Source: comicvine.gamespot.com

5. Meet Matt Allen

Writer: Will Pfeifer
Artist: Kano

And now we move into the rest of the series. Someone else gets the H Dial, uses it, and then loses it.

This one is a one-shot about the titular Matt Allen, an executive at a nameless company with a wife and one kid. He finds the H Dial, and can't resist using it to turn into heroes and save people. It becomes an addiction, and as it dominates his life more and more, he loses his job, his daughter hates him, and his wife thinks he's having an affair.

But he doesn't care, because the H Dial is all that matters. Eventually, his wife takes his daughter and leaves. Matt doesn't quite mind"¦until he realizes that he can't find the H Dial. Why? Because the H Dial is miles away, clutched in his 13-year-old daughter's hands and speeding toward  Chicago.

This is my favorite single issue in the series, to be honest. It's a complete story that’s compelling and tragic, and it’s a great way to show us the book’s potential for telling different kinds of stories of any length.