An unusual thing about The Tick is that he never actually had an origin story. I think that in the very first comic he escapes from a mental institution, but he's already very much The Tick at that point and we never see anything of his life before then.

"Evil is JUST PLAIN BAD! You don't cotton to it! You've got to whack it on the nose with the rolled-up newspaper of goodness!"

Will The Evil Midnight Bomber What Bombs At Midnight be in evidence?

The Statue of Limitations expired.

…sadly, Lem's honorary membership in the TGI Friday's Stripes Club was revoked after Philip K. Dick became convinced that Communist lasers from space were beaming images of the Ultimate Margarita directly into his brain.

Stanislaw Lem objected to the director's changes to his storyline, as Lem was notoriously brand-loyal to TGI Friday's.

Here is a tangentially related thing that's been vaguely irking me for decades.

I think I saw the movie on TV in the era of Off The Wall, just a year or two after it came out, and my reaction was just "Oh, that's Michael Jackson! He's really good, it makes sense he'd be in this." It was a narrow time window…

They'd have to bowdlerize the language.

There are multiple stage musicals of The Wizard of Oz, which are not The Wiz. They could have easily done one of those instead…

I saw a performance of that once. I remember thinking it could be the highlight of a series called "Pretty Much What You'd Expect Theater."

"There’s always been something odd about the tale of a young girl who dreams of adventure, goes on one, and ultimately decides the best way to live life is to never, ever leave home again."

I think that in the Marvel universe, Marvel Comics exist but they're licensed true-life stories of the real superheroes.

The scowl makes him look more like Ultraman. (Not the Japanese Ultraman, the evil-universe-Superman Ultraman.)

I think Uncle Grandpa is really kind of bad. Though when I was my daughter's age I'd probably have just loved the surrealism-for-the-sake-of-surrealism, like she does. While that is sometimes funny in a dumb way, the thing is, there's nothing else there.

To me Clarence is a really sad show. Maybe because it reminds me of a lot of kids I knew when I was young who were all kind of doomed. There's something almost too real about it.

I watched most of this today. It's amazing how well Adventure Time continues to hold up. This is a small epic.

I always found it kind of weird that in Lego Episode IV, Luke and Obi-Wan have this extended adventure just slaughtering their way through this whole Sandpeople town. I mean, the only thing wrong with it seems to be that it's in the way. And Luke's got a blaster instead of the awkward farmboy shootin' arn he carries…

That Atari managed to recognizably recreate the Death Star trench battle, in real-time perspective and garish color, in an arcade game in 1983 was a sort of miracle. And it's my choice. No contest.

but because they changed a scene from Star Wars, the sci-fi equivalent of