Enter Cheetah Boy

The world's newest superhero is born.

And he's packing an impressive array of powers:

• fastest land animal (50% as fast as Superman)
• turns things invisible with lightning bolts that shoot from his hands
• shoots fire from his hands
• raises defensive shields against others' attacks
• fires lasers from his eyes (effect unknown)

I took Baxter to Free Comic Book day a few Saturdays ago, and the rest, as they say, is history. He swallowed the Justice League whole and used it as a launching pad for his science-fueled imagination. He even asked a friend of ours, a Biology professor, to settle our dispute about whether Superman counts as a mammal or not.

We're rolling with the whole thing pretty well. The only limit we've put on it so far is that there's to be no destructive shooting in the house. He can make all the noise and go through all the motions, but he can't pretend to be killing us. He seems okay with that. Lyle even uses his own "superpowers" to banish the shadows that lurk under the doors and couches.

We've even adopted our own Super alter egos: Jordan is Inhaler Girl and I'm Sleepatron.