Fission Chicken

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Fission Chicken
Fission Chicken has problems with the TV. Art by J.P. Morgan.
Author(s)	J.P. Morgan
Website	http://www.fissionchicken.com
Current status / schedule	Weekly
Launch date	1987 (online April 16, 2006)
Genre(s)	Superhero, Anthropomorphic Parody

Fission Chicken is a comic book character created by J.P. Morgan. Fission Chicken is a short-tempered superhero chicken who can fly, is extremely strong, bulletproof, and can project power bolts from his hands.

Starting in 1987, Fission Chicken appeared in numerous stories published in the comic book Critters (Fantagraphics Books), as well as his own series from the same publisher. Other appearances over the years include Plan Nine from Vortox (MU Press), appearances in Furrlough (Radio Comix), Valiant Varmints and SFA Spotlight #14 (Shanda Fantasy Arts).

Fission Chicken fights a continuing battle against weird monsters and cultural brain death. Notably, he has battled the mind control attempts of Vortoxians (a malevolent race of alien marketing experts), the Ditsy entertainment empire (a parody of The Walt Disney Company), and Video Zombies. Some unusual opponents he has fought include the Ether Bunny (a rabbit bank-robber who uses airborne incapacitating agents on his victims), necromancer P.U. Evolcraft, ambulatory living toilets, the movie monster Ferdie Cruller (a pun on Freddy Kruger), the Dero, and his own evil duplicate. Other characters in the series include Monica Fether (his beautiful girlfriend -- who can also fire energy bolts), Skip Squirrelhard (his P.I. friend, who also wants to be a writer), and Norman Gnu (free-sprited mystic, AKA Normannu the Gnostic Gnu).