>More resistant to damage than Superman or Goku>Completely fearless because he knows he cannot be killed by anything>Balanced by the fact that he is an idiot who is easily tricked or mislead, sometimes by himselfThis is actually genius.
He is near-invulnerable for sure, but like Superman and Goku he is weak of mind.
>>153919073That's the Doctor Manhattan deal. He's ultra powerful, but too weak-willed to really do anything about it. He's commanded by everyone else, including his future self.
>>153919073I am still thinking about a Tick x One Punch Man crossover comic where Arthur gains "monster-ification". Any volunteers wanna get sued with me?
>>153921114not familiar enough with, or interested in OPM, otherwise totes.>>153919073damage resistant, sure, but both Goku and Superman completely 'mog' him, as the young people say, in mobility. All you have to do is hit Tick hard enough and he's gone. Out of your hair for the amount of time it takes him to flag a taxi to get back to you. And if you happened to have taken his arms with a crazy arm-taking machine? Well, now what's he gonna flag the taxi with?
>>153919073blue looks good on him you hafta admit
>>153921114Problem with that is Saitama isn't an idiot. He's at worst average intelligence with maybe some hints of autism.
>>153922833yeah if anything he'd hang out with Sewer Urchin>Definitely strong, yeahhh he's got a low number, definitely low number of times he has ta hit ya.
>>153919073>venture bros is overMaybe Ben can get Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer back and work on a new Tick cartoon series aimed at adults (not in the gross out /sex joke / hyper violent sense)
>>153919073>one cartoon series>two live action seriesno chainsaw vigilante, no man eating cow, no Paul the samurai, no Oedipus , no ninja worldjeez
>>153923409I would watch the FUCK out of a new Tick show.The trouble is, is there anything left to really say about the cape genre? the Amazon series did a wonderful job jamming its elbow gently into the ribs of big-budget live action films, but those have become a fucking dumpster fire, so at this point it'd be punching down. At best, it could REconstruct, but that's not really what The Tick is for, nor what Publick and Hammer specialize in. I mean kind of. They reconstruct a ~little.~in any case, the big question is, would Townie come back as the Tick, or would Peter continue? Like, obviously he's gonna be IN the show regardless. He's too versatile. he can do too many hilarious character voices not to be.
>>153921114That'd be great, I immediately thought about a crossover with OPM when I saw the thread.
>>153923440Man-eating Cow was in the cartoon, and fought offscreen in the sitcom for budget reasons.And while the Amazon series may not have had Oedipus, it did have a blinded guy with issues, so.. that's at least partial credit.
>>153919134>Weak of mindIntellectualism is only one aspect of mind. The Tick successfully escaped the world's most comfortable chair. His willpower and mental fortitude are staggering.
>>153923513Amazon's Tick had Overkill who was sorta Chainsaw Vigilante Superian was basically Clark Oppenheimer
>>153919134>near -invulnerable He's nigh invulnerable
>>153923440I'd like to see Chairface in live action
>>153923537True. He's got a fucking hard-on for justice that overpowers anything else. Still, would Ginyu be able to body-swap him with the greatest of ease? absolutely.>>153923580Yeah they have a lot of stand-ins for whatever each version can't use.and at least the game of the cartoon had Paul the Samurai and 'Night of a Million Zillion Ninjas' I mean you can't fault them there.>>153923617Now how the hell would that work, anon. be reasonable.
>>153919073Don't forget that he can breathe in Outer Space without a Spacesuit as well
>>153923629It’s not the body that makes the hero it’s the spirit and buddy my spirit is telling me that my body is a tool for Justice weather you like it or not, congrats you’re the tick now and I’ll do my best to make make this Ginyu force a tool for good like the screwdriver of lady Liberty to tighten the screws of mental cases till there law abiding citizens and hey look at that I can fly now?! A flying tick Ha it’s absurd yet wonderful.
>"Remember these words: SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!!!!"
>>153923794This was a little punctuation away from a fucking perfect bit of Tick speak.
>>153923810they came so close..
>>153919073The Tick is also balanced around the fact that the villains re just as inept as him and their evil plans are liable to be robbing a grocery store of all the vegetables or sending Arthur threatening letters, or just showing up in public and yelling, rather than anything actually villainous.
