Mahou Shonen Fight! Book One by JD Saxon and Dusty K Smith

"A super-colorful and gorgeous high school series, full of magic. Awesome!" -Gail Simone (Red Sonja, Batgirl)

After surviving a childhoos full of health food, crystal meditation, and as much new-age midnight forest dancing as his mother can drag him into, Mike dreams of having an ordinary life. Unfortunately for him, St. Didacus Academy for Upstanding International Achievers is not in the business of grooming 'average' young adults.

Nor does it bode well for Mike's future prospects when he wakes up one morning to find a sun-colored spirit stuck to him like a shadow who isn't interested in vacating the body which they now, apparently, have to share.

Despite his best efforts to avoid excitement, Mike finds himself reluctantly falling in with a group of similarly gifted (cursed?) fellow students posing as St. D's Environmental Awareness Club.

Beach cleanups are one thing, but liberating scar-faced kittens, battling evil cupcakes, and rocking hot pink cowboy boots definitely don't qualify as safe and boring extracurriculars.

For better or for worse, this magical mission to protect the Earth is Mike's new normal.

And that glitter is never coming out.