The Tick & Arthur #1
by Sean Wang and Mike Baker

Hey everybody! A new Tick comic! Not only a new comic, but it's a new ongoing series! Spoon!

Everybody here at DFFQI loves the Tick. Steve Pause's room is full of the toys perched on ever-vigilant guard on top of shelves. But I'm pretty sure I'm the only one to get this new one.

It's simply fabulous, presented on thick paper, in black and white, with no ads. $3.50, which is a hell of a lot to pay for a B&W, 32-pager, but the sting in the wallet is soon calmed by the utter hilarity contianed within.

The story concerns The Tick and Arthur returning to The City, but there return is interrupted by a run to the hospital. See, a mental institution got blowed up real good, and all of the Tick's illustrious baddies are laid up in the very same hospital. But The Tick doesn't know this. He only finds out when Barry, the other Tick who's still pretty mad about losing the title to our hero, attacks him.

The subplot involves jobless ninjas. What more needs to be said?

The whole reason I stopped buying comics about four years ago was because I simply didn't have enough money to keep up with comics and music. And now, when I got back into it, I was really happy I was able to strike a balance between most of my money(records), and some of my money (The Invisibles and Madman Adventures). Time to start allocatin' new funds, because this comic is definitely one of my regulars now. (New England Comics)

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Michael Keegan
6.15.1999