Rueben Medina is a man who wants to microwave a spider and then force it to bite him to see if he gains super powers. He’s a man that stares intently at a soda can for five minutes straight in an attempt to move it with his mind. Sadly, staring intently at anything for five minutes will give you a headache and microwaving a spider will only end in an eight-legged mess so Rueben made a decision: he would spend the rest of his life crafting the perfect secret identity of an unassuming nerd. One day something as serendipitous as gamma radiation exposure or a magical meteorite would grant him powers, right? In order to assume this identity he began consuming vast quantities of all things geeky. Eventually he became fat on a veritable smorgasbord of nerd nutrients comprised of everything from comics to anime, but video games were the Cheddar Bay Biscuits that he kept going back for.

To this day he maintains his mild-mannered secret identity as an English major (what could be more worthless modest) between jobs and a part time actor/improviser. This is of course all secondary to his rigorous super hero training regimen, comprised mostly out of creating “What If?” scenarios with action figures and clocking in copious amounts of time in Batman: Arkham Asylum. Until the day he gains superpowers Rueben will be the bad ending of a Choose Your Own Adventure book. But maybe, just maybe, one day you’ll get saved by a friendly neighborhood spandex-wearing hero and you’ll know that he finally made it… or completely lost his mind.