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The Amazing X Start with Book 1

Illustrated superhero novels for teens and adults

Pizza.
Powers.
Pandemonium!

Xander Pendergras has pizzas to deliver, bills to pay, and powers he can barely control. Saving Gate City is going to take some practice.

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Written & illustrated by Matt Sigmon

Xander in his superhero costume, happily eating a slice of pizza.

Superpowers.
Same appetite.

Welcome to Gate City

Meet your next unlikely heroes.

Two books. One very chaotic beginning.
Start with The Slice of Life, then keep going.

Start here The Amazing X: The Slice of Life book cover

The Amazing X / Book 01

The Slice of Life

Pizza delivery was complicated enough.

A strange accident gives Xander incredible powers, an insatiable appetite, and no idea how to be a superhero. With goblins, killer robots, and a gangster threatening Gate City, he’ll need help from some very unlikely friends.

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The Amazing X / Book 02

Only in America

Getting the hang of superhero life. Sort of.

A quiet Fourth of July at Cherry Beach sounds like the perfect break. Instead, bizarre assassins and one seriously angry dolphin turn Xander’s vacation into another disaster. Someone wants The Amazing X alive, and the hunt follows his friends home.

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A look inside

The action of a comic.
The story of a novel.

Full-length stories told through prose and original illustrations. Big battles, strange villains, and room to get to know the people caught in the middle.

Interior examples from Only in America, Book Two.

A page from Only in America with prose above a black-and-white illustration of Xander meeting a mysterious woman at the fireworks festival.
A page from Only in America with prose beside an illustration of Mouse and Russell facing goblins in a tunnel.

Meet the makeshift family

Saving Gate City
is a group project.

A pizza guy, a mad scientist, two bounty hunters, a filmmaker, and one very opinionated goat.

They don’t always agree, and they’re rarely prepared. But when things go sideways, they show up for each other.

The Amazing X ensemble lined up together: five very different friends and Russell the goat, with Xander smiling in the middle.

Behind the words. Behind the drawings.

Hi, I’m Matt.

Writer and illustrator of The Amazing X.

I’m Matt Sigmon. I write and illustrate The Amazing X, a series of superhero novels for teens and adults.

The characters are my favorite part of writing these books. I enjoy putting them through ridiculous situations, but the bond they share is what keeps me coming back.

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Every superhero has a first day.

Start with The Slice of Life

There went his funnel cakes

A page from Only in America with prose above a black-and-white illustration of Xander meeting a mysterious woman at the fireworks festival.
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The woman reached out and tapped him on the shoulder. She leaned down into his face and said, “We’ve been looking for you.”

That’s when Xander noticed something strange about the woman. Every time a firework burst overhead, her skin flashed the same color—red, then blue, then gold. A few explosions later, she wasn’t just reflecting the display... she was outshining it.

Xander sighed. There went his funnel cakes.

Not the subway gremlins

A page from Only in America with prose beside an illustration of Mouse and Russell facing goblins in a tunnel.
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First came the glowing eyes.

Then the rows of jagged teeth.

Razor claws followed.

Soon the tunnels filled with the low, sickening hiss of the newly formed goblins.

Mouse groaned, “Of course! The goblins! The only things nastier than you!”

Swarming towards them, their lips dripped with the vile poisonous venom so powerful it burned holes in the ground upon contact.

Russell backed up and screamed, “No way! Not these little subway gremlins!”