I read them for a very intense period when I was 16 or 17. The Tick is just kind of a half-intelligent way of viewing the asinine quality of a superhero world. Edlund's head is unturned by his cult celebrity status. Growing up, his family enjoyed local fame and was frequently in the town paper. His father is a commercial artist who annually creates a Christmas card depicting the year in the life of the Edlund family.
Mom is the town librarian and campaigner for community causes.
Now based in New York, Edlund hopes to use his Tick take to finance a film about a freak. But it'll be a sort of nonconformist dedicated eccentric to the point of being near-debilitated in a social context. The Coffee by Cranberries None.