>>153923794you dropped these: ,,.,,…and some capital letters, too
>>153923926>You dropped these: ,,.,,…and some capital letters, too.
>>153923892yeah you can really see how the Venture Bros guys cut their teeth.They wanted to see if such ridiculous villains could exist but in a more grounded world. And they managed to come up with some hilarious and believable concepts. Like these are basically just rich assholes with an axe to grind and a really flamboyant way of expressing themselves, who are tolerated by governments and law enforcement because it's better than the alternative, where they just dress regular and shoot normal bullets at random people.
>>153919073Yes, The Tick is the best cape spoof conceived. I thought that was already in agreement, no?
>>153925040There was a Tick thread the other day and someone mentioned that Amazon dropped the Tick to make the Boys. You can imagine what happened next.
>>153925160did they seriouslyI thought the boys was a lot older
>>153923601>He's nigh invulnerablepardon my poor vocabulary
>>153925160>>153925212The Tick is a much older property, and The Boys is early aughts.
>>153925040I mean, Venture Bros. is still part of the conversation, but you wouldn't have Venture Bros. without The Tick so.There's also stuff that could potentially be considered parodies like TMNT. And non-/co/ properties like One Punch Man.
>>153925397All correct, but The Boys and Invincible are edgy-er.
>>153925382reading comprehension, my boy.the AMAZON the Tick series.I thought The Boys was older than that.
>Death. The eternal blink. The capricious dance of Now Ya Stop Movin' Forever. Well contrary to popular belief, death isn't just for dead people. It can happen to anyone. I know, it's news to me too. And it's not just people either, it's all kinds of stuff. Horses, fiddler crabs. Did you know that even a potato... can die?
>>153925405Invincible is a lot more than edge, and it's actually impressive how long it avoided being woke. Weird thing to do, only to just drop it like a sack of hammers, but that was their modus. Real shame.>>153925424ahhhh so great
>>153925212Yeah. They had already committed to season 2 of the Tick when the rights to the Boys became available and with Seth Rogen and the creator of Supernatural backing it they dropped the Tick and gave the Boys 5 seasons upfront. Keep in mind Bezos wanted to drop a fuck ton of money on a fantasy series to compete with Game of Thrones so his people were really cautious with their budget. So basically Seth Rogen and Rings of Power killed the Tick.
>>153919073>Will never be on MeTV Toons due to being own by Disney and Disney sees MeTV Toons as "Eating into Disney+ profits" so nothing they own will ever be on MeTV Toons.>Dispite the fact that MeTV Toons asked Disney for cel-era Simpsons, Futurama (pre Hulu) and King of The Hill (pre-Hulu) and not any of the Saban stuff.>They knew damn well that the Marvel stuff (Fantastic Four'67 and The Thing'79) , Muppits and Star Wars (Ewoks: The Animated Series, Genndy's Clone Wars) was out of the question and real Disney (Mickey, Donald, Goofy, ect.) was "*points gun*DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT*points gun*" far in advance so they only asked for The Simpsons, Futurama and King of the Hill as those are the safest Fox adult shows Disney has.
>>153923478>The trouble is, is there anything left to really say about the cape genre?Night of a million-zillion ninja?
>>153925480aw man.>>153925534heh, maybe so.
>>153925502MeTV Toons is doing all the heavy lifting keeping classic toons alive in the zeitgiest. So fuck Disney.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s949t4UZsJY
>>153925617I so wish I could embed videos on this browser without youtube cunting it up. i don't want to watch this normally and then get 90 "the tick but ___" videos recommended to me.
>>153919073>Completely fearless because he knows he cannot be killed by anythingIncorrect. He's fearless because he's a gosh darn hero and heroes don't let fear get in the way of saving the city.
>you'll never have a comfy slightly crazy woman who loves you and wants to marry youAlso it's bit of a shame that these Tick threads only appeared becausr of YouTube
>>153926716eh? what happened on youtube
I tried rewatching the cartoon many years ago, and it was one of several cartoons that made me realize I got no enjoyment from cartoons anymore.
