Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask

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Ryan, a shy, caffeine-addicted university student, can turn into a fly. Cassandra, a waitress at a greasy spoon he has a crush on, can make things disappear. They were made for each other—and to battle the forces of evil! As the Superheroes for Social Justice, Flyboy and Ms. Place take on the villains that inhabit their world: cigarette barons, redneck tabloids, and the patriarchy.

Acclaim for Flyboy Action Figure Comes With Gasmask

“Jim Munroe has written the first novel to harness the energy, idealism, and cartoon-inspired playfulness of the new wave of culture jammers. It’s about time we have some superheroes to save us after the post-irony meltdown — forces of corporate darkness, beware.” — Naomi Klein, author of No Logo

“It’s an excellent book — a funny, cool riff on superpowers and twentysomethingness.” — Neil Gaiman, author of The Sandman

“Voluble, inventive, goofily romantic, goofily comic. . .” — The Globe and Mail

“Witty without being acid, sensitive without being goopy, this is a Gen-X novel to treasure.” — Booklist

“A debut notable for the spectacular insouciance of its dialogue and an unstoppable, fearless, herky-jerky flow of inventive humour. Munroe masterfully carries off his admittedly weird conceits, suspends our disbelief, and gives us nothing but delight in his imagination.” — Kirkus

Books In Canada First Novel Award Nominee

“Finally, a novel about post-boomers that is actually generational, not generalized. Flyboy is specked with bright particulars—the fragile, earnest creatures Munroe magnifies are made from the same twinkly light they refract.” — R.M. Vaughan

Now Magazine‘s Top 20 Toronto Books

“Jim Munroe has created a genuinely hip, young and urban tale. Forget about all the other fiction that poses as slick and cool, forget the stylish authors that promise to be a voice for the next generation and then fail to deliver anything new. Flyboy is the real thing.” — Quill & Quire