>>112675384The plot moves quick and there's no status quo...but to summarize.
The Principal of Garfield High School in Freeland America, Gold Medalist and Decathalete, was in his youth the Vigilante Super Hero Black Lightning. Thought killed, he actually just retired after he believed he got his vengeance on the mobster Tobias Whale that killed his dad as a kid.
Freeland was a testing ground for Vaccines that activated the Metagene over the years carried about by the shadowy government agency known as the ASA.
A major street gang known as The 100 has been spreading Green Light around, a drug that was created by the ASA to continue the experiment decades later, and their distributor is the seemingly ageless and alive albino Tobias Whale.
Organized Crime bosses and Government liasons drop like flies. The former ASA metahuman Spotter and Spook Gambi raised Jefferson and has supported him before as black lightning.
Jefferson comes out of retirement after a Lt of the 100 kidnaps his own daughter from his own school. And later learns Tobias Whale is still alive as his community suffers casualties and hardship from this war with gang bangers and manipulators from all sides.
Jefferson Pierce, Black Lightning, fails to find the balance between his returned hero life and family life as it becomes the reignition of his long in seperation marriage, and brings him both closer to and further from his daughters as they begin to inherit his metahuman potential.