>>153926744I got LESS enjoyment from it than I did as a kid, but only because it was a bit.. yknow, saturday morning. You can tell they were being held back. You have to remember how special it was at the time.I still laughed, and then I rewatched the sitcom, and laughed (except the last episode), and then I rewatched the amazon series, and I laughed my pants. Just gutted that there isn't any more.
>>153926716If Die Fledermaus was rich enough to enjoy fine furniture and detest inferior quality woodwork then how come he spends most of his time hanging out at a diner?
>>153926725Algorithm pushed The Tick towards everyone
>>153926981>to enjoy fine furniture and detest inferior quality woodworkThis implies taste, not necessarily money.. But at any rate, he's clearly there because it's a superhero hangout.
>>153926981Deep down he knows he is a Shitty hero
>>153927127>>153927152Come to think of it, Sewer Urchin is also super rich. Maybe the diner's coffee is just that good.
>>153927167Definitely good
FIRE ME /CO/!
>>153926981He's in it for the lifestyle. Of course he's going to gravitate to where all the other capes hang out.
>>153923537His will is unbending, he was willing to part with that manly mustache.
>>153923892Did you forgot the Breadmaster almost smothering the city under a giant bread?
>>153927127Pretty sure he has a mansion on the sewers.
>A struggle as old as time. But with a beat you can dance to. And as the sun rises on a new day in the city, so rises a new hero. A precious balloon of hope girding his loins, making ready for the fight. He may be on the compact side as heroes go, but that's just the way destiny crumbles her cookies. It's not supposed to be easy. It's not supposed to be comfortable. It's supposed to be dangerous. And interesting. That's the hero's journey. That's why they get up in the morning. To go mano a monomyth with the darkness. To win the elixir and save the world, because villainy is real. It has guns and scars and tattoos, and it's licensed to drive. It wants nothing but to murder and take, and it's coming for them all. So two new avengers take their place on the front line. They will face evil with a song of battle in their hearts. Destiny's got her hand way, way up in their puppets. It's an unpleasant tingling. The deepest of wedgies. And its only reward is... drama!>[villain enters and shoots Arthur point blank]>New plan...
>>153919073>Tick thread>My youtube frontpage has been feeding me random tick clips from over a decade ago for the pat few days>This one youtube channel has been uploading small 2-8min videos of clips from the tick that are just all the scenes one character has >He's been doing this everyday for over a week because for some reason youtube promoted his video&channel now>Every video is getting over 5k views to 10k views >Once again all thats uploaded is mostly just X villians screen time and people in the comments posting how the tick was so based absolutely ahead of its time and how funny/witty the show was how it sucks we have never gotten a new tick series and how the comic rarely gets new stuff all we have gotten is a bad fox show that thankfully died really quickly>But worse of all an amazon series where the creator is involved with everything. But it completely misses the fucking point of the series and of the ticks character in general which is fucking insane. Considering how involved the creator is. Like this guy ok'd the Tick being played by a DYEL barely tall guy, wearing a super fucking cringe muscle prosthetic body suit. >Like you are going to add a bunch of latex muscles onto the guy. And you don't even make him look like some bodybuilder/powerlifter he looks tiny you could have gotten an actor that is big&bulky from WWE if you didnt want to get someone that never acted but is huge as fuck.>You could have got some big dude thats 6'4+ 300 lb+ and added latex muscles onto him so he looks just like the tick in the comic/cartoon but no>The writing is fucking god awful and has none of the charm/wit/surrealism/overall funny stupid random shit the tick is known for >The tick is cursed we will never get a modern "adult animated Tick.>EVEN THO VENTURE BROS WAS INSANELY POPULAR AND IS LITERALLY THE TICK WITHOUT THE TICK VENTURE BROS COULD HAVE TAKEN PLACE IN THE SAME WORLD AS THE TICK>VENTURE BROS EVEN HAD FUCKING STAFF THAT WORKED ON THE CARTOON
>>153925480Every day, a new reason to hate Seth Rogan
>>153925872Use Freetube as a sandbox for stuff like that
>>153925421That's a strange thing to assume too. You thought they made The Tick Amazon show WHILE The Boys was going?
