NFL SuperPro Special Edition 1

(Open on Linkara sitting on his Futon)

Linkara: Hello, and welcome to Atop the Fourth Wall, where bad comics burn. It's a new year and a new chance to try out something different, so naturally, today we're looking at something associated with something I've already reviewed. I make so much sense.

(Cut to shots of a comic Linkara reviewed previously, "NFL SuperPro #1")

Linkara (v/o): So, 362 episodes and six years ago, I reviewed the first issue of "NFL SuperPro", a widely-mocked comic, mostly for how stupid its idea is. A football-playing superhero tie-in with the NFL. It has been derided by many as being one of the worst comics ever made.

Linkara: (laughs uproariously) Oh, you sweet, innocent children!

Linkara (v/o): Yeah, "NFL SuperPro" is barely a blip on the "horrible comics" radar, and even if you took away the deluge of terrible independent books out there, "NFL SuperPro" is really just a crappy cash-in comic that Fabian Nicieza only wrote to score free tickets. Of course it wasn't gonna be anything to write home about.

(Cut to a shot of another "NFL SuperPro" comic, Issue 6)

Linkara (v/o): Honestly, from what I can tell, the only thing of note about "NFL SuperPro" is that apparently Issue 6 caused some outrage from Hopi Indians because of the depiction of a villain as supposedly embracing traditional Hopi beliefs.

Linkara: And given my current rate of reviewing "NFL SuperPro" issues, I'm sure to reopen old wounds about that book some time around 2045.

(Cut to a shot of another football comic from Marvel "Kickers Inc.")

Linkara (v/o): Hell, "SuperPro" wasn't even Marvel's first foray into football-themed characters. The short-lived New Universe imprint of Marvel in the late '80s brought us "Kickers Incorporated", a book that suffered creative problems by originally intending to be a very tongue-in-cheek adventure book that ran into problems due to the goal of the new universe being grounded in realism.

Linkara: Fortunately, (makes "finger quotes") "grounded in realism" is not really something we need to worry about when it comes to "NFL SuperPro".

(Cut to a shot of "NFL SuperPro #2")

Linkara (v/o): So why am I not looking the second issue, since we're coming back to the book? Well, that's because the first issue of the series was not actually the characters' first appearance or origin issue.

(Cut to a shot of the comic of review for today)

Linkara (v/o): That came in the book (dramatically) "NFL SuperPro Special Edition #1"!

Linkara: Ah, yes, the "special edition" of something that premiered before the regular edition did. So let's dig into "NFL SuperPro Special Edition #1", and answer that question we all have...

(Cut to a shot of the MST3K gang watching Laserblast)

Mike Nelson: Are you ready for some football?!

(AT4W title sequence is shown, followed by the title card for this episode, accompanied by FOX's NFL theme)

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