Electro has been down on his luck ever since a freak lightning strike gave him power over electricity. But all the money he's saved over his criminal career has been wiped out in the process of the government bailing out the banks. And now, as he's gotten older, his powers have become far less stable - to the point of interfering with having a normal life. Fed up with seeing the government spend billions of dollars to bail out fat-cat billionaires, Max Dillon hits the streets, starting a grass-roots movement that sparks when Dexter Bennet manages to get a bailout for his beleaguered newspaper, the DB!