Summary

In Episode 1, the narrator introduces Stuntboy. His superhero identity is a secret. Stuntboy’s real name is Portico Reeves. He lives in a castle, which is really an apartment building called Skylight Gardens. Portico “feels lucky” to live here, because it is “like living in a television” (6). Skylight Gardens is filled with different characters, like Mr. Mister who spends his days “tying and retying . . . his shoes” (7). Then there is Portico’s grandmother, Gran Gran, and his cat, A New Name Every Day.

The only thing that is not good about Portico’s life is his “terrible case of…the frets” (9). The frets are what “Portico’s grandma calls . . . ‘anxiety’” (9). When Portico has the frets, he feels “nervous in the brain” and “in the body” (10).

The only person who can help Portico when he has the frets is his best friend, Zola Brawner. She and...