No Superman flight or Spider-Man swing will be spotted at this local comic thing.

With personal stories and imagination swirled, original independent comics will be at Tasty World.

In its sixth year, Fluke Mini-Comics Festival is back again to showcase independent artists.

Robert Newsome, the grandmaster of Fluke (or “chief of surgery,” as he called himself), said it’s not like the bigger conventions focusing on superhero comics.

“We’re not necessarily trying to distance ourselves from that, but it just seems there’s a wider spectrum of self-published material that that doesn’t reflect,” he said. “What we do is spotlight the regional independent artists, regardless of what they are doing – whether it is comics or writing.”

At Tasty World this Saturday, one can expect to find a laid-back environment perfect for chatting about everything comics.

“Anybody who’s got anything they want to show off, we sit them behind a bar table and let them go at it,” Newsome said.

Andy Runton, creator of the character “Owly,” has attended Fluke for the past few years.

“It’s a great place to meet other people, see what everyone else is doing, and make new friends and new fans,” he said. “It’s sort of like an independent film festival, but for comics.”

In an e-mail interview Dean Trippe, writer of the strip “Butterfly,” said he thought Fluke is a great place for artists to get their name out there.

“There’s usually a good group of creators from the region at the show, as well as some of the better small publishers,” he said. “And everyone remembers the best mini-comics from the show.”

Any artists can bring submissions to be immortalized in the Fluke Anthology. If approved, it will appear in the collection published by Little House Comics later this year.

Fluke was started in 2002 by T. Edward Bak after the Small Press Expo in Maryland was cancelled due to the events of 9/11.

“It started just sort of as a fill in for people from the area who didn’t have a chance to go to the big self-publishing Small Press Expo,” Newsome said.

But Runton said just because someone doesn’t create comics doesn’t mean they should feel turned off from Fluke.

“It’s meant for everyday people; that’s exactly what independent comics are all about.”