The Adventures of Blubber-boy

In the 6th grade I created this profane weekly comic strip called “The Adventures of Blubber-boy.” It was a Superman parody loosely based off of an overweight friend of mine, who, lucky me, was a good sport for letting me ridicule him for the sake of art.

Blubber-boy came from the planet Cracktonia as an infant, his alter ego was named Elvis Rock, and he’d fight the likes of Mad Marvin (his arch-nemesis), Whops, The Troll, and Turd-Boy. Some of his powers included the super-puke, the super-fart, and the ability to absorb bullets with his gelatinous belly.

“The Adventures of Blubber-boy” ran for 21 issues, ending with a 6-page climactic battle against Mad Marvin who creates a giant killer robot that is terrorizing the citizens of Chicago. In the final panels of the last page, Blubber-boy climbs atop the John Hancock Building and does a cannonball into Lake Michigan, creating a great tsunami that swallows up the killer robot, causing it to short circuit.