A temp worker is ill-used by the small-time villain she works for and badly injured by a reckless superhero. Turns out they picked the wrong hench to mess with — one who is tired of the grind of the gig economy, deeply cynical about superheroes, really freaking good at data research and analysis, and now enduring a long convalescence on a friend's couch. With nothing better to do, she begins to obsessively analyze the life and property damage that supers cause, showing that the whole superhero system is a sham and a menace. When she's offered a job with a real villain, working for a real salary with excellent benefits, the job comes with the opportunity to crunch more than just the numbers when it comes to the whole messy superhero situation. She takes that opportunity —carefully but gleefully, and with a vengeance that reminds us that we're, uh, kinda rooting for the bad guys here.

Or maybe there's no "kinda" about it.

Either way, prepare yourself to sit with some moral ambiguity and some outright? borderline? quasi? unquestionable? evil in a story that refuses to ignore the complexities of life for the convenience of a morality tale. There's no simple good and evil in a world where supervillains can be fair and thoughtful employers and superheroes can be egotistical vigilantes who cause more harm than they prevent. But that doesn't mean there isn't a morality tale hiding in here somewhere — you'll find it between the horror and the humor and the humanity.

Content notes: strong language, job insecurity, kidnapping, superpowered battles, death, murder, lies, infidelity, open-skull surgery, off-screen torture/interrogation, body horror