(June 2017)
New England Comics,
2011 Series
- Price
- 0.00 FREE
- Pages
- 32
- On-sale Date
- 2017-05-06
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Rated A All Ages
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- New England Comics Press
- Brand
-
NEC New England Comics Press
- Barcode
- 689466067439 00601
- Editing
- Bob Polio (art director); George Suarez (editor); Ralph Blaser (assistant editor)
Issue Notes
New Stories!
The Tick / cover / 1 page
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- The Tick; Arthur; The Terror; Chainsaw Vigilante; Red Scare; Multiple Santas; Tunn-La
Introduction
foreword, introduction, preface, afterword / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Welcome to the 2017 edition of The Tick Free Comic Book Day comic book!
Happy Birthday Tick!
The Tick / comic story / 15 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Happy birthday, dear Julie...
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- The Tick; Arthur; The Terror; Rubber Ducky; Bumbling Bee; Caped Cod; Four-Legged Man; Portuguese Man-o-War; Man-Eating Cow; Julie
- Synopsis
- The Tick realizes he's never had a birthday so throws a party for all of his super hero pals - plus his enemies so that he can enjoy a birthday brawl.
Civic Duty
The Tick / comic story / 14 pages
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Here's the question on everyone's mind...
- Genre
- humor; satire-parody; superhero
- Characters
- The Tick; Arthur; Rubber Ducky; Bumbling Bee; Portuguese Man-o-War (dream); Apocrypha (dream); Running Guy (dream); Caped Cod (dream); Red Scare; Kurt Bombast; Capricious Blue; Sally; Tunn-La
- Synopsis
- The Tick and Arthur watch a presidential debate between Kurt Bombast, Capricious Blue and the Red Scare. Bombast proposes ridiculous ideas such as super-villains paying for an expensive new prison, Capricious is wishy-washy and Red Scare simply doesn't want to be recognized as a super-villain. Tunn-La attempts to control the minds of the candidates as part of an admittedly "unnecessarily complicated plan" to control the USA but the Tick wrecks Tunn-La's mind control machine.
- Keywords
- Great Wall of China
Indexer Notes
Obvious satire of the 2016 US Presidential election. The Tick's dream sequence satirizes the presidencies of George Washington, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Bill Clinton and Gerald Ford.
Story also contains references to the Ramones, the Beatles' 'Helter Skelter' and the 2006 film version of 'The Wicker Man.' Kids love Wicker Man references!
Editing
Related Scans
Series Information
Table of Contents
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0.
New Stories!
The Tick -
1.
Introduction
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2.
Happy Birthday Tick!
The Tick -
3.
Civic Duty
The Tick -
4.
[The Tick Complete Works Collections!]
This issue was modified by
- Katie
- Michael Hoskin
- Keith Alan Morgan
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