Thirteen Origins Florescent #1

(W) Hernan Gonzalez (A/CA) Jimena S Sarquiz. CHISPA: The Thirteen Origins is a series of one-shot origin stories for the members of The Thirteen* a group of Mexicans and Mexican Americans who discover they are chispas* able to wield impossible powers. Daniel de la Rosa hates his birthday-it's a day that serves as a stark reminder of how much he hates his dull* monotonous life. His eighteenth proves no different when his friends mock the shoes he wanted* get drunk using his birthday money* and then* once one of them gets dumped* start destroying a community garden. Except* Daniel can now hear the plants pleading with him to save them. Armed with new possibilities and new ways to bring people together* Daniel will need to figure out if he can be the right kind of spark to heal rifts between people and plants.