Powerless is an American comic book published by Marvel Comics. The six-issue limited series–written by Matt Cherniss and Peter Johnson, and illustrated by Michael Gaydos–began its monthly publication on August 1, 2004 and ended on January 1, 2005. It features characters from the Marvel Universe in a world where superpowers do not exist.
Plot summary
A psychologist named William Watts wakes up in a hospital after a three-day coma. Fresh in his mind is the world of Earth-616, which he experienced while asleep. As William returns to his mundane daily life, he encounters three familiar faces: Peter Parker, a high-school student who is pressured by Oscorp CEO Norman Osborn to conduct industrial espionage on Stark Industries; Matt Murdock, a blind lawyer who battles an uphill case against crime boss Wilson Fisk to absolve Frank Castle of murder; and Logan, an amnesiac soldier who is led to believe he murdered Charles Xavier, one of William's patients.
Inspired by Matt's conviction, William leaves his bystander position and begins to act to help the three: he helps reveal Charles' murder was done by a third party, citing Logan to investigate