Zephyr Arland is a senior at North Florespark High with two speedster parents, a track-and-field metaphor he can't outrun, and a SPED advisor who knows more than he should.

Arcstream: False Start #1 launches the Rippaverse's YA superhero line - issue #1 of a 3-issue miniseries. Zephyr's a bored high school senior with ADHD-like attention struggles that aren't actually ADHD, two parents who speak Speed Speak at home, and a track team teaching him the meaning of a false start. False Start is the speedster origin story that frames a coming-of-age arc around the question of what it means to leap before the race begins.

From newcomer writer Andrew Rodriguez (Dallas, TX) with interior art by Brazilian veteran inker Silvio Spotty.