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We're the Superfam Big Bang ❤ thanks for joining us! 🌻 mobile header art by @comickergirl. primary icon from SB'94 issue 97 / secondary icon by deven895

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Welcome to the Superfam Big Bang! We're so excited to have you here - thanks for joining us!

This blog will be a central hub for the Superfam themed Big Bang event in 2026, as well as a fun place to share Superfam art or events in the lead up to the Big Bang.

Navigation:

FAQ | Schedule | Ask box | General Queries | SIGN UPS OPEN FOR 2026!

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Woah! We're almost a full week into our sign-ups being open :o

There's still plenty of time left to make up your mind and come join the fam - sign ups are available here!

FAQ | Schedule

[noodles-and-tea]

I like when he sits in the sky :)

[crowwkui]

house of el mix ♫

[lokutofu]

Jon Kent you deserve the world

[memento-me]

After months of not posting... i have reappeared to share supergirl angst. Yippee.

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Welcome!!! The Superfam Big Bang sign ups for 2026 are now officially open!

Please check out our FAQ and our Schedule, or, if you're already hype and have read through the information docs for the event, come join us via the sign ups form!

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Hey! Never done a big bang so a question about how it works for artists - do we get a choice of what fic we get paired with? E.g., if I’m only interested in drawing a few superfam characters, can I request this or are we matched randomly?

It can differ per event, but our particular bang runs off a ranking system!

What this means is:

Authors will pass their pitch ideas through to the mod team pre-matchups (I'll post an example under the cut), and all the pitch ideas will then be collected in one document with a number to anonymize them. Artists then rank their favourite idea at number 1! And proceed down their preference list until they've picked at least five projects they'd be interested in (*dependent on number of projects & number of artists).

Mods then go through the list and try and match everyone to their highest preference. It means you may get your first pick (if you pick something not everyone has indicated interest on!), but at minimum you will get something as high as we can match.

I think last year we only had one project with a five-match; everyone else got first or second preference, and a few got their third preference :) I can post the (anonymous) statistics if you're interested in what it looks like from a mod perspective/the ranking data, but it also does depend on what projects people are most drawn to 🤭

I think the thing to keep in mind, too; if you have specific characters you like to draw for, nothing is stopping you from picking a scene from your author's fic that has that character! Or, because this is a collab, sneaking in your own agenda ;3c (I know in a few of my fics for previous bangs, I gave extra characters more prominent roles because I knew my art partner liked them!)

Example of pitch summary:

Fic Title: eight legs hit the wall

Primary character focus: Kon-el, Kon-el & Young Justice, Timkon

Rating: T

Projected word count: 35k

Summary:

The creation of Spiderboy; or, what's in a name? Kon's not entirely sure how he got his; or, Bart and Cassie blackmail Lex Luthor into allowing his genetic experiment/son to have a life of his own and/or an internship as a normal boy; or, aka "The Incident".

It's a lot of things to a lot of people, but Kon mostly just thinks of it as the first day he met his friends.

Extract: (500 words or less):

"Don’t go in there,” he orders.

Cassie scowls, brilliant and sharp, with teeth bared. “Why?” she demands, “Does Lex have more metahumans on lockdown in his literal personality-muck around lab-"

"What? No. That's my bedroom. There's like-” implanted knowledge says 'underwear' is the embarrassing answer, even if it's true, so- “dead bodies and stuff. On the floor.”

They do not look comforted. He’s starting to think TV and the tube have not given him a great deal of social skills.

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metal

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Bang Beginnings (June - July)

June 1st: sign-ups open

July 20th: sign-ups close

Check-ins and Match-ups (August - September - October):

August 15th: Authors - soft check-in #1 (initial pitch ideas)

September 10th: 10k warning!

September 20th-21st: major check-in #1: summary document/pitch document for artist review

September 30th-October 4th: Artists - summary document and project preference submission

October 8th: Artist/Author match-ups released

Check-ins and Progress (October - November - December)

October: Author/Artist check-ins

November 11th to 15th: Artist check-in #1: sketches

December 11th to 15th: Artist check-in #2: lineart / sketches chosen and in progress

Finalisation, Posting, and pinch-hits (January - February - March)

January 14th: Final check-in

February 3rd: Pinch hits identified

February 17: Posting dates organised

March 1st to March 31st: Posting period!

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Welcome!!! The Superfam Big Bang sign ups for 2026 are now officially open!

Please check out our FAQ and our Schedule, or, if you're already hype and have read through the information docs for the event, come join us via the sign ups form!

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i made some art on superman's day on this april but forgot to post it here btw happy pride everybody!!❤🧡💛💙💚💜

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Hii I had a question about the schedule. Is today the last day for sign ups or did they just open? I'm just a wee bit confused by the dates listed. Thank you so much for running this event!

Hello! 🥰 Sign ups for 2026 have just opened (yesterday!) but the schedule may have had the 2025 dates when you checked it :3

I mentioned in the sign up post tags that the schedule wasn't fully updated when the sign ups were posted, but I plan to update them now!

The 2026 dates should be available in about 30m.

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Welcome!!! The Superfam Big Bang sign ups for 2026 are now officially open!

Please check out our FAQ and our Schedule, or, if you're already hype and have read through the information docs for the event, come join us via the sign ups form!

[zai-doodles]

hey gang i like superfam a lot

ive spent so long thinking abt them and basically made my own au/superfam-verse

if u send me asks abt it ill explain but ill spare everyone for now

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Sign ups will open June 1st!

Check out our FAQ [mobile link] for details of the 2026 Superfam Big Bang🎉

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Hello! 👋👋

One piece of feedback we received last year was more support for the artists, as both mods were writers. As a result, this is a general interest call for an art support mod, if anyone is interested!

Being a mod doesn't mean you have to participate in the event, but it does mean you'll need to help encourage and support the artists of the bang 🥰 (and sometimes me, when I want to check the wording of a post! :P) Potentially it will also involving looking over or making graphics, depending on your level of desired involvement. If that sounds of interest to you, please reach out here or to @authenticaussie !

Otherwise, as a general update, should hopefully have most of the blog & sign-ups ready by 25/05 💪❤️