Turmspringer - Highdiver Zero Hour

Do all superheroes have their roots in America?
Look back through history and you may come to a different conclusion - heroic stories and sagas have deeply European roots. Fans take it for granted that a character like Spiderman springs through downtown Manhatten. But things are different in Europe. Berlin as a playground for superheroes?
Zero Hour is part one of the Highdiver Project: a heroic sage, told in nine parts and stretching over three generations. The story was narrated and dictated to its authors by the figure of the Dive Master. Wich is why Zero Hour is less an introduction and more a leap into deep, cold water. Both metaphoric levels apply here: getting entangled in something unexpected and a sudden shift in place or medium. Many separate storylines are drown together in Zero Hour, all have already taken place and only a few converge for the first time. Each storyline unravels bit by bit in the parts that follow. But above all, the Highdiver Project is a story about what determines who you are, about the cards you're dealt at the outset and how you play them, because of - or could it be despite - who you are.
"No Story begins where it seems to begin: the roots of the tree are hidden from the eye, but they reach down to the waters." citat by Ethan Ben Hoshaja, Author of the King David Report (by Stefan Heym)