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The series follows a team of super-powered teenagers who drink, smoke, swear, get high, and fight each other while doing almost nothing heroic, except by accident.[1](https://frederatorstudios.com/shows/superfckers/)\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Creator | James Kochalka, writer and artist; Vermont's cartoonist laureate 2011–2014 and creator of the diary comic strip *American Elf*[1](https://frederatorstudios.com/shows/superfckers/) |\n| Original comic | Four issues published by Top Shelf Productions, numbered #271 (March 2005), #273 (2005), #277 (June 2006), and #279 (2007)[2](https://www.comics.org/series/20849/details/) |\n| Collected edition | *Super F*ckers*, Top Shelf, 2010, 141 pages, $14.95, ISBN 978-1-60309-052-0[3](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-60309-052-0) |\n| Animated series | Premiered November 30, 2012 on Cartoon Hangover; written by Kochalka, directed by Fran Krause[4](https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-hangover-debuts-superfckers) |\n| Season one | 12 episodes of about five minutes each, released Fridays from November 30, 2012 to May 24, 2013, with a mid-season break[5](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/superf-ckers/allseasons/official) • [6](https://laughingsquid.com/superfckers-new-animated-comedy-web-series-by-james-kochalka/) |\n| Voice cast | David Faustino (Jack Krak), Jaleel White (Percy), Maria Bamford (Princess Sunshine and Computer Fist), Veronica Belmont (Grotessa), Phil Morris (Ultra Richard), Justin Roiland (Orange Lightning and Vortex), and Kochalka (Grotus and Shitstorm)[7](https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/show/superfckers) • [8](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/) |\n| Revival | *Superf*ckers Forever*, a five-issue series from IDW and Top Shelf announced in 2016[9](https://comicsalliance.com/james-kochalkas-superfckers-is-returning-from-idw/) |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Plot\n\n#### Season 1 (2012)\n\nThe series lives in a superhero universe that looks a lot like the teen-team comics of the 1970s and 1980s, except everyone in it is an idiot. The action sits almost entirely inside the SuperF*ckers clubhouse, where Jack Krak, Ultra Richard, Princess Sunshine, Grotessa, and Grotus Wonder share a house, a couch, and a bottomless supply of contempt for one another.\n\nThe first episode, \"Sweet Mystery,\" opens on the show's whole worldview. Princess Sunshine sits brushing her hair, which she must do one thousand times to recharge a super power nobody, including her, has identified. Grotessa fumes at the pointless ritual. Jack barges in, decides he has walked in on a lesbian make-out session, lingers in disappointment, and gets thrown out for being a chauvinist. Meanwhile Ultra Richard uses his x-ray vision to watch the girls dress, and Jack hurls insults at him on general principle. Kochalka adapted the scene almost directly from the comic, though he changed the context around it. The episode closes with Ultra Richard solemnly promising to explain \"the greatest mystery to ever confound the motherf*cker.\"\n\nA running engine of the season is that the team's actual leader, Super Dan, is trapped in Dimension Zero, a void with no food, no phone reception, and no hope of getting home. His teammates barely register his absence, and the season cuts back to him stranded and starving while the clubhouse carries on without him. In the late-season episode \"Burger Brothers,\" Super Dan and Percy are still stuck in the void, and back home Jack and Ultra Richard's friendship is tested again.\n\nThe season's other stories are short, crude disasters. Grotessa, hopelessly infatuated with the hero Vortex, embarrasses herself in front of him so badly that she tries to flush her own head down the toilet. Grotus Wonder, a slime creature, turns out to have a fantastic drug built into his body: his slime, when smoked, is a powerful narcotic, and the team smokes it. Radical Randy suffers full body horror after Xaxxax poisoning, his flesh rebelling against him. Jack, who spends the season nursing superpower envy of everyone more gifted than he is, accidentally creates his own worst nightmare, an amped-up, even stupider version of himself that Kochalka described as \"a sh*t in a spacesuit, basically.\"\n\n**The entrance of Shitstorm is the moment fans remember.** Jack's accidental creation bursts onto the scene announcing himself with \"Hiyoo, brothafuckaaas! I am Shitstorm!\", a walking catastrophe in a spacesuit who is everything Jack is, only louder and dumber. The show has spent episodes establishing Jack as the biggest asshole in the clubhouse, and then hands him a mirror he cannot stand. Shitstorm's arrival gives the season its most quotable line: the SuperF*ckers' real enemy is a slightly worse Jack Krak.\n\nIn \"The Greatest Story Ever Told,\" Jack converts to Christianity and marks it with a white-costume \"Good Costume Switch,\" the classic superhero rebrand played as pure vanity. In another episode, Pink Arrow takes aim at Computer Fist, misses, and shoots Jack instead, letting loose the show's most famous Atomic F-Bomb: \"You lucky... fucking... COCKSUCKER!!!