Long ago, in the before times, young Jameel was at the mall with his mother, wandering alone as he was wont to do, when he saw a rack of comic books. Seeing one with a flying man with his head on fire, he picked it up and read it. Disturbed by the concept of two people combining into one, but strangely intrigued, he asked his mother for this comic. His request was denied.

Fast-forward to the early 80s, time of cutoff shirts on guys, when Jameel was shopping for books to take to summer camp. He found a spinner of comics at Stop 'n' Go, and one of them was an issue of Firestorm, that very comic he'd been denied all those years ago. He and his godbrother CJ started reading Firestorm monthly at approximately the same time. Eventually, having become nothing like the comic it started as, Firestorm was cancelled for the second time.

Dateline: 2004. Firestorm is revived once again, but as a black man. Never in a hundred years would Jameel or Curt (as CJ was now known) have expected such a thing. Not only had Firestorm returned, not only was he black, but he had an action figure released. As Curt had long since stopped reading comics, he was unaware, but Jameel had never stopped. When the task of mailing something awesome came up, Jameel knew what he had to do. He had an extra Firestorm figure, and he had a digital archive of every Firestorm comic made. The awesome is in the mail even as I type this.