"Fans," SuperPro? That's a little optimistic.

Thanks to its well-deserved reputation as one of the worst comics ever printed, there aren't many more obvious targets for Internet mockery than SuperPro (well, besides the obvious), so he's been covered pretty thoroughly. But there's something fascinating about his awfulness that we just can't get away from.To start with, there's the obvious: SuperPro was created in 1991 as the product of a truly bizarre marketing union between Marvel Comics and the NFL, apparently designed to answer the questions that were left over from their previous foray into Football Super-Heroics, Kickers, Inc.

"SuperPro," which centered on an ex-football player turned journalist turned super-hero, was created by writer Fabian Nicieza, who essentially wrote the series to get free tickets to football games. As you might imagine, it is rife with problems, most notably the fact that its protagonist, Phil Grayfield -- who partially gets his powers from, and we are not kidding, inhaling the fumes of a chemical fire that burns up a priceless collection of NFL memorabilia -- pretty much steals his costume from an eccentric scientist.

And did we mention that it was created in 1991?

Because it definitely was.

Even if you put aside the signature 90s-ness of the dialogue, though, the problems only multiply as the series goes on. Namely that matter what you might've heard from Spider-Man...