\" The season ends with the Earth exploding after a drugged Jack shatters the Time Capsule that Vortex was guarding.\n\n### Characters\n\nJack Krak (James Kochalka) is the show's center of gravity and its biggest jerk, a hero with power envy, a catchphrase (\"Jack Krak is the motherfucker!\"), and a talent for making everything about himself. One reviewer compared his voice to [Pauly Shore](https://www.edgepedia.org/pauly-shore)'s.\n\nUltra Richard ([David Faustino](https://www.edgepedia.org/david-faustino)) is Jack's frequent target and reluctant best friend, whose x-ray vision is used almost exclusively for peeping. His friendship with Jack survives everything Jack throws at it across the season.\n\nPrincess Sunshine ([Maria Bamford](https://www.edgepedia.org/maria-bamford)) is the team's diva, who recharges her mysterious, never-revealed power by brushing her hair a thousand times. Bamford's performance was singled out by reviewers as a highlight.\n\nGrotessa (Veronica Belmont) is Sunshine's best friend and defender, chronically annoyed by the hair ritual and hopelessly humiliated by her crush on Vortex, a humiliation she once tried to end via toilet.\n\nGrotus Wonder ([Jaleel White](https://www.edgepedia.org/jaleel-white)) is the team's slime being, whose body doubles as a recreational drug.\n\nSuper Dan (Phil Morris) is the team's actual leader, spending the season trapped in Dimension Zero while his team fails to miss him.\n\nShitstorm is Jack's accidental, even stupider double, a space-suited disaster who steals every scene he enters.\n\n### Interpretations and controversies\n\nKochalka has said that if superheroes were real, they would be like teens on the internet, and the series works as both satire and farce, a parody, homage, and takedown of the teen superhero teams of the 1970s and 1980s. [TV Tropes](https://www.edgepedia.org/tv-tropes) classifies it as an animated shock comedy where most of the humor comes from how much of an asshole each \"hero\" is. The constant profanity, sex jokes, and scatological humor meant the show streamed uncensored on YouTube rather than airing on television.\n\n### Sequels, spin-offs, and adaptations\n\nThe series adapts Kochalka's comic SuperF*ckers, published by Top Shelf Productions, which the reviewer Chris Sims of ComicsAlliance called \"one of the funniest comics I've ever read.\" Kochalka said after the first season that he had many more stories and directions he wanted to explore with the characters if it did well, but no second season followed.\n\n## The comic series\n\nKochalka launched *SuperF*ckers* at Top Shelf Productions in 2005 as a four-issue miniseries that ran until 2007.[9](https://comicsalliance.com/james-kochalkas-superfckers-is-returning-from-idw/) In a 2007 interview he explained its origin: he had pitched a *Legion of Super-Heroes* series to [DC Comics](https://www.edgepedia.org/dc-comics), and when the company took a long time to respond, he began working on the idea himself and changed the name to \"Super Fuckers.\"[10](https://panelsandpixels.blogspot.com/2007/05/graphic-lit-interview-with-james.html) He has said he does not consider the result a parody but a real superhero comic, calling it a satire that also satirizes things from real life; one issue contains a President Bush satire in which the hero Jack Crack tweaks the club rules to become president.[10](https://panelsandpixels.blogspot.com/2007/05/graphic-lit-interview-with-james.html)\n\n**Numbering as a joke.** The issues are numbered #271, #273, #277, and #279, with no other issues existing. Kochalka said he wanted to recreate the experience of reading superhero comics as a child, when he could rarely find two issues in a row and hundreds of issues of back-story remained a mystery; the gaps also let him dispense with exposition and resolving cliffhangers.[8](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/) • [3](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-60309-052-0) He drew two versions of the first few pages, one without swears and one with, and the version with swears won.[8](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/)\n\n**Content and style.** The team lives in a big clubhouse, plays video games on a state-of-the-art supercomputer, smokes the slime drippings of their teammate Grotus, and fights among themselves while would-be heroes line up outside for tryouts.[11](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/super-fckers/4050-36584/) *Publishers Weekly* described the 2010 collection as a gleefully disjointed romp drawn in Kochalka's ultra-cute, clear-line style with simple flat colors, noting a disarming sweetness beneath the satirical vulgarity.[3](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-60309-052-0) The collection reprints all four issues plus a new solo story about Jack Krak.