With all the bitterness of the election and ISIS and hurricanes and gas shortages and scary-ass clowns, you need something to take the edge off. For me, it’s humorous comic books and nothing gets any zanier than the Tick. So for a couple of days last week, I took advantage of my stash of Tick comics and let the stress of the world melt away a bit.
First on my list was this year’s Free Comic Book Day offering. Here, the barriers between dimensions is wearing thin. So thin, that Ticks from other timelines and realities are coming over to our world. This is causes such a crisis that even the dreaded Thrakkorzog, the supposed one-day supreme emperor of the earth wants nothing to do with our universe and hightails it to places unknown.
Then in a follow-up story, a Tick from a universe set in film noir, investigates the strange new world he has been thrust into. This yarn was funny, but it ended in such a way that I don’t think the multiple Ticks storyline is quite over. But, there’s nothing like a blurb saying to stay tune for a new Tick miniseries or anything like that.
There was also a short story involving Tick and Arthur and it was okay but not memorable. No, really, I don’t remember anything about it only that it was there at the end of this comic. Period.
I had some laughs in the first adventure but with the next two adventures, the quality of storytelling got less and less. Same with the art. It got so bad, that I actually forget how this book ended.
Rating: 6 out of 10 stars.
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