A rock like alien lands on Earth looking for sustenance. What does it eat? Intelligence! One touch of the rock and it sucks the smarts, if you have any, right out of you. Dr. Belinda Garland studies the alien rock to harness its power. However the evil Amazing Jacques and his co-hort, The Spiderwoman, plan to use the rock's brain sucking power to rule the world.

Everyone has an off day...but Malcolm didn't know how off his day would be when he calls in sick to work. Apart from causing himself physical damage as he tries to get through his day, he must also contend with the Bat Girl, a wild child raised in a cave, who has just escaped from a sanitarium. Throw in a deranged president of the United States, a sinister hypnotist, and a dose of media madness, and Malcolm finds out what sick time really means.