SpyBoy is an agent with S.H.I.R.T.S.
Alex Fleming is an average, ever-so-ordinary teenage boy trying to survive high school.
First, a brief explanation of the organization for which SpyBoy is an operative. That acronym stands for Secret Headquarters International Reconnaissance, Tactics, and Spies. It seems to exist largely to counter the villainous activity of its main rival, S.K.I.N.S, of the Supreme Killing Institute. SpyBoy will also have other opponents but S.K.I.N.S. is by far the main attraction.
Back on SpyBoy and Fleming, the two individuals could not be any more different since the latter is as shy and stumbling and inept around girls and stress as one might fear being while the former is an ultra-cool, super-self-assured operative who not only excels at handling danger and excitement, he craves it. The interesting thing about this dichotomy is that the two personalities reside in the same physical body; SpyBoy is Alex Fleming and knows it while Alex Fleming has no clue about SpyBoy. One blurb for the first adventure put it very nicely with "What if you were an international super spy? What if you had the latest technology at your fingertips? What if you had martial-arts training to hone your mind and body into the perfect living weapon? What if you didn't know it? But what if others did?"
The premise for the action in that first adventure is summed with: "High school student Alex Fleming isn't your typical teenager. Lately, in fact, his life has been typically terrible since a gang of drug-dealing bullies began targeting him for a rash of beatings and general humiliation. But everyone - even shy, young Alex - has a limit, and when Alex's limits are tested, some rather interesting abilities begin to surface. When did Alex perfect high-level martial arts moves? Where di he get all that hot, bizarre technology that's been saving his butt? And why on earth are so many people calling him 'SpyBoy'?! Alex is just beginning to get a grip on his life as a normal American teenager; what does he do now that he's also an international super spy with a mysterious past, a foxy sidekick named Bombshell, and a workload that would make James Bond cry like a baby?" [Okay, that last part was a bit harsh!]
Another very interesting and enjoyable statement ask the question "What IS it about SpyBoy that's so darn cool? The slick costume? The cutting-edge motorcycle? The stylin' goggles? Yes, yes, and yes! But that's not all! He's the only teen that could break into Fort Knox, yet fail his math test. He's "man" enough to take on a gang of thugs armed to teeth without breaking a sweat, yet shy enough that he'd trip over a raisin when he asks a girl to the prom. While SpyBoy is a dashing -- and deadly, if need be -- secret agent, Alex Fleming, his alter ego, has about as much street cred as your grandmother."
The Bombshell mentioned is a female agent who so definitely deserves her own set of tales as does another major female player who comes onto the scene after a bit, the incredible Japanese equivalent of SpyBoy called SpyGirl.
Good Lines:
- Said by a bad guy going up against SpyBoy, "We're drug dealers! We get to shoot people in the back! It's one of the perks!"