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The Tick Color Series #2
The Tick: Color Series 2
256 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published February 1, 2010
About the author
Clay Griffith
101 books517 followersClay and Susan Griffith are the authors of THE FLASH: THE HAUNTING OF BARRY ALLEN and ARROW: A GENERATION OF VIPERS, as well as the creators of the VAMPIRE EMPIRE series and authors of the CROWN & KEY trilogy.
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Clay & Susan Griffith are a married couple who have written and published together for more than a decade. Their credits not only include two novels for Bantam Doubleday Dell in the mid-1990s and another novel for Pinnacle Entertainment Group in 2002 but also numerous short stories published in many anthologies, some featuring noted genre characters like Kolchak the Night Stalker and The Phantom. They've also written scripts for television and published graphic novels.
"Vampire Empire is transforming genre fiction." Paul Goat Allen, B&N Explorations.
If you're on Facebook, please think about going to www.facebook.com/vampireempire and clicking LIKE. If you done it already...Thank you.
Clay & Susan Griffith are a married couple who have written and published together for more than a decade. Their credits not only include two novels for Bantam Doubleday Dell in the mid-1990s and another novel for Pinnacle Entertainment Group in 2002 but also numerous short stories published in many anthologies, some featuring noted genre characters like Kolchak the Night Stalker and The Phantom. They've also written scripts for television and published graphic novels.
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February 19, 2024
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These Tick comics are always strange and fun!
These Tick comics are always strange and fun!
May 13, 2016
The previous Tick Color volume was a disappointment as most of the issues seemed focus seemed be on the Ticks one-note and somewhat unlikable team rather than on the Tick and Arthur. The second volume is written entirely by Clay and Susan Griffith who put the focus squarely back where it belongs.
The books begins with the six issue, "Days of Drama" miniseries which immediately ships Arthur and all the Tick's team off to Blissville where life for a hero is easy. The Tick has to soldier alone against the city's villains until a mentor comes to help him achieve success. Meanwhile Arthur adjusts to life as a hero in a town where supervillain fights are pre-scheduled and everything's beautiful or is it. This is probably the most focused Storyline in Tick history, its. has a lot of humor, but does respect the Tick and Arthur as characters. The result is a very strong enjoyable comic arc that's very well written.
Next up is a three Issue "X-Mas Trilogy" that has the Tick wanting to put on a Christmas Pageant and has to join forces with such arch-rivals as Chairface Chippendale and the Terror to pull off it, though of course, ulterior are involved. The story is a fun read and manages to work its multiple characters in well. The pageant idea with its cornucopia of crazy idea kind of reminds me of the Charlie Brown Christmas special. Overall, a nice story though it's no days of Drama.
Finally is a single issue Comic Con special which finds the Tick at Comic Con along with his team who are jealous and want to dump the Tick from their team but need to enlist the help of Arthur. The story is funny, heart warming, and the end result of the team's actions is a great moment that made me very happy as a fan.
Overall, this is a thoroughly modern series of comics that capture what's fun about the Tick and is probably the most consistently good volume of Tick stories since Ben Edlund.
The books begins with the six issue, "Days of Drama" miniseries which immediately ships Arthur and all the Tick's team off to Blissville where life for a hero is easy. The Tick has to soldier alone against the city's villains until a mentor comes to help him achieve success. Meanwhile Arthur adjusts to life as a hero in a town where supervillain fights are pre-scheduled and everything's beautiful or is it. This is probably the most focused Storyline in Tick history, its. has a lot of humor, but does respect the Tick and Arthur as characters. The result is a very strong enjoyable comic arc that's very well written.
Next up is a three Issue "X-Mas Trilogy" that has the Tick wanting to put on a Christmas Pageant and has to join forces with such arch-rivals as Chairface Chippendale and the Terror to pull off it, though of course, ulterior are involved. The story is a fun read and manages to work its multiple characters in well. The pageant idea with its cornucopia of crazy idea kind of reminds me of the Charlie Brown Christmas special. Overall, a nice story though it's no days of Drama.
Finally is a single issue Comic Con special which finds the Tick at Comic Con along with his team who are jealous and want to dump the Tick from their team but need to enlist the help of Arthur. The story is funny, heart warming, and the end result of the team's actions is a great moment that made me very happy as a fan.
Overall, this is a thoroughly modern series of comics that capture what's fun about the Tick and is probably the most consistently good volume of Tick stories since Ben Edlund.
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