Alex knows his mother Val used to play Agent Frazer on the cult favorite TV show Anomaly, but the show ended when he was three. Now he is nine, and he and his mother set off on a cross-country road trip from New York to Los Angeles, stopping at comic conventions along the way. For the first time Alex sees the legions of his mother's fans and experiences the floating, impermanent worlds that get built for a weekend in hotels and convention halls from Cleveland to Chicago. He meets and befriends comics writers and artists, but this trip has another purpose and his mother is keeping it a secret. This book is an enjoyable and industry-savvy look into the comics world, a road trip novel, and an emotional mother and son story. As literary as it is nerdy.