The Adventures of Man Man and FastForward

The Adventures of Man Man and FastForward is an American comic book series jointly published by and  in association with. The series is a self-parody on the superhero genre, based on parody figures such as Capcom's Man Man; a parody of the Bad Box Art Mega Man; and Marvel's Buried Alien / FastForward; a parody of '.

Characters

 * Man Man: An overweight, yet capable, human who uses his numerous gadgets to stop crime despite his arrogance and displacement in a world filled with Robot Masters.
 * FastForward (John Manley / "Buried Alien"): A speedster who arrived from another universe without any knowledge of his past, and chose to take up the moniker of a superhero to discover others with extraordinary abilities to manifest a connection. Despite rendering himself as "Buried Alien", he now goes by "John Manley" and has designed a new purple-grey costume. The character was changed heavily from his original appearance to make him more distinctive from his DC counterpart.
 * Torch Man: A Robot Master skilled in the martial art of Torch-jutsu and an outdoor advisor to campers who teaches about fire safety, while also maintaining his own firey abilities. He is very disciplined and relies on the Power Gear to heighten his abilities. Torch Man was selected to appear as a main character after being the result of a fan-made Robot Master personality quiz that Richard Shepard took based around . Coincidentally, Torch Man reminded Richard Shepard with many similarities to his own fictional character from Shogun.