Chapter Three
Ivan returned to weight-lifting, but I just stared at him, unable to believe what he’d just told me.
I knew who Nuclear Winter was. Or, at least, knew of him, because he was featured predominantly in the history books about the history of superhumans in the United States. He was the first known supervillain and was the whole reason that Ultimate Max had been built in the first place.
It was thirty years ago, back in 1987, about a year after Dad, Omega Man, and all of the other first neoheroes first appeared. By then, superhumans were becoming more and more known. Most of the public superhumans at the time had been heroes or at least tried to be, with most using their powers for good, stopping criminals, helping people in natural disasters, and so on. Those few that weren’t
