‘The Tick’ review: Odd superhero makes Amazon series click

Another superhero series, you sigh, but Amazon’s “The Tick” takes its own droll, strange journey to make it stand out.
First, it is more about the sidekick than the blue-outfitted crime fighter named after a small pesky arachnid. Arthur Everest (Griffin Newman) was a young boy when he saw his father crushed by a superhero ship shot out of the sky by The Terror (Jackie Earle Hayley) and his henchmen.
Traumatized, he has been plagued by the notion that The Terror, who was suppose