Paste: Since this is the first time a live-action Tick has seen a second season, it’s wrapping all its meta-references in with the show’s own history. It was our task to think about superheroes as having careers-with some looking for greener fields-and having all these different points of view on display for Arthur. It’s like he decided he has a new job and his new job is being a superhero. Was there one aspect of superhero mundanity you wanted to focus on?īen Edlund: In a way AEGIS provides an almost corporate context for Arthur and all these heroes. There are jaded senior-level supers and excited entry-level supers and everywhere in-between. Paste: Season Two goes all over the place with superhero career trajectory. So what’s new with Arthur, The Tick, and Dot in the upcoming episodes? The multi-hyphenate creator sat down with Paste to talk about overcoming sophomore struggles, Cool World, and someone named Teen Yeti. It’s a world as funny and weird as the cartoon, where even a boat has a tragic backstory it shares plenty of tonal and aesthetic similarities to Joss Whedon’s Doctor Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog, something else Edlund helped create. Now, the hero is back on TV, with Peter Serafinowicz donning the antennae this go-round for Amazon Prime Video’s live-action take on the show, and Edlund acting as executive producer and showrunner. This snowballed into merchandise, an animated series, and Patrick Warburton in form-fitting blue.

He created the satirical superhero back in high school, then got hired to make it a full comic series. But he’s actually done everything when it comes to The Tick. Ben Edlund has done a little of everything, helping bring tons of genre entertainment to the screen-from the niche ( The Venture Bros.) to the super-popular ( Supernatural, which recently marked its 300th episode).

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