About Tick Karma Tornado
*The Tick's "second series." Tick tales told by other writers and artists under Ben Edlund's tutelage. All have been reprinted with some added material in each. Issues #3-6 contain new four-page stories by Eli Stone or Sean Wang! *Source: The Tick: A Comic Book History, The Tick The Luny Bin Trilogy #0
**When original writer and (sometime) penciler Christopher McCulloch first started meeting with Ben Edlund "to discuss storylines for what would become The Tick: Karma Tornado, Ben was supposedly still working on issue 13 of the regular series. His plan was to include a scene in which The Tick and Arthur, while exploring the mansion they'd just acquired from Barry, mysteriously disappear into thin air inside a closet. They reappear seconds later, having experienced some unseen, epic adventure in the interim--which to the, lasted not seconds but months--and The Tick: Karma Tornado was intended to be the chronicle of that adventures.
The out-of-time nature of their excursion led us to ponder science fiction, supernatural and/or extra-dimensional themes for the new series, and so that's why we find our heroes whisked away to out space in the inaugural issue." **Source: "Arachnida" Christopher McCulloch's forward from Tick: Karma Tornado - The Complete Works