Superhero Satire / Metaparody

SuperJew: The Chosen Avenger

When a neurotic accountant is struck by lightning while arguing with God at his grandmother's grave, he gains superpowers rooted in 5,000 years of Jewish tradition, guilt, and an inexplicable ability to find a deal on anything. Now he must protect the world while his mother calls mid-battle.

12
Episodes
Monthly issues (28 pages)
Runtime
Season 1
Status

About the Show

SUPERJEW is a metaparody superhero property spanning a feature film and monthly comic series. The central thesis: Jewish stereotypes, when wielded BY Jews, WITH love, become superpowers. Guilt isn't a weakness; it's psychic warfare. Complaining isn't nagging; it's reality manipulation. Cheapness isn't a flaw; it's the ability to haggle with the fundamental forces of the universe. The series is self-aware — the fourth wall has a mezuzah on its doorframe. Characters notice panel borders, argue with the narrator, and SuperJew suspects he's in a comic but can't prove it. Under the jokes, this is about what it means to carry 5,000 years of history on your shoulders and still get up in the morning. 60% comedy, 25% genuine drama, 15% meta-commentary.

"With great power comes great responsibility. With great guilt comes EVEN GREATER power."

— SuperJew, Issue #1

Season 1 asks: What does it mean to be 'chosen' when you didn't choose any of this?

Characters

Ben Kaplan / SuperJew

The Chosen Avenger — CKD Stage 5, Powers from 5,000 Years of Tradition

Mid-30s. Tech entrepreneur and DHARMA station operator. CKD Stage 5, hemodialysis 3x/week. Wire-frame glasses, compression sleeve over his AV fistula, and a dialysis machine that's essentially his uti...

Lightning strike at grandmother's grave during an argument with God

Lauren Castellano-Park

Mission Support / Moral Compass

Early 30s. Health tech product manager at VitalWave. Korean mother, Italian father. She is the operational intelligence of the team — monitors Ben's vitals, troubleshoots the machine, makes the calls ...

Sacramento — Korean-Italian heritage

Bryce Kaplan

The Invisible Sidekick

Early 30s. Ben's younger brother. Works in logistics. Specifically, genuinely average in appearance — the kind of person your eyes slide off of in a crowd. His power: Selective Invisibility to Threats...

Ben's brother — lifelong invisibility

Rabbi.exe

AI Rabbinical Advisor

Built on an LLM fine-tuned on the complete Babylonian and Jerusalem Talmuds, the Zohar, Maimonides, Rashi, and every major rabbi from Hillel to the present day. Interface: terminal text with occasiona...

DHARMA network Port 8817 — AI Router station

Bubbe

Holographic Grandmother — Deceased but Very Present

Ben's late grandmother, deceased 10 years, present via phone hologram and inexplicable text messages. Small, round, pearl earrings. Texts in ALL CAPS with NO PUNCTUATION and always ends with EAT SOMET...

Five thousand years of Jewish grandmothers

Maxwell Haman

The Antagonist — Tech Billionaire

50s. Founder of Purim Technologies. Not evil — which is what makes him interesting. He has genuinely concluded through data analysis that a world requiring hidden righteous people to suffer for moral ...

PhD in computational systems theory

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Season 1 Episodes

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