<div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt">Heck is in his flat stage, his no-curves-no-life-dead-on-the-page stage. All superheroes start out that way. Before the costume and the muscles, before the piping and the overlines, there is a stick man, flat on the page, lifeless. Heck feels like a stick man, so flat he wonders how he manages not to slip through the slats of the mall bench he's sitting on. He can't go back to school without his homework, he can't get his homework because the landlord changed the locks, and he's in big bad trouble that his drawings of superheroes aren't going to get him out of. There's only one way out of it: the Good Deed. This beautifully wrought coming-of-age novel will touch the hearts of both boys and girls.</p></div>