The Tick cartoon was a magical anomaly when it debuted. The show took a main character that writer Ben Edlund created to satirize mainstream superhero tropes and transplanted him to television ...

I spent many a Saturday morning of the middle 1990s badly hungover, watching cartoons on television. Because of this, I fell in love—as I struggled to swallow dry toast—with an animated ...

Hoping to replicate the success of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Fox approached Edlund to make a cartoon series out of the Tick, resulting in the cult hit that ran for 36 episodes from 1994 to 1996.