Jack Blank

Plucked from a crate labeled "Jack," an infant Jack Blank began his life as a lowly orphan. Preferring fantasy to grim reality, he whittles away the ensuing twelve years at St. Barnaby's Home for the Hopeless, Abandoned, Forgotten, and Lost, eagerly exploring comic books. Meanwhile, his real life is dull and boring. His name just about explains it all--blank. Following an attack by a robot, Jack suddenly faces the Imagine Nation, a fantastical land filled with superheroes. As it turns out, he carries a deadly robot virus, causing him to make many enemies along the way. The series chronicles Jack's struggles as he tries to discover his origins and master his new found powers.

A trilogy made by Matt Myklusch, who used to work for MTVu, the twenty-four seven running show of MTV for college students. Though it may seem cliched at a first glance, it manages to have good humor and surprisingly well constructed plot twists.

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 * Aliens Speaking English: On Earth at least.
 * Artificial Limbs: Standard for all androids and Peacekeepers
 * Bavarian Fire Drill:  to the head of the orphanage.
 * Charles Atlas Superpower: Though More Dakka and Jetpacks
 * Chekhov's Gun: Quite a few.
 * Jack's
 * Chekhov MIA:
 * Curb Stomp Battle: The Rustov against just about every civilization in existence as demonstrated by the sterilization of Mars and the destruction of the Valorians.
 * Death by Origin Story:
 * Legend died to stop the Rustov and Revile
 * Skerren's parents by the infection
 * Department of Redundancy Department: Jazen claims to work for The Department of Departmental Affairs the beginning. Bonus points for saying it was part of a Division of Divisional Affairs
 * Implied with Jack's parents.
 * Skerren's parents were infected by the Rustov in front of him
 * Evil Eye/Eye Scream: You get this when infected by the Rustov virus.
 * Floating Island: Imagine Nation.
 * Future Me Scares Me: Jack with a major villian
 * Last of Their Kind: the Valorians who were the galactic police until a surprise attack by the Rustov wiped out all but the battalion responding to the Rustov decoy signal.
 * Meaningful Name: Jack's last name, which actually came from his school papers. Whenever we wrote his name, it would only have Jack after it.
 * Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: With aliens zombie robots! How about that?
 * One of Us: Both Jack and the author are this, both being lovers of comic books.
 * The Spock: Taken Up to Eleven with Jonas Smart who is heartless  and is about as calculating as Stendeval is caring.
 * Robot Buddy:  is this in the first book.
 * Stock Super Powers: On a Floating Island where everyone is a super person of one kind or another this is guaranteed.
 * All Your Powers Combined: Stendeval who can do anything he can imagine until he runs out of Hit Points. Also doubles as Swiss Army Superpower.
 * Dishing Out Dirt: Along the lines of the Thing from Fantastic Four. He is seen talking to a Shock and Awe woman on the landing pad.
 * Flight: Apparently very common.
 * Flying Firepower: Played straight and zig-zagged through use of More Dakka and Jetpacks
 * Ki Attacks: Most anyone from Kartekka.
 * Light'Em Up: Laser Girl and a boy throwing Hard Light frisbees.
 * Lovecraftian Superpower: Regeneration is this for Revile
 * Make Me Wanna Shout: Part of the Peacekeepers Alpha Squad.
 * Mind Over Matter: Also very common.
 * Pure Energy: For both the good guys and the Revile. Implied this happens quite often to Mechas.
 * Shapeshifting: Alegra can become diamond hard or a puddle as well as being Elastigirl
 * Shock and Awe: a women at the landing pad
 * Super Intelligence: Jonas Smart full stop.
 * Super Reflexes/Implausible Fencing Skills
 * Super Speed: Speedrazor who has razors for arms
 * Super Strength: Exhibited at the landing pad.
 * Super Toughness/Nigh Invulnerability: Played straight, zig-zagged, and subverted oh so much at the end.
 * Technopath: The Hero
 * Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: the Rustov and the Valorians
 * X Meets Y: Harry Potter meets Percy Jackson and The Olympians. Kind of.
 * Sufficiently Advanced Aliens: the Rustov and the Valorians
 * X Meets Y: Harry Potter meets Percy Jackson and The Olympians. Kind of.