[12](https://www.g-mart.com/static/f096783.html)\n\n## The animated series\n\nAfter the comic ended, Kochalka and Frederator pitched an animated version to cable networks that allow swearing, in Los Angeles and New York; none of those meetings produced a deal, and funding from YouTube followed instead.[8](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/) The series debuted on Cartoon Hangover, the YouTube channel of Frederator Networks, the production company of animation producer Fred Seibert, whose credits include *The Fairly OddParents* and *Adventure Time*.[13](https://icv2.com/articles/comics/view/24457/superf-ckers-animated-series) It was produced in association with Top Shelf Productions.[4](https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-hangover-debuts-superfckers)\n\nThe first season ran as 12 five-minute episodes released each Friday, with one mid-season break, from the debut episode \"Sweet Mystery\" on November 30, 2012 through \"Chug the Drug\" on May 24, 2013.[6](https://laughingsquid.com/superfckers-new-animated-comedy-web-series-by-james-kochalka/) • [5](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/superf-ckers/allseasons/official) Episodes appeared in censored form on YouTube and uncensored on the website, and the first half of the season ran on Cartoon Hangover's Uncensored Channel.[14](https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-uncensored-clip-from-superfers-cartoon-debuting-tomorrow/) • [15](https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24530/1/HOBBS%2CJakePh.D._2015.pdf) The show was canceled after one season.[7](https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/show/superfckers)\n\n**Casting.** Kochalka and Eric Homan, Frederator's VP of Development, cast the show together, auditioning agents' clients and, in one case, searching YouTube for a distinctive voice, which is how Kochalka found Veronica Belmont for the role of Grotessa.[8](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/) Maria Bamford, already known to Frederator from voice work on *Adventure Time*, was suggested for Princess Sunshine, but Kochalka wanted her for Computer Fist, a role no male actor had fit; she was cast in both parts.[8](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/) Kochalka himself voiced the blobby pet Grotus and Shitstorm, the latter after months of daily asking, using what he described as a terribly done Ukrainian accent.[8](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/) • [16](https://www.themarysue.com/superfckers-web-series/)\n\n## Later comics\n\nIn April 2016, IDW and Top Shelf announced at Emerald City ComiCon that the series would return that August as *Superf*ckers Forever*, a five-issue series; IDW's Chief Creative Officer Chris Ryall called it a book that \"out-events\" over-the-top comic-book events.[9](https://comicsalliance.com/james-kochalkas-superfckers-is-returning-from-idw/) Between the original run and the revival, Kochalka had focused mostly on all-ages comics such as *Johnny Boo*.[9](https://comicsalliance.com/james-kochalkas-superfckers-is-returning-from-idw/)\n\n## References\n\n1. [SuperF*ckers, Frederator Studios](https://frederatorstudios.com/shows/superfckers/)\n2. [Superf*ckers (2005 series) details, Grand Comics Database](https://www.comics.org/series/20849/details/)\n3. [Review of Super F*ckers by James Kochalka, Publishers Weekly](https://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-60309-052-0)\n4. [Cartoon Hangover Debuts 'Superf*ckers', Animation World Network](https://www.awn.com/news/cartoon-hangover-debuts-superfckers)\n5. [SuperF*ckers aired order, TheTVDB](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/superf-ckers/allseasons/official)\n6. [SuperF*ckers, New Animated Comedy Web Series by James Kochalka, Laughing Squid](https://laughingsquid.com/superfckers-new-animated-comedy-web-series-by-james-kochalka/)\n7. [SuperF*ckers (2012), Plex](https://watch.plex.tv/en-GB/show/superfckers)\n8. [Interview: James Kochalka, Creator of \"SuperF*ckers\", Verbicide Magazine](https://verbicidemagazine.com/interview-james-kochalka-2/)\n9. [James Kochalka's 'SuperF*ckers' Is Returning From IDW, Comics Alliance](https://comicsalliance.com/james-kochalkas-superfckers-is-returning-from-idw/)\n10. [Graphic Lit: An interview with James Kochalka, Panels and Pixels](https://panelsandpixels.blogspot.com/2007/05/graphic-lit-interview-with-james.html)\n11. [Super F*ckers (Volume), Comic Vine](https://comicvine.gamespot.com/super-fckers/4050-36584/)\n12. [Superf*ckers (SC), G-Mart Comics](https://www.g-mart.com/static/f096783.html)\n13. ['Superf*ckers' Animated Series, ICv2](https://icv2.com/articles/comics/view/24457/superf-ckers-animated-series)\n14. [Exclusive UNCENSORED clip from SUPERF***ERS cartoon, Comics Beat](https://www.comicsbeat.com/exclusive-uncensored-clip-from-superfers-cartoon-debuting-tomorrow/)\n15. [Jake Hobbs (2015), Audience Engagement and Monetisation of Creative Content in Digital Environments, Bournemouth University](https://eprints.bournemouth.ac.uk/24530/1/HOBBS%2CJakePh.D._2015.pdf)\n16. [F*ck Yes! 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