The characters range from a guy good with a shovel to one who throws forks to one who has incredible stinky farts to one with a haunted bowling ball to one who gets really pissed off to ...
Well, you get the idea.
The plot is silly, the action is silly, but in some way, it hangs together into a funny ride.
One of the heroes is The Sphinx, whose power is very mysterious -- plus he can cut guns in half with his mind -- and he becomes the trainer, teaching the rag-tag collection with enigmatic phrases that embody a wonderful circular logic. An exchange between The Sphinx and Mr. Furious:
Mr. Furious: Okay, am I the only one who finds these sayings just a little bit formulaic? "If you want to push something down, you have to pull it up. If you want to go left, you have to go right." It's --
The Sphinx: Your temper is very quick, my friend. But until you learn to master your rage --
Mr. Furious: -- your rage will become your master? That's what you were going to say. Right? Right?
The Sphinx: Not necessarily ...
Now and then I get into a discussion that reminds me of this ...