The First Ten: H-E-R-O

                                 Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

3. Powers and Abilities Part 3

Writer: Will Pfeifer
Artist: Kano

Aw, jeez. What a downer.

Jerry rushes the dying drug dealer to the hospital just in time to save him from dying, but he flees before the police can question him. Desperate, he calls Molly, his crush from work, and asks her out. To his surprise, she says yes! At work, the original owner of the Dial shows up to retrieve it. While she suspects that Jerry has it and has been using it, she can't prove it.

Doesn't matter, though, because a robber who’s holding up the restaurant at that very moment takes Molly hostage at gunpoint. Jerry changes into a fire-based hero, and tells the dude to drop the gun, which he refuses to do. Molly is shot during the ensuing fight, and Jerry roasts the robber. He then runs off in a panic, pledging to use the dial "One. Last. Time".

This is a really good tension-building issue devoted to having Jerry reach his low point. It's a smart way to show that superheroing is not as easy as it may look. And when you're bad at it, people get very hurt.

Kano and Dave Stewart make the fire hero look straight-up terrifying, by the way.

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