Superior (comics)

Superior is a creator-owned comic book series written by Mark Millar and illustrated by Leinil Francis Yu, following a young boy with multiple sclerosis who sells his soul to become a superhero.

The series' protagonist, Simon Pooni, would return in Kick-Ass: The Dave Lizewski Years – Book Four in 2014, Superior: Symptoms in 2017, and Big Game in 2023.

An alien monkey named Ormon appears at Simon's bedside, informing the boy that of all the people on Earth, he has been granted the honor of being bestowed a single magic wish.

The demon approaches an old bully of Simon, and offers him a similar wish, to become Superior's fictional nemesis, Abraxas; the only caveat is that he must pledge himself to Satan.

Guinness World Record Special) was written, penciled, inked and lettered in less than 12 hours and sold as a limited 10,000 copy book with all proceeds from its sales going to Yorkhill Sick Children's Hospital in Scotland.

Now a teenager, after two agents of the Fraternity of Super-Criminals, Jackie and Trey, are sent after him while the group is in the process of assassinating the world's superheroes, they are shaken to learn of his backstory and inability to become Superior again, before reluctantly atomising him, with Simon dissolving into "a magnificent burst of light and purple flowers".

Writer Mark Millar signing a copy of the series' collected edition during an appearance at Midtown Comics .