Brian Matthews was sent to get the news on the latest batch of superheroes created by an alien artifact - and ends up with powers of his own! But his powers aren't immediately apparent to others, because he has gained the Super Reporter System, which grants him the abilities that all star reporters are supposed to have.

When a victim of a truck accident declines to reincarnate into a fantasy world, the way is opened for one of them to cross over into a world much like our own. The child whose place they were to take is summoned from the other side, back to almost Earth.