This is a present just waiting to happen, for those of us who enjoy satire and August 29 birthdays.
The Tick, the first season, minus one episode, release date: August 29.
I haven't seen this cartoon in many years. I'm hoping the laughs in my memory are high-fidelity memories, not echoes of something more modest. (I just finished watching the first season of Wild Wild West on DVD -- I enjoyed it, but it didn't have the same punch I remember from watching it as a kid...probably because I'm taller now, and the same dizzying blow to the head -- the music, the gadgets, the cliffhanger endings -- now connects with my gut, where old memories eventually settle in a nostalgic soup.)
Hey there Mark. Why is it missing 1 episode?
Posted by: Mike Lynch | July 09, 2006 at 09:23 AM
Phillip Jones reports this at Amazon:
The missing episode is "The Tick vs. The Mole Men". Here is Disney's official statement:
"Due to creative considerations episode 11 ("The Tick vs. The Mole Men") is not included. However, we hope to include it in future Tick releases."
I'm not entirely sure what that means. Is this a rights issue, or does Ben Edlund just hate the episode?
Posted by: mark heath | July 09, 2006 at 01:15 PM
Weird. I mean, if Trek left off "And the Children Shall Lead" out of one of its season sets (one of the all-time bad episodes), fans would be cuh-razy mad. Why alienate the fan base?
Posted by: Mike Lynch | July 10, 2006 at 04:31 PM