Book Review; The Tick: Color, Series 2

The Tick: Color Series 2 by Clay Griffith

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


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.



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