Talented Florida Comic Book Fan Gets Own Book on Store Shelf

Man, you know I'm a huge comic book fan, right? Well, a brand new comic book written here in Southwest Florida just made me a true believer! You see, every time I hit up my local comic shop, I'm snagging my faves off the shelf. But hey, sometimes you have to switch it up, see what else is out there. And let me tell you, I hit the jackpot this week at "Cool Comics and Games" in Cape Coral.

Right there, nestled between the big guys like Spider-Man and Batman, was something new, something fresh. It was "Mega Squad" issue number one. And let me tell you, the art right away caught my eye. Was this drawn by a kid? I flipped through it, and it was just what I needed. A book about heroes coming into their own and teaming up... The Mega Squad!

Just who is the Mega Squad? Meet Amphibi-Man, the Frog Human Superhero, then we have Comic Reliever, a comic book-loving superhero. (He might be my favorite. ) Next up was H2Bro. He's a super cool, water-based superhero, and finally, Danger Dan, the daredevil known for bravery. Mega Squad was the ultimate origin story, asking what if all these dudes teamed up? And you know what? They did, and it was epic.

So, I'm geeking out, right? I asked Tom, the shop owner, about this gem. Turns out, it's the brainchild of this local middle school kid named Owen Jacoby. This kid didn't just draw it; he wrote it, colored it, heck, he even started his own comic company, Owens Cool Comics Inc. Now that's dedication to your craft. So, of course, I had to buy a copy for myself.

And get this, Owen didn't just stop at making the comic. He went down to the shop and convinced Tom to stock it. Talk about being an entrepreneur! I gushed to Tom the shop owner about how cool it was that this young comic book fan was publishing his own book. This kid, Owen, is on his way to being the next big thing in comics. Who knows? We could have the next Todd McFarlane on our hands!

I won't spoil too much, but Mega Squad has it all. Heroes that learn to work together, as a team, villains ready to throw down – it's comic gold, my friend. So if you're a comic book fan like me, you have to swing by Cool Comics and Games and grab yourself a copy of "Mega Squad" from Owen's Cool Comics Inc. Support a local kid and his dream.

Owen, if you're out there, keep doing your thing, man. From one comic book fan to another, bravo! I can't wait to see what you come up with next. Excelsior!

We are lucky now. So lucky. We live in a time when the superhero movies we have are made with the technological know-how to actually be faithful to the material. It wasn't always like this. No, things used to be much worse for our greatest heroes. Here are 5 incredibly bad attempts to bring superheroes to the big screen.

Captain America. The comic book superhero that actually punched Hitler in the face. Most everyone recognizes Chris Evans as the famous American champion... but there used to be this guy. I wonder if he's enraged by today's superhero movie landscape.

There was a time when movie executives got a script and the first thing they said was "Get me Dolph Lundgren!" He was He-Man, a Universal Soldier and of course they chose him for the role of The Punisher in this terrible movie. It's not as bad as the Captain America movie, but there is a scene where The Punisher chooses to sit naked in a sewer to contemplate his revenge... and that seems to be very unsanitary, he could become ill from all the sewage and how then would he be able to do all his revenge? HOW?!

Dr. Strange is a really cool character. Sorcery, I mean that s**t is so cool. Now of course computers and special effects are able to allow this character to do all his sorcery stuff AND look cool doing it. In the 1970's all they had was cocaine and big dreams. This movie has enough bizarre outfits and mustaches to qualify as a 70's porno without the sex.

They must've had just enough cocaine leftover from the Dr. Strange movie to green light this embarrassment. Poor Captain America was pretty much reduced to a motorcycle driving stuntman. I mean even just saying the phrase "Then Captain America does a sweet jump on a mortorcycle!" sounds exactly like something someone in the grips of a coke binge would say.

I've never been a fan of Superman. I know he started it all. I understand he's incredibly powerful. But he's always just kind of irritated me as a superhero. People have always loved him though, and they were a little too eager to try and bring all his might to a big time movie in 1951. Everyone in this movie seems to talk exactly like 1930's style gangsters.