In Nora’s Alternate Universe, the wicked Black Azira is the Dark Queen who rules with absolute evil, and who also bears a startling resemblance to Nora’s mother Diana. As the Black Azira hatches a cunning plan with her council to allow the evil magic of her empire to reign supreme in the Universe, Nora engages the help of her Superhero friends to stop the Black Azira.

But alas, the Superfriends are themselves in need of help. Superman will fly but not in the way she expects; Batman is in love with Robin; Robin can’t get out of his second-best funk; Spiderman has self-esteem issues and the Incredible Hulk can’t find his temper. Nora finds her way up Mount Olympus, where Aristotle guides her with the wisdom of the Greek Gods. She is told she shares the bloodlines of the mighty opposites of good and evil, and is the only one who can restore order. With this new faith, Nora uses her Superhuman touch and rallies the distracted Superfriends together for a final battle with The Black Azira.

Back in the Real Universe, Diana Mowwend is struggling: to cut a decent life for her daughter Nora; and protect herself from her violent and abusive 2^nd husband, Nora’s step-dad. While luck has never favoured Diana, Nora has some help from her father’s old and dog-eared DC and Marvel comic books with missing pages.

And because good always triumphs over evil in the stories, Nora reads and re-reads the comic books despite the big gaps in their narratives. And where there are pages missing, she makes up the strips with her imagination.

But the daily cycle of love and violence becomes increasingly desperate, as Nora grows older. Diana finds that she needs to save Nora from this living hell, and one day, finds the only solution she knows. As the extent of Diana’s sacrifice becomes clear, Nora realizes that the Superhero she has been searching so hard for did not ultimately lie in the missing comic pages, but with her mother.

Journey with Nora as she meshes reality with comic book fiction and finds the human in her Superheroes in the same way they find heroes in her humans, and discover that together with epic strength and gigantic courage, understanding, compassion and love are also Super powers.

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