Flyboy Action Figure Comes with a Gas Mask - by Jim Munroe (Paperback)

About the Book

Ryan Slint can turn into a fly. Cassandra, a waitress at a greasy-spoon, can make things disappear. They were made for each other . . . and to fight crime!

Book Synopsis

Ryan is a university student dealing with the normal problems of a 22-year-old guy -- shyness, virginity, weird roommates, and a massive crush on Cassandra, a waitress at his local greasy spoon. (Oh, and a freakish ability to change into a fly.) When he finally gets up the nerve to ask Cassandra for a date, he learns that the two have more in common than they first thought. (Turns out that Cassandra can make things disappear.)

Sharing their secrets for the first time, Ryan and Cassandra realize they were made for each other...and to battle forces of evil! Inspired by Sailor Moon, they team up to fight the villians in their own backyard, taking on cigarette barons, right wing newspapers, and the overzealous local police. But can the Superheroes for Social Justice transform the world in time? Find out in...

From the Back Cover

Ryan is a shy university student who can turn into a fly.

Cassandra is a waitress at a greasy spoon who can make things disappear.

In a world of political revolutionaries, indie rockers, zinesters, hardcore feminists, rave kids and slackwater poets, they are the Superheroes for Social Justice -- battling cigarette barons, redneck tabloids, the patriarchy, and other forces of evil!

Impossible, you say?

So what?

Review Quotes

"Fun and young and exactly the sort of thing to prove that there is such a thing as a post-Hemingway young man's novel". -- NOW MAGAZINE