Dr. Megavolt is the world's coolest physicist. Surrounded by home made tesla coils and dressed in a silvery space suit, Dr. Megavolt shoots purple arcs of lightning from his hands.
Dr. MegaVolt's alter ego is Dr. Austin Richards; like all mild-mannered scientists, he has an excellent story to explain the origins of his fantastic super powers:
In 1996 members of Survival Research Laboratory built a cage to protect a person from Tesla coil currents, and I got inside the cage as a stunt at a party at Christian Ristow's warehouse space. The result was as expected: I felt no sensation of electricity while in the cage. All the current flows on the outside of a conductor, isolating the interior from potentially dangerous electric fields. Eight months later I decided to shrink the cage down around my body and create a metal suit that would allow mobility.
Unlike most superheroes, though, you can hire Dr. MegaVolt for parties.
Dr. MegaVolt [Official Site] (via Neatorama)
