An underpaid comic writer, loosely based on Alan Moore, played by an incredibly hairy Daniel Day Lewis finds a rocket pack stolen from Howard Hughes, and uses it to save friends from crashing airplanes at airshows, win back his girlfriend after he gets her fired from her acting job, and struggles with the ethics of taking revenge on dozens and dozens of screenwriters, producers and directors who’ve taken his brilliant, complex comics and turned them into mediocre movies.  Eventually he decides its worth poisoning them printers ink, but takes his name off the project at the last minute.