I was in on The Tick from the very beginning, thanks mainly to the fact that the owner of my LCS at the time was convinced it was going to be "the next Cerebus." As it turned oout, it was much more like the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, however not nearly as successful. I collected The Tick through #12, then dropped it for reasons I no longer recall. I think possibnly by that time I had decided to buy Chroma-Tick, the color reprints, instead. If that is the case, it didn't really work out for me because Chroma-tick got only as far as #9. By that time the main series had rebooted and decided f*ck it." The Tick was unique at the time for being printed "Golden Age" size. Chroma-Tick was in color, but the size of a standard comic book. At some point, The Tick was made into an animated cartoon, which I never saw. Tracy was familiar with it, however. When we were dating, I said something about the tick and she replied, "Spoon!" I married her immediately. (What else could I do?)
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I'm not sure which I discovered first - the comic book Tick or the animated version. I was back to actively buying and reading comics during the Nineties and I purchased a few Tick comics in both color and B&W. The animated series was in its first run around that same time. I watched it regularly with my daughters although they didn't have a clue regarding the parody aspects of the stories. Overall I found the animated cartoon more amusing than the comic books.