The Year Before the Super Heroes

What do super heroes do when they are not fighting with super villains? Okay, what do they do besides fighting with other super heroes? This is the year zero. Next year The Event will happen that will create super powered people who become either heroes or villains. Here are the bored rich, the brilliant scientists, the poor fools unlucky enough to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is what they were doing the year before.