The Tick’s Comic Con Extravaganza

    (NEC, 2007)
™ and © 2007 Ben Edlund

It doesn’t get any more exciting than this for our brawny but brainless hero: The Super Duper Comic Con has hit town, and Tick and Arthur, along with several of their lesser-known allies, are the special guests! For Tick it’s Hero-Heaven—he’s swamped by scores of fans, schmoozed by a TV producer, and sees his face plastered on countless types of merchandise throughout the convention center—from t-shirts to toilet cleaner (it fights crime and grime!).

Unfortunately, Arthur and the others are virtually ignored, dismissed as mere sidekicks, apparently unworthy of fandom and TV shows! Fed up with Tick always having the spotlight, Running Man, Caped Cod, Bumbling Bee and the others decide to kick Tick off their team—but they need Arthur’s vote to do it—can their friendship survive this test of envy, or is this the end of the greatest super-hero duo ever?

— Joseph Self
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