It is based on the comic character with the same name.
Why go to the trouble of creating a new comic character when you live with one every day?
Almost every major studio has a movie in the works based on a comic book character.
How do you turn a comic character into a sympathetic one?
The problem is that the audience still has to believe in and care about comic characters.
Looking like a comic character, it is just the thing to send you off with a smile.
Like a comic strip character, I could feel a question mark form above my head.
"But the comic characters are very strong, and that's what women want."
"But I changed you into a comic book character," he insisted.
The Tick has been well received as a comic book character.