American History books teach us that the first primate sent into space by the Americans was a chimp named Ham who splashed down to earth and lived his days at a zoo. Well, those books lied as the Tick will soon find out.
This issue begins with the Tick being sent back to earth after the intergalactic contest of champions. Only, the aliens that abducted the Tick forgot to account for earth's rotation and transports our hero into the void of space. Thankfully, the Tick is picked up by a passing ship that houses the famed chimpanzee Ham, whose been granted a superior intellect thanks to gamma radiations that led the primate's ship astray. (In order to keep ahead of the space race, the Americans faked another launch with a Ham duplicate.)
Spending decades in outer space alone has made Ham a little crazy, not to mention paranoid. First he thinks the Tick has been sent by NASA to finally put him away. But after finding the Tick to be nothing more than a little looney himself, the primate astronaut agrees to return Tick back to earth or will he? The answer will leave you in stitches unless you're an attorney for Marvel- then you might be running to your local courthouse to file suit for copyright infringement.
Issue 3 is just as clever and funny as the previous two issues. But the big reveal at the end of this issue leaves me thinking that the writers tore a giant page out of Marvel's playbook. Still, this is better than most stuff that was published by the House of Ideas when this work was published back in the early 90s.
Worth Consuming
Rating: 8 out of 10 stars.
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