A R Maxwell

Random Man A R Maxwell

Randy Regal has a very unique problem. Every year on his birthday, Randy wakes up with a new superpower. To date, he's got seventeen, and he hasn't figured out how to control a single one. He catches people's hair and clothing on fire, magnetically rips school lockers off the walls, and occasionally freezes to his chair. At the Academy for Super Police where he and his brother Alex are training to be Super Cops, people avoid Randy like he's going to blow them up - which he might. When one of Randy's superpowers ambushes him at the worst possible time and causes a terrible accident, Randy is expelled from the Academy and humiliated. Desperate, Randy enrolls in the Western Academy for Super Police - a dusty, underfunded government school for Academy dropouts. Buried deep in the hidden canyon town of Heliotrope and with only five misfit students, a handful of bedraggled teachers, and a dormitory with a chemical lab in the bathroom, WASP is a weird, outcast place that introduces Randy to something he never knew existed - people like him. But as he struggles to open up to his new friends and control his wayward powers, Randy is haunted by Typhon, a dragon-like villain who threatens Randy's friends, his new school, and his life. Can Randy uncover Typhon's master plan, keep seventeen superpowers from burning down the school, get a date with his crush, and pass superhero ethics in one explosive school year? He's not sure he can.