“I don’t know why they put me in charge. I mean, I spent most of my life disappointing my parents and my teachers. One or the other, you know?” — Peter Slinger “You’re sure there’s a town up this road,” Mandy said. “Absolutely sure?” “Hey, I’m just going off the map,” Peter said. Kyle and [...]

“When those men came aboard, I admit a small part of me was just so happy to see an adult that I didn’t pay much attention to Peter or Mandy’s strange caution. Finally, I thought, someone’s going to take charge and fix everything. I don’t know exactly what it was that Mandy saw in their [...]

“I don’t care how many times someone tries to tell me that I’ve been blessed with this ‘gift.’ I couldn’t save my parents, and whenever we ran into trouble, all I could do was stand by and wait for it to end, just so I could pick up the pieces.” — Kyle Fitzpatrick Mandy came [...]

“We didn’t know at that point that the radiation wasn’t going to kill us. Peter told me later that he suspected that the adults died because they couldn’t adapt. Not every kid was immune, and not every kid that did survive was changed, but the adults that did make it had a hard time putting [...]

When I was a kid, I used to read a lot of comics. I was convinced that if I could only have super powers, all my problems would disappear. I outgrew most of that by the time I hit high school, but there was always that little voice in the back of my head that [...]