‘The Tick’ First Trailer: Amazon’s New Superhero Series

The Tick Comes to Comic Con
A scene from ‘The Tick’ (Photo by David Giesbrecht/Amazon Prime Video)

Amazon’s unveiled the first full trailer for The Tick, the new superhero comedy series starring Peter Serafinowicz. The comedy was created by Ben Edlund, with Edlund executive producing with Barry Josephson and Barry Sonnenfeld. In addition to Serafinowicz, The Tick cast includes Griffin Newman, Valorie Curry, Jackie Earle Haley, Yara Martinez, Brendan Hines, Scott Speiser, and Michael Cerveris.

The Tick season one will air in two parts, with the first part premiering on August 25, 2017. Part two will follow in early 2018.

The Plot: The new Amazon Original series centers on an underdog accountant, Arthur Everest, with zero powers who comes to realize his city is owned by a global supervillain long-thought dead. As he struggles to uncover this conspiracy, he falls in league with a strange blue superhero…The Tick!