The best time to kill a superhero is before he becomes one. Scrawny seventeen-year-old Theodore Conley shocks himself and everyone else by tossing three big bullies around like they are wads of paper and Theo is aiming for the trash can. Now that he has superpowers, suddenly everyone expects Theo to do great things. He doesn't want to do anything great, however. It's too much work and too dangerous. Unless it's safe and involves Theo finally getting a girlfriend, he's not interested. Theo gets more danger than he can handle when a supervillain attacks. In self-defense, Theo is forced to pursue a hero's cape in superhero school, a frightening place of grueling humiliation, intense combat training, and deadly tests. Theo soon finds that even just a potential superhero gets an archenemy. The problem is Theo's doesn't want to just defeat him. His archenemy wants to kill him.