Superbad is strangely amusing. One reason for this is that the site presents a challenge through its huge web of links to different odds and ends of pointless goodies. Americans love pointlessness: as long as it's pretty we really don't care if it has a point, so if we come across a cute anime-style cartoon that points to links to mysterious texts combined with equally enigmatic images, we do not care.
This is part of Superbad's main attraction, I suppose. There are cute cartoon characters here and there, and you just want to find them, but the navigation is so hard that you cannot figure out how to get back to all the cute pages! Oh, it just turns my digital smiley face into a frown! :-) -> :-(
On a serious note, I do ponder the existence of Superbad. Unlike Absurd with its techno destroy messages, and Lucas with her honest attempts at web art, Superbad exists without reason. I can honestly say, I enjoy the strange fragments of text combined with pixelated images. There is no anger, no sci-fi channel angst like that of Absurd. There is merely a tangle, a mindbending mess of links, and about this mess I will make this comment: like egg rolls at a chinese buffet, you can't eat just one. You want to eat all the links, no matter how much time it wastes or what you find.
Superbad revels in the human want to collect random items and be intrigued by them, as well. The site is composed of a seemingly random collection of web-arty items. The design goes from simple to convoluted, the concepts range from the exaggerated telling of human endeavors which read like schoolyard rumors(the "superbee" story for instance) to seeing the ridiculous boundaries we set up for ourselves (the posture guide). The main objective is to propose all of these elements in a humorous and captivating way.
I keep coming across silly gems, though: an animated ape (Planet of the Apes style) image that moves according to the movement of the viewer's mouse, an application to the US embassy, random stories about superheroes and god and cigarettes, floating boxes that contain tiny UFOs hovering above Japanese text. I will not offer you links. You must find them yourself. In fact, I would say Superbad is high art in the context of web art, because web art is different from all art in one very special way: its high level of interactivity (not to mention accessibility, for this is art to be had in the home). Superbad is so interactive that, like absurd, no viewer can have the same experience. So much rests on what pixel you click. All web art (or at least, web art that seeks to make a statement about interactivity) should be like a visual choose-your-own-adventure novel. Superbad is.