Every superhero has a story, a tale of how they discovered their ability and became a hero.
Some superheroes have tales of glory and some of woe. Some overcome great odds and personal trials. Some, on the other hand, just whine about it.
Clayton’s story is more of a cautionary tale, a long, often painful but sometimes hilarious journey towards that elusive goal of being a hero.
Just start with a lame superpower, add in an aversion to spandex, and everything else will follow.
- Introduction… Meet the Not-So-Super Superhero
- How the Not-So-Super Superhero Realized He Had a Power
- An Escape… but Not from Further Humiliation
- Sinister Deeds of… Bureaucracy?
- Control, Control, You Must Learn Control
- Rubber Ducky, You’re the One
- Always Blame the Parents
- No Money, No Answers
- The Hero Taken Down by… The Dreaded Chicken Pox
- The Even More Dreaded Spandex
- Spandex Can Take the Stretch
- Two Sides to the Spandex Story
- A Happy Accident?
- This Stinks… Literally and Metaphorically
- It Could Only Happen to Him
- The Not-So-Super Roommate
- The Roomate Has… Friends?
- Not-So-Super in School
- Lab Partners and Friends without Pants
- The Only Way to Eat Gummy Bears
- The War Over the Booth Begins
- The War Starts to Escalate
- Not a Proud Moment for the Not-So-Super Superhero
- An Attempt to Be Heroic
- Trying to Move On
- Complete Lack of Coordination
- Side Effects
- Then Comes the Tentacle
- Coping with the New Growth
- Reasons to Celebrate
- So Much for that Resolution
- Not So Funny Today
- Really Moving On
- The Raincheck
- Bring on the Costumes
- Dangers of Drinking Too Much
- Morning After Blues
- The Note
- Not So Happily Ever After
- Who Do You Trust?
- Every Good Hero Needs a Kick in the Pants
- Let the Spying Begin
- Of Video Games, References, and Ventilation Shafts
- Practice Makes Perfect… Or Not
- About Sidekicks
- Not So Super… but Sappy
- Best Something
- The Ex
- Some People Are Determined
- Day Jobs Get in the Way
- Desperate and a Bit Stupid
- Kids and Superheroes… and Costumes?
- Couldn’t Resist the Flames
- Conspiracies, Graduations, and More
- A Not-So-Super Wedding
- Receptions and Gummy Bear Nightmares
- Back to the Memo
- Cruel and Unusual Punishment?
- Doubts in the Quiet
- Conversations Are Never that Simple
- So Captured
- So So in Trouble
- A Change in Narrator
- Call It Technical Difficulties
- Finally Rescued
- The Last of the Waiting Game
- Starting Recovery
- That Limbo Between Recovery and the Next Action
- Only a Few Answers
- Majority Rules
- An Interlude and a Discovery
- Well, It Started Out Cute and Funny…
- Back on Track, Maybe
- The Plan Set in Motion
- Plan, Part Two
- A Bit of a Hitch in the Plan
- The Escape Phase of the Plan Begins
- Sometimes It Takes a While to Escape
- Surprise!
- After That Bombshell
- No Cavalry, but Maybe
- The Twenty Minute Rule
- Brief Lucidity
- Meanwhile, on the Other Side of Somewhere
- Running Isn’t Easy
- With the Right Motivation
- Great Moments
- Allergies, True or False?
- What Price Victory
- Winding Down a Bit
- The End