He graduated to having his own comic book, moving to FOX in 1994 with an animated series that ran for three LOL-filled seasons that were hailed as ‘the first great lampooning of the superhero genre’ by IGN (and garnering its own cult following in the process). Starting life as a humble mascot for a comics newsletter, The Tick was destined for greater things. To strike terror into the hearts of evil-doers everywhere, The Tick utters his battle cry – ‘SPOON!’ Gif via Kuropop on DeviantartĬreated in 1986 by cartoonist, screen-writer and producer Ben Edlund when he was just 18 years old, The Tick was a spoof on superheroes - a satirical, absurdist, goofy unabashedly silly spoof. The sterling silver ladle of justice, pouring his creamy foam over the freshly-picked strawberries of crime. A hero who will go mano-a-monomyth with the darkness.
And if the dark TV shows are beginning to bug you too, he is the bug that’ll make it go away. While everyone else is feeling blue, he is blue. Netflix’s Marvel’s Jessica Jones was so dark, I had to turn up the brightness of my computer screen.īut there is hope. Grimdark (yup, it’s a real word).Įver since Batman went overboard with the gritty undertones and Christopher Nolan put the dark in the Dark Knight to critical and commercial acclaim, superhero movies and shows have been trying to out-dark and out-brood each other to see who can bring the most pathos to the poor meta-human superhero’s human condition with a generous garnishing of existential crises.
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