All Those Explosions Were Someone Else's Fault

Monsters are real.
But so are heroes.

Sparks are champions of weird science. Boasting capes and costumes and amazing super-powers that only make sense if you don t think about them too hard, they fight an eternal battle for truth and justice . . . mostly.

Darklings are creatures of myth and magic: ghosts, vampires, were-beasts, and the like. Their very presence warps reality. Doors creak at their approach. Cobwebs gather where they linger.

Kim Lam is an ordinary college student until a freak scientific accident (what else?) transforms Kim and three housemates into Sparks and drafts them into the never-ending war between the Light and Dark. They struggle to master their new abilities and (of course) to design cool costumes and come up with great hero-names.

Turns out that accident was just the first salvo in a Mad Genius s latest diabolical scheme. Now it s up to four newbie heroes to save the day, before they even have a chance to figure out what their team s name should be