Fission Chicken


Fission Chicken is a comic book and webcomic character created by John Patrick 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, published by Fantagraphics Books, as well as his own 4-issue series from the same publisher.
Other appearances over the years include Plan Nine from Vortox, appearances in Furrlough, Valiant Varmints and SFA Spotlight #14. Pages by J.P. Morgan can also be read on the Fission Chicken website.
Fission Chicken fights a continuing battle against weird monsters and cultural brain death. Notably, he has battled the mind control attempts of Vortoxians, the Ditsy entertainment empire, and Video Zombies. Some unusual opponents he has fought include the Ether Bunny, Percival Ulmer "P.U." Evolcraft, ambulatory living toilets, the movie monster Ferdie Cruller, the Dero, an army of incompetent and dull-witted invaders from the planet "Ineptune", and his own evil duplicate. Other characters in the series include Monica Fether, Skip Squirrelhard, Dr. Lawrence Livergut and Crouton, and Norman Gnu.
Unlike most superhero characters, Fission Chicken does not use an alias to hide his identity, and simply goes by the name "Fission Chicken". Several episodes reveal that his base of operations is an apartment in an unnamed city in New Jersey, and his friend Skip Squirrelhard is his upstairs neighbor.
"Fission Chicken" creator John Patrick Morgan died December 30, 2010 at the age of 53. His final online strip, the conclusion of a story arc, had appeared on Christmas Eve that year.