Hey, all you super friends, you want to get good together?

You want to skip math together?

You want to punch bad guys together?

It's not that I haven't used my words, is that nobody listens to me, and I can shoot fire!

One, two, three, four! One, two, three, four! The F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in the Great Gatsby.

Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall. That explains why so many

high schoolers read the Great Gatsby every school year. The red, orange, and yellow blaze of trees

is most resonant with new beginnings for those of us 18 and younger. That and the fact that there are literal eyes

watching the depraved things the rich characters are doing. It's symbolism needed for starting

critical literacy in people's brains. Honestly, no matter what the age, go read the great Gatsby.

It's a good book. So, players, how's this for symbolism?

The first page of our comic is divided in half.

The top, The Brilliant Colors of September in Jupiter, New York.

A suburb of the bustling superpowered metropolis Lake Town City in upstate New York.

That's so good.

It is 90 minutes by train and 65 minutes if you're flying and speeding.

In the background is the vibrant confetti of a fall forest, but what grabs our attention is the shining chrome entrance to Waters Edge Academy, named one of the five best high schools in all of New York State, if not the entire East Coast.

Nowhere else will you get an education for your powers, your character, your mind, and your literal superpowers.

We see the sun glistening off the water of the lake and the various tentative bridges that connect the island that water edge purchase upon to the actual suburb of Jupiter.

It's divided so obviously that symbolism.

Here's some more symbolism.

The bottom half of our page is divided by a darkening waterline.

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