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'The Tick' will latch on to you: Amazon takes up the oddball superhero tale with just the right mix of crazy and clever

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who like their superheroes bleak and those who like them bright. (And, yes, there are people who don't like superheroes at all, but I have factored them out of this equation.) You have your Revisionists and your Classicists, your Team Kevlar and your Team Spandex, your Dark Knighters and your Caped Crusaderers.

You can put me in the latter camp _ the sometimes campy camp.

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