>>153929568Tl;dr The world is sick of super hero capeshit faggotree this is why the boys got popular. People knew with the TV show that yeah they would have to change a lot of shit. To get it made for TV, even if it was streaming, the boys was 2edgy4me even in the late 00's standards. But it became le shit on trump show and turned into a cringefest.Now is the time to make a Tick "adult" animation BECAUSE ITS THE FUCKING TICK animation wise it not like there is massive battles/fighting 247 the comic barely has huge scenes. So animating it wouldn't be difficult and costly, what makes the Tick so great is its writing this is a show where the artists, storyboard artists and animators come up with ideas&plot. But you have writers bang out the script this is another pro, by getting people not from (((pedowood))) to work on the show. By not haivng people who take pride in being(((pedowood))) writers to help write the show. It will be funny,witty&etc no matter what there will no need to inject American politics into the show and every fucking episode because all the writers have TDS and need to shove this shit into everything >(even tho even normals are getting sick of this and international people do not give a fuck anymore talking about trump 247 is beyond mentally ill its going to be 12 years what the fuck is wrong with you people this has turned into a literal honest to god REAL mental illness TDS is no longer a meme the medical community has been talking about it a lot lately) Having artists build the foundation of the show and writers build up from that the two of them working together. To create something completely solid is how shit should be fucking done. The Tick could absolutely be the show to nail out a new modern standard in both adult animation as well as writing for "adult" shows not just animation but just in general.We need the tick more than ever People need to take it easy~Trump derangement syndrome is scary as fuck srsly
>>153925434They're both more than edge.
>>153919073Is this comic actually good? The only feedback I really see is from obnoxious wholesomefags.
>>153926981wants to pick up chicks, and the classy chicks have all said no
>>153927058how is that a thing you would ever like acknowledge>>153929277yeah but the prices are better down there. definitely better.
>>153929568your taste is terrible>>153929747freetube, eh? I'm not gonna retain that..>>153929850or over, or whatever.>>153933576it's pretty fuckin clever.
my man Peter Scarafiddlewitch did an amazing job. I loved how they recognized the costume kinda sucked, so they had him shed his skin and get a new, better one, and then refuse to acknowledge it. but then Arthur finds the pieces of it..
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>>153919073Genius concept? hardly.I do not hate The Tick...but I really don't enjoy the whole happy-go-lucky dumb ass thing. The Tick, Darkwing Duck, Inspector Gadget. all things exposed to plenty as a kid and all eschew. I hate these guys that just bumble-fucks their way into success, and or usually as a result of someone else's doing. Tick is a lesser of these evils but regardless - every single character in The Tick be them a hero or villain are like all on the same spectrum of infantile bumbling idiots. it gets old fast to me.
>>153937993well I'm with you on the cartoonier examples for sure. but the Tick is just an exaggeration of the blockheaded boyscout hero archetype. He's a parody, and (this is important) he's the only one in his setting who's like that.Everyone Darkwing fights is goofy as shit, everyone in MAD is incompetent and bumbling enough that a fucking dog can take them out and Gadget can claim credit every week. Tick villains are eccentric, but at least they're taking things somewhat seriously (sometimes way TOO seriously, like... how to properly make bread, or defacing the moon with your name). and the other heroes, while quirky, have human motivations and aren't just walking speech factories. It works.
>>153937993calm down Tick... you're to hard on yourself
>Hey, teach me more of those yiddish words, chum!>Why?>Well I have a lot to catch up on, I only just found out we're Jewish!>Tick, WE'RE not Jewish. I'm Jewish, Dot is Jewish. You're... I don't know, you're.. blueish.>.... Sha-lommmmm, sha-LOMMmmm...
>>153938804lol
>>153938811the Tick is such a pure soul. He knows he belongs by his sidekick's side. Like fuckin.. Ruth to Naomi.I loved how Doc and Jackson borrowed the bit about Tick yanking Arthur's candelabra off the wall because "hey if I crank this, will it open up your secret lair?", but instead of an exasperated Arthur, it was Doctor Orpheus "Will it-" "drip wax on my carpet? yes."
