To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: They don't write 'em like this .. .
From: shofmann at mindspring.com (Scott Hofmann)
Date: 10 Jun 2002 16:01:32 -0400

>>>>> "TW" == Ted White <tedwhite at compusnet.com> writes:

 TW> Michael Walsh wrote:

 >> >>>>>> "CG" == Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com> writes:
 >> >
 >> > >> >
 >> > >> >"Slugs of justice speed their way to racketeers'
 >> > >> hearts."
 >> >
 >> > CG> For a brief moment I had a vision of the garden
 >> > CG> variety type of slug.  It was an interesting visual,
 >> > CG> but it didn't make a lot of sense.
 >> >
 >> >This is starting to sounds more and more like an episode of The Tick...
 >> >"Swimming like a great big blue salmon of Justice!"
 >>
 >> I must have blinked . . .never saw the show . . .

 TW> It takes place in a world in whch superheroes are common.  The Tick, a huge
 TW> blue guy with a brain the size of a walnut, hangs out with Batmanuel and a
 TW> cheesecakey Miss Liberty (or somesuch) and has a sidekick named The Moth who
 TW> has no superpowers at all, just a wimpy costume and the *desire* to be a
 TW> superhero.  It's what you might call a Gentle Spoof, but it *was* fun.
 TW> Naturally it was cancelled.  (It was based on a
 TW> small/independantly-published comic book.)

I'm actually referring to the animated version that was on Comedy Central
(originally Fox) several years ago. The live-action version also on Fox was OK,
but lacked the goofiness of the animated version. Plus, Patrick Warburton is a
big man, but The Tick was supposed to be "too big to be allowed", if I may
misquote Rowling. You just can't duplicate that on a weekly sitcom's effects
budget.

scott

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