Amazon's The Tick (Spoilers)
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The next 5 episodes of The Tick following last year's pilot went up on Amazon today. The suit is better, there's more gags, but it still has the more developed stories and characters that you'd expect from Edlund in 2017.
A couple of things I really like is how Dot and Ms. Lint have stories we follow through too (and a fourth character introduced later) rather than just following Arthur's story. And I really like this version of The Terror, who loves super villainy just as much as The Tick loves super heroics.
If you miss the high weirdness of earlier Tick incarnations, it slowly gets weirder and weirder as it goes along.
A couple of things I really like is how Dot and Ms. Lint have stories we follow through too (and a fourth character introduced later) rather than just following Arthur's story. And I really like this version of The Terror, who loves super villainy just as much as The Tick loves super heroics.
If you miss the high weirdness of earlier Tick incarnations, it slowly gets weirder and weirder as it goes along.
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Not sure if I like this more than the cartoon yet, but I definitely like it more than the previous live-action show.
The key to its appeal for me is that it feels like the least cynical version of the concept.
For example, the Superman stand-in Superian doesn't come across like The Caped Wonder in the comics, nor The Immortal & The Champion in the Warburton series. He's there because they need a Superman character in the story, not to belittle or parody Superhman.
Likewise Overkill is much more sympathetic than the cartoonish Big Shot as Punisher equivalents go.
I agree that Episode 4 is where the slow burn finally lights the fuse of the show's weirdness, as we get all the elements coming together as well as seeing some of the superpowered oddness that is on the periphery of the character's lives.
I haven't really seen enough of Overkill yet to cast judgment on him.
I'm really liking the the show.
That started with the way they very clearly framed the early material to make it look like The Tick may just be in Arthur's head, and then there were the things like the flashbacks to Arthur at the cafe and some of the other things.
I'd recommend the currently airing My Hero Academia, which this version of The Tick reminded me of. More in tone than plot, but there are lines you can draw between The Terror and the current arch-villain in MHA.