My Stupid Identity Meets Supedupboy
Originally printed in the May 1990 issue of Cracked Magazine
used without permission

There are LOTS of superheroes around today, but most of them are ADULTS! Since young folks need somebody their own age to identify with, some TV producers came up with a few teenaged heroes. Unfortunately, both of these juvenile crime fighters are dorks! We figured that if they became partners, maybe they'd be more exciting... Of course, they're never gonna compare to OTHER dynamic duos like BATMAN and ROBIN, MACHO MAN and HULK HOGAN or even CARY GRANT and RANDOLPH SCOTT. Here's what happens when...

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Supedupboy: Android, I wish you'd come up with a snazzier costume than a couple of spray cans and a pair of smelly socks!
Pedestrian #1: Look! Up in the sky! It's a plane! It's a bird!
Pedestrian #2: Nah! It's two boids!
Pedestrian #3: Yeah! A couple of dodo birds!
Pedestrian #4 (Robin): Holy Mary Poppins, Battyman! They sure don't make crime fighters like they used to!
Pedestrian #5 (Batman): Yeah! The way things are going, we'll probably end up getting our superheroes made in Japan!
Narrator: But wait! We're getting ahead of our story...

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Dr. Jerkcoat: I have splendid news, Android! I've been invited to give a lecture at Siegel University and I want you to come along! I'm going to talk on the mating habits of the fruit fly.
Android: What kind of fly?
Dr. Jerkcoat: Fruit!
Android: That figures!

Narrator: Meanwhile at Siegel University...
Kluck Cannt: Wow! What happened?! I'll bet those jocks did this because they didn't like my editorial saying they should attend classes like regular students!
Male Friend: No, it was the teachers! They said their jobs were miserable enough without having neanderthals in the classes!

Male Friend: Luckily for you, it wasn't the jocks! They'd've trashed you, not your office!
Loona: Your luck just ran out! Here comes Rocky, the captain of the football team!
Kluck Caant: I'll bet some fink read the editorial to him!

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Rocky: From now on, you four-eyed wuss, mind your own business.
Kluck Cannt: Fortunately, my glasses are shatter-proof!
Loona: It's not your glasses I'm worried about, Kluck! It's the rest of the building!

Student #1: Look! It's Supedupboy!
Supedupboy #2: I'm here to teach you guys a lesson!
Rocky: You gonna beat us up 'cause of what Rocky did to yer buddy, Kluck Caant?!
Supedupboy: No, I'm going to teach you to read!
Jock: Gee! Couldn't ya beat us up instead?

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Kluck Cannt: Did you see this? Everybody on the team passed! Siegel is probably the only college in the country with a record like that! I'll bet the student body is proud!
Male Friend: Actually, they're more like teed off! The team spent so much time studying, they didn't practice and they lost three straight games!
Student #2: It's all your fault, Cannt! You and your stupid editorial!
Student #3: Thanks to you, Siegel U has become a joke! Who wants to go to a school whose team isn't in the Top 10?!

Kluck Cannt: (thinking) Oops! I've been so busy tutoring jocks and fighting crime, I didn't have time to study for my exams! My X-ray vision could see the answers in my teacher's desk, but that's cheating and I stand for truth, justice and the American way ... Hey, cheating is the American way!

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Kluck Cannt (thinking): Okay, X-ray, do your stuff! (speaking): WOW!
Teacher: Mr. Cannt! There will be no talking during the exam!
Kluck Cannt: Y-yes, Miss Bunwell, I mean Miss Buttwell, uh, Miss Boswell!

Kluck Cannt (thinking): There's a bomb in Miss Boswell's desk! I have to get everybody out of the room! I know! I'll use one of my cheap special effects to start a fire!

Kluck uses heat vision to start a fire in the waste paper basket.

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Supedupboy (thinking): Good! They all left! First, I'll put out the fire... Then I'll copy Loona's test... She always gets an A...I've got three seconds to get rid of this bomb! I'll toss it into the sky where it won't do any harm!

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Android: Dr. Jerkcoat, do you think I'll ever develop X-ray vision?
Dr. Jerkcoat: Why on Earth would you want to?
Android: If you have to ask, forget it!

Plane Pilot: This is your captain speaking.. We have just been hit by a bomb, so if you feel like smoking, light up! I mean, what have you got to lose?!
Supedupboy: Uh oh! This is my fault! I have to save the people!

Android: Hi, Supedupboy! I'm Android Clodments! Need any help?
Supedupboy: Where did you learn to fly?
Android: I was accidentally blasted by a photon beam and now I can float!
Supedupboy: You better go for another blast! Those spray cans are wrecking the ozone!

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Dr. Jerkcoat: You boys did a splendid job! You saved all the passengers!
Android: We make a swell team, Supedupboy!
Dr. Jerkcoat: I wonder what kind of fiend bombed that plane?
Supedupboy: I'm afraid I did it!
Android: Funny! You don't look Iranian!

Supedupboy: Hey! Lax Luger just went into the Dean's office!
Dean: Luger, I thought I could count on you to get rid of Kluck Cannt!
Luger: I would have wasted that creep if it wasn't for Supedupboy!

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Supedupboy: Somebody mention my name? Dean Shuster, why are you with a sleazeball like Lax Luger?!
Dean: I needed his help to get rid of that crusading editor Kluck Cannt! I want the football team to do what they were hired to do... win games! Not waste their time in classes!

Supedupboy: Isn't the purpose of college to give students an education?!
Dean: Nah! College is about being Number 1! The team could have been undefeated and gotten a Bowl bid! We could have built a new stadium and made millions! Money is the name of the game, not education!

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Android: Those ying-yangs really got a totally awesome punishment!
Supedupboy: Yes, justice has been served! The Dean was demoted to assistant janitor and Lax has to write "I will not plant a bomb in the classroom" 500 times!

Android: Sometimes I get tired of my super powers! Like, whenever I take off my shoes, I float to the ceiling! Don't you ever wish you were a normal, average guy, Supedupboy?
Supedupboy: Yeah, I suppose it would be fun doing regular teenage stuff instead of spending all my time rescuing people and catching crooks!
Android: I wonder what we'd be like if we didn't have all these powers?

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Dr. Jerkcoat: That's simple boys... You'd be just like me!

Supedupboy: Boy am I glad I've got super powers!
Android: You've got that right!
Supedupboy: Let's see if anybody needs our help! Look! Your sister, Erin Go Braugh, fell in a well! We'll rescue her, then we can go topple a South American government, patch up the ozone...
Android: All right!!