30 Days of Me. Um. Yay? Day 6... Favourite super hero and why

This is an easy one for me. A superhero I've always held in high esteem is the 1989 New England Comics character, The Tick.

The cover of the DVD, available from Amazon

 His wild popularity as a piss-take of the DC & Marvel superheroes eventually earnt him three animated series and a live-action series, each with their own cult following. I can't claim to have seen more than a few snippets of the live series, but the animated episodes have more than fulfilled the need for the superhero or superheroine in my life. These three series of animated buffoonery in the name of superherodom have been truly tremendous and rank up there as one of my favourite animated series, alongside other firm favourites Animaniacs, Danger Mouse and Pinky & The Brain.

So why is he my favourite superhero? His superhuman strength, his blue antennae, his unnerving love of Santa, his love of the world "where I keep all my stuff", his gloriously tubby and cowardly sidekick, Arthur the accountant, Little Wooden Boy, the ludicrously evil Chairface Chippendale (who has a chair for a face), and even his wondrous battlecry of "Spoon" all endear him to me. He is the superhero I would want to be like. His bumbling, stupid attempts to save The City from disaster still end up in success, albeit with a few buildings damaged by his large, leaping mass.

He also has a strong appeal for the continuity shown over the episodes. When viewed in order, you can track the destruction of the moon. Laser tracks and bitemarks from large planet-eating individuals. The character development, the exposition of the origin of Arthur's moth suit. It gives this cartoon a lot of appeal to this "adult" (a title I rarely use and even less frequently earn).