declaration of “SPOOOOOOOOOON!”, which he started one day while eating breakfast.

Pals and Worser Pals

No superhero is an island.

Tick’s most trusted sidekick is Arthur, who appears in the cartoon and live-action series dressed as a moth and is capable of flying. Captain Liberty (American Maid in the comics), is a Wonder Woman/Captain America hybrid, who may be the only competent superhero in The City, but who is also shallow and self-absorbed. And then there’s Batmanuel, a Spanish spoof of Batman who has a complicated relationship with Captain Liberty.

These jokers never really form a Justice League or even organization of any kind. They just sort of fuck around.

The Big Bad

In the new reboot, Jackie Earle Haley will play The Terror, one of many one-note villains who fights the Tick inMore than a week after a Philippine supreme court’s decision, the former president Ferdinand E Marcos has been buried at the Heroes’ Cemetery, in Metro Manila. In what is seen as a surprisingly quick move by his family, the enbalmed dictator’s body was flown over in secret in an attempt to avoid protests.

Public concern over Marcos’ final resting place, who died aged 72 in 1989, is focused on whether he deserved to be buried at Heroes’ Cemetery, known as Libingan ng mga Bayani (LNMB). The cemetery, in Taguig City, south-east Metro Manila, commemorates war veterans and “national heroes” and is also a burial site for dignitaries and renowned artists and scientists, as well as presidents.

Marcos is a polarising figure among the people of the Philippines. His presidency spanned