{"id":14319,"date":"2015-09-04T12:21:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:21:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14319"},"modified":"2015-09-04T12:21:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-04T17:21:19","slug":"beware-evil-doers-you-face-the-tick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/?p=14319","title":{"rendered":"Beware, Evil Doers! You Face The Tick!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001, Fox premiered the live-action version of <i>The Tick<\/i>. I thought they did a pretty credible effort capturing the comic book&#8217;s goofy, off-kilter charm, despite an incredibly modest budget for a live action network show (they couldn&#8217;t even hire someone who looked like Jimmy Carter for the pilot). <\/p>\n<p>So naturally, it being on Fox, they cancelled it after nine episodes<\/p>\n<p>Now comes word that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theverge.com\/2014\/8\/30\/6086391\/the-tick-with-patrick-warburton-getting-an-amazon-pilot\">Amazon is resurrecting the show<\/a> with Patrick Warburton back in the title role.  <\/p>\n<p>If it gets picked up, I may have to finally break down and subscribe to Amazon Prime&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"width:120px;height:240px;\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&#038;OneJS=1&#038;Operation=GetAdHtml&#038;MarketPlace=US&#038;source=ac&#038;ref=tf_til&#038;ad_type=product_link&#038;tracking_id=lawpershompag-20&#038;marketplace=amazon&#038;region=US&#038;placement=B00H4WGGXW&#038;asins=B00H4WGGXW&#038;linkId=2Q2EVYBJWFFJSKO5&#038;show_border=true&#038;link_opens_in_new_window=true\"><br \/>\n<\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip: <a href=\"http:\/\/billcrider.blogspot.com\/\">Bill Crider<\/a> on Facebook.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2001, Fox premiered the live-action version of The Tick. I thought they did a pretty credible effort capturing the comic book&#8217;s goofy, off-kilter charm, despite an incredibly modest budget for a live action network show (they couldn&#8217;t even hire someone who looked like Jimmy Carter for the pilot). So naturally, it being on Fox, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":5,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,474],"tags":[378,871,377,1996,1987],"class_list":["post-14319","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-science-fiction","category-tv","tag-comic-books","tag-fox","tag-superheroes","tag-the-tick","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14319"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14343,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14319\/revisions\/14343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lawrenceperson.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}