Creating Yanzek Hestal

How the world's greatest unknown superhero immortalized a friendship.

A non-human artist’s rendering of Yanzek Hestal in full flight.

The greatest superhero you’ve never heard of was born into a family of reindeer herders in a small village in Finland’s frozen north. When Yanzek Hestal emerged from his mother’s body, newspapers reported that he neither kicked nor screamed. Instead, he glowed, covered from head to toe in th…