The Tick #6 Page 7 (Ben Edlund)
Artists: Ben Edlund (Penciller) , Dave Garcia (Inker)
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DescriptionAn early page from The Tick comics first series by creator Ben Edlund. It features one of my favorite scenes. The Tick visits Arthur’s apartment for the first time and thinks it's his secret lair. This was first published back in 1989 and reprinted in The Tick: The Naked City, The Tick Omnibus #1 and it was printed as Chroma-Tick #6. Some of the following tidbits taken from an article from decider.com:If you’ve followed the big blue arachnid from one adaptation to the next over the last few decades, then you’ve seen the same joke repeated in every single pilot of every single Tick TV show. It doesn’t matter if it’s a live-action series or a cartoon, if it’s The Tick, then this joke is there. Before making the jump to the small screen, this gag first appeared in the pages of 1989’s The Tick #6 (this is one of the pages in particular). Edlund’s soon-to-be-repeated gag goes like this: Arthur, after teaming up with the Tick, lets the mighty crimefighter into his rundown bachelor pad. The Tick, assuming that all the boring furniture is really a cover for a superhero lair, starts flipping over furniture and wrecking coat hooks in a search for the secret trigger. In the comic, he rips a coat hook off the wall, goes for a lamp (Arthur saves it), and then asks what the couch turns into. Arthur shouts, “It turns into a bed!” The Tick flips it over anyway. When the Tick jumped into the world of animation in 1994, the joke followed. In “The Tick vs. the Idea Men,” written by Edlund and Richard Liebmann-Smith, the same thing happens almost word for word as in the original comic. The Tick rips a coat hook off the wall, goes for a lamp, and then tries to flip over Arthur’s couch. And just like in the comic, the Tick scolds Arthur for not having his lair filled with lair-y things. When The Tick returned as a live-action sitcom in 2001, the joke was repeated again in another pilot written by Edlund. In this iteration, the Tick (Patrick Warburton) follows Arthur home to his apartment and knocks the door down to let himself in. The Tick again says “It looks just like an apartment!” and then begins to wreak havoc. He starts to hunt for the trigger, ripping a light off of the wall and then flipping over Arthur’s sofa. One more time, the Tick asks what it turns into, and Arthur says, “It turns into a bed!” We’re not done yet! The new Tick, which is now, of course uses the sequence one more time. In an episode written by Edlund, Arthur (Griffin Newman) wakes up to find the Tick (Peter Serafinowicz) in bed with him, and then the hero starts strolling through Arthur’s “HQ.” He finds a coat hook and asks Arthur if it’s his “secret trigger.” He rips it off the wall. Arthur runs behind him, begging him to not touch anything. This version doesn’t have the couch gag, as Arthur’s sparse apartment doesn’t have a couch in it. Instead, the Tick obsesses over Arthur’s “crime lab” (a bunch of newspapers taped to the wall) and throws a candle stick and a floor lamp around while looking for the secret lair switch. There’s a reason why Edlund has repeated this joke three times since first writing it back in 1989: it works. Not only is it hilarious (watching the Tick use his super strength to casually destroy property is always a delight), but it sums up Arthur and the Tick’s world views in just a few lines. In that way, this one scene is absolutely as pivotal to the Tick as the Waynes being murdered or Krypton blowing up. And in this piece of superhero lore, the only thing that gets hurt is Arthur’s apartment. Social/Sharing |
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James Sharland
Member Since 2006
Posted on 4/6/2008
SPOOOOOOOON!!!!! Someone needs to let Ben know that the comic industry needs him back.
Doctor Fantastic
Member Since 2007
Posted on 4/19/2008
Edlund remains one of my favoritest creators ever. He wrote some episodes of The Venture Bros. Season 2. . . a match made in heaven if you ask me!
* From The Land Beyond 
Member Since 2006
Posted on 4/19/2008
Wow! I had no idea he was writing for Venture Bros! No wonder why we love the Venture Bros so much. Thanks for the knowledge :)
Daniel Storm
Member Since 2008
Posted on 8/22/2008
Naughty spawn, you face The Tick! This is a pretty funny page. If you decide to sell it, let me know. Do you know of anyone who has any pages for sale, besides the one up on ebay right now?
Peter Marino
Member Since 2010
Posted on 3/2/2012
Awesome tick page! one of the few times the cartoon and the comic intersect.
Earl Hamilton
Member Since 2009
Posted on 3/22/2019
THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO OWN A PAGE LIKE THIS!! HUGE CONGRATS!
* From The Land Beyond
Member Since 2006
Posted on 3/22/2019
Earl Hamilton wrote:
THIS IS SO AWESOME!!!!! I WOULD LOVE TO OWN A PAGE LIKE THIS!! HUGE CONGRATS!
Thanks bud!
William Lawson
Member Since 2015
Posted on 10/10/2024
Beautiful page, content and images by a legend. Love this to no end, it gives me 'spoon' ... ha GREAT ADD!!
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