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Frantic and frequently fierce under its laid-back facade, this is some quality funny business.

Now, there’s taking geeky stuff seriously, and then there’s being so damn earnest that someone deserves a smack.

We can thank ‘Darkwing Duck’ for paving the way for the likes of the far superior, far more subversive superhero parody ‘The Tick,’ but it suffers greatly by comparison.

This wonderfully demented example came at the end of a splendid golden age of grown-up juvenilia…

The frenetic, edgy pacing of the brief stories and the just-a-bit-gonzo animation will divert kids and tickle adults fans of off-kilter toons alike.

The British accents may lend a touch of Benny Hill randiness… but the feeling that we’ve seen this all before would be inescapable anyway.

Completely vulgar and totally without any redeeming value whatsoever and very, very funny in a thoroughly NC-17 kind of way…

It’s like being at the world’s (unintentionally) scariest ever tea party… or maybe the funniest.

Total fantasy! Honest leaders driven by integrity and principle? It’ll never happen…