After completing the first 12 issues of this series, Ben Edlund left to work on the Fox animated Tick show.
After many years of waiting for Ben Edlund to release a promised conclusion to the series, this issue was finally put out by other individuals within NEC.
Chroma-Tick number 4 was released with three presidential election themed covers: Bush Re-elected in Upset, Perot wins in Shocker and Clinton by Landslide.
The Tick: Big Blue Destiny, Ashcan edition was also released with a no-logo variant cover.
Each cover of the special and limited editions featured photos of the characters from the live action version of the Tick.
The Golden Age series imagines the Tick as he would have appeared in the early days of comic books and puts him in such scenarios as fighting the Nazis in World War II and as a cynical gumshoe.
A Trade Paperback entitled the Tick Golden Age Giant Edition and which collects issues 1-3 has also been released.
A trade paperback collecting Paul the Samurai 9-10 and Man-Eating Cow 9-10 was released as Tick Omnibus 5 in June 1996.
A bimonthly Tick series which began publication in December 2009, written by Benito Cereno with art by Les McClaine.
Issue #100 found the Tick meeting Invincible [created by Robert Kirkman] and had a certain sidekick suffer a tragic death.
The next issue #101 (released October 2012) found the Tick meeting Madman [created by Mike Allred] through more eccentric sci-fi plot devices allowing for the crossover.
Starting in 2010, NEC has released one Free Comic Book Day (first Saturday in May) helping of The Tick almost every year, excluding 2012.
As of the typing of this article, an issue of The Tick FCBD for 2020 has been announced on Free Comic Book Day's official website, complete with a 6 page preview (https://www.freecomicbookday.com/Catalog/JAN200034).
The Tick appeared in the first issue of Tales Too Terrible to Tell 1, also published by New England Comics, released Winter 1989-90.
Ben Edlund drew a two-page comic strip for Fox Totally Kids magazine to promote The Tick animated series in the fall of 1995.