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Unemployed Man: A New Comic Hero for Our Troubled Time


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Tough times call for creative solutions, so Erich Origen and Gan Golan created a superhero that responds to a different kind of call for help wanted: Unemployed Man. 

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Unemployed Man can send out 1,000 resumes in the flash of an eye.

In better times, Unemployed Man was a hero called The Ultimatum—a misguided, vigilante telling the world to pull itself up by the bootstraps, by reading his self-help books

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Gan Golan: "White Rage seems to be really popular. He's similar to the Incredible Hulk, but instead of a green monster he turns into a white monster because he's exposed to too many Fox News rays, and then goes on a rage and destroys all

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Author Gan Golan dresses up as Master of Degrees for interviews, even for phone interviews with GOOD. "I like to visit junior high and high school classes and give empowering speeches on the dangers of educating yourself," he jokes. "I&

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Official bio: "After she refused to breastfeed Wonder Baby in the supply closet at FiasCo, she was fired. She now lives in an invisible jet, her last possession—which she built from the nearly indestructible glass ceiling at her former empl

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Official bio: "After The Broker made a joke of his 401K, he can't afford to retire—but most heroes won't hire him because of his age. After meeting Unemployed Man in a job line, he soon becomes his new sidekick."

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