Nelson Samuels is a graduate student, working on a degree in History, specifically the history of Supers. When Gilpatrick Matos, the 'Agent of Karma', a small-time Super who claims to be 'the world's pre-eminent authority on Super-History' offers him a series of interviews, it's not like he can refuse. When the guy turns out to be handsome, charming, and pays for lunch while they talk? As a student, Nelson certainly can't pass up the free lunch. When 'Achilles', Gilpatrick's longstanding sometime-partner, sometime-nemesis, and long time rival shows up claiming that Gilpatrick is wrong about which of them is the authority on History, Nelson can't just let that opportunity pass up either. Of course, nobody told him one of the biggest secrets of the Super community, because even most of the Supers think it's a myth, and those who believe try to bury it; whenever Achilles and Gilpatrick are close enough to recognize one another? All hell breaks loose.