Story synopsis:
“Futureman: Hero of the 25th Century” chronicles the coming-of-age story of Vince Powerson, an African-American teenager born and raised in 25th-Century New York City, living with “Doc Vic”, his scientist/engineer father, Valerie, his police detective mother, and Vivi, his younger sister, while doing normal things for even future teenagers, like going to school, playing games/sports, & spending time with friends, like Will & Adam.Vince also lives a secret double-life as the inter-temporal superhero known as Futureman, whose advanced-tech suit can use wormholes to create cosmic openings to warp through space & time, and is tasked with defending his city from various threats in his own futuristic world, along with protecting humanity from the altering of the space-time continuum caused by rogue time-travelers seeking to gain wealth, fame or power, often much at history’s expense.
While he sometimes does struggle with dealing with/juggling the civilian and superhero sides of his life, his adventures throughout American & World History also help him navigate through his challenges by teaching him valuable academic & moral life lessons, along with meeting with new friends & even new family members from these time periods, including Izzy Lumi, his best friend from the 21st-Century who is a teenage girl, tech genius, and later in life will invent the world’s first LumiGlove (a hand-wearable Smartphone widely used by people in the future).
Title Character: Futureman – Superhero who uses both time-travel and futuristic technology to help protect the world and its people from the altering of key historic events through time, along with from other global threats and crises occurring within his own future time period. He is seen here emerging from a wormhole, his primary means of traveling through spacetime.
