Vulkan (The Blacksmith of Very Bad Things) was the world's greatest supervillain twenty years ago. Then something unique happened. His fiendish plot for world domination - transforming most of the world's energy sources into fruity flavors of gelatin - actually worked. Now Vulkan has everything he ever wanted - the world at his feet, his own island paradise, a decimated superhero community, a beautiful ex-superheroine wife, and a genetically engineered miniature elephant with a genius level IQ. But ruling the world is not all it is cracked up to be. His tyrannical regime is a bureaucratic drudgery, his kids may be plotting to kill him, and there is no one left to fight - until Vulkan comes face to face with a shadow from the past desperate for revenge and the one foe he doesn't know how to defeat - his own mortality. Is it too late for him to turn the world on its head one more time, and if so, how will he be remembered? As the greatest villain in generations or as a hero?