ALEXANDER THE GREATEST HERO

Fourteen-year-old Alexander Johnson has spent his entire life inside the mysterious Powers Compound, where scientists have studied every extraordinary thing his body can do. He can fly. He possesses incredible strength. His memory is nearly perfect. And despite his blond hair and blue eyes, Alexander is also a Black and Mexican kid trying to understand where he belongs in a world he has barely been allowed to experience.

When Alexander finally leaves the compound for a normal life in Highland Park, Los Angeles, he decides to do something that seems obvious to a boy raised on comic books: become a superhero.

Reality is considerably more complicated.

Alexander quickly discovers that having powers does not mean knowing how to help people. Some problems cannot be punched. Some people do not want to be rescued. The law and justice do not always agree. Public opinion can turn a hero into a villain overnight. And saving a hundred people does not make it easier to live with the one person you could not reach.

Across forty-eight interconnected issues spanning four formative years, Alexander grows from an idealistic teenager playing at superheroism into a young man forced to decide what the word hero actually means. Along the way he faces criminals, extremists, powerful institutions, complicated friendships, family tragedy, first love, betrayal, and enemies whose reasons for doing terrible things are sometimes frighteningly understandable.

At its heart, Alexander: The Greatest Hero is not a story about whether one boy is powerful enough to save the world.

It is about whether he can keep choosing to help people after discovering that doing the right thing can hurt, fail, cost everything and still be worth doing.

A coming of age superhero epic told like a four-year comic-book run, Alexander: The Greatest Hero explores identity, responsibility, grief, justice, family, and the enormous difference between having great power and becoming a good person.