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During the Serenity <\/em>panel at the Comic-Con, someone asked if Joss expected to be working with Ben Edlund<\/a> (creator of The Tick<\/em>, as well as a major contributor to various Whedon series). Joss replied that Ben marched to the beat of his own drummer.<\/p>\n

That beat seems to be leading to another promising series: Global Frequency<\/em><\/a>, based on the comic by Warren Ellis.<\/p>\n

Ben Edlund, creator of The Tick and a recent writer for Angel, is among the writers contributing for The WB’s Global Frequency television series.<\/p>\n

Cool.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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I have the book this came from ...Reshared post from +Helena Bertinelli Google+: View post on Google+","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":131149,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/07\/28\/the-once-and-future-tick.html","url_meta":{"origin":6677,"position":4},"title":"The Once and Future "Tick"","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 28-Jul-16 4:41pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Great interview with Ben Edlund over the past, and future, of the Tick.I love the character, and have since those original black-and-white comics (and they were never the same once Edlund stopped writing them). I'm excited to see what Edlund is going after this time. 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