>>153938876I feel like Venture Bros inherited kind of a lot of this dna
>>153938956oh shit, Tank Top was in the OSI. that was a straight-up lift. awesome.and i know Edlund wrote exaclty one VB episode, and it's so seamless that you'd never know which one
>>153938956I'd be like "you know you're wearing a robe, right?" and then I'd lose the case.
>still no US DVD set with no episodes missing
>>153939553seriously? weird. well it's all ripped online, but still
>>153939632The complete rips are of the PAL set, and it is a bad transfer, direct NTSC > PAL conversion (you never do that). Many frames have baked in interlacing artifacts.
>>153939770that's true of most classic cartoons, isn't it?hell even Futurama is hard to find without the PAL pitch-up for the first season
>>153939830Oh no anon, you are totally off topic here. Speedups in the soundtrack are not an issue (especially when the studio has the proper software to keep the pitch). I am talking about the damage done to frames, permanent damage.
I own the 2011 DVDs of Birdy the Mighty DECODE, and that release has perfect progressive frames.
>>153929722It has to be a supernatural ability, he is always there to ruin something you would love to see.
>>153940002er.. well yeah, that is distracting, too. but.. for western cartoons like who gives a shit, the art is not what we're here for.
>>153940258>but.. for western cartoons like who gives a shit, the art is not what we're here for>art and clean frames are not important in western cartoons
>>153919073Tick has the invulnerability of Superman, but with the weakness of Goku. If you squeeze his antenna he's useless.
>>153940373obviously I didn't mean shit animated by TMS>>153940465true. But weirdly nobody ever seems to go for that.
I think making Arthur merely kind of pudgy was a smart change from the comics where he looks like he'd be winded running from one side of a room to the other, let alone flapping his arms hard enough to fly with wings attached.
>>153940481Mook did those first 4 Scooby-Doo DTVs, TMS never did anything for Hanna Barbera other then some Cartoon Network Japan bumpers.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3r5Oxe1qHA
>>153940481I dont think a lot of the characters know.
WOO!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNyVo8v7DYE
>>153940954you know 100% what I meant and you nitpicked anyway
>>153927058Oh good it's not just me
>>153919073Real autistic question:If the writers new about the water bear, would they have named him after those little fuckers instead of the tick?
>>153943660Given the delightfully unPC nature of the original comic, I guarantee Edlund would have gleefully called him THE TARDIGRADE on account of the 'tard' in it.
HOHOHOHOHO
>>153943861Jim Cummings was in rare form in that one.
I've always avoided the Tick but I'll try it. Maybe because He seemed like Johnny Bravo in a tick suit.
>>153944270>Johnny Bravo in a tick suitTick if he was after>POOOON
>>153944270He isn't, but there is a kinda 'Johnny Bravo in a bat suit' character in the original cartoon and (even better) in the sitcom. Both of them are hilarious.the Tick is a parody of Dudley Doo-right type superheroes, and more broadly, just a satire of capeshit in general. His sidekick is a fucking accountant who has just been wearing a costume to work for a while because, yknow, 'dress for the job you want, not the job you have' until he gets fired for it. He's just a pudgy, neurotic little Rick Moranis type, but he balances the Tick out perfectly.>>153944330kek
>>153938956Jackson Publick basically wrote the last few issues of the Tick comic. (when Tick fights the evil New York Tick and gets all his stuff).Its relatively close to the last seasons of Venture Bros where Rusty gets his twin brothers stuff and lives in New York (thats full of Super hero types).
>>153943861There is something beautiful about those dark city buildings. I wonder if there is a name for cityscapes drawn this way.
>>153944991Lemme know when you find the name for it
>>153929747>>153936072I use YTBlock. I've blocked so much shit since I've installed it.>>153939004Brickfrog was mentioned in the Fox series before Venture Bros.
>>153919134Superman and Goku are not weak of mind.
I never watched The Tick because a part of me worried I wasn't cultured or intelligent enough to enjoy it. But I enjoyed Venture Bros. despite that, so I guess I have nothing to worry about.
>>153927058Every once in a while it feels like the algorithm just gets psychotically fixated on something and you get flooded videos of that for weeks. It's been Red Dwarf for me this week. Great show, but seems like it just started popping up therfe out of nowhere.
