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Intro
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Plug for Perfect Package Podcast – Chad & Dave each get 5 picks to make the perfect… whatever the topic is – Anthony will be guesting on an upcoming episode
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Background (3:40)
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The Tick created by Ben Edlund in New England Comics Newsletter #14 (July/August 1986) – originally the newsletter mascot, got his own comic series in 1988
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A nigh invulnerable superhero who escapes from a mental institution in his debut, he cannot remember anything from his life before becoming the Tick
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Lives in the City, where absurd heroes and villains abound
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Takes a job at the Weekly World Planet newspaper, working alongside Clark Oppenheimer, aka the Caped Wonder, a Superman pastiche
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One of his allies and his eventual best friend is Arthur, an accountant in a moth suit
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Oftentimes fun & oblivious, although he can get serious if the situation arises – when his ally Oedipus was stabbed, he attacked the ninjas responsible, and single-handedly destroyed their lair
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Later revealed that at one point, he was married but separated
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Takes a laissez-faire attitude towards discovering his past – Arthur seems more intrigued by it than he does
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Adapted once in animation and twice in live-action – most of the characters change, except for Arthur and Tick
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Issues (10:40)
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Amnesia about pre-superhero life
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Attachment to Arthur (18:45)
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Childlike Nature in an adult world (23:49)
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Break (36:13)
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Plugs for Varmints & I Never Saw That, plus Cullen Bunn
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Treatment (37:40)
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In-universe
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Out of universe
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Skit (45:04)
- Ending (50:13)
- Next episodes – Abe Sapien, Yorick Brown, Alfred Pennyworth
References:
- Cullen Bunn interview – Anthony (04:15)
- TV Tropes – Nigh Invulnerable – Anthony (06:00)
- Quantum Leap – Doc (15:45)
- Joker episode – Doc (21:25)
- The Odd Couple – Doc/Anthony (24:33)
- “Eyes of a Child” – Anthony (26:29)
- Meet Joe Black – Doc (30:55)
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