Don Q. Public

When Don Q. Manchego, a middle-aged janitor in Ohio, takes the hero identity of Don Q. Public, his circle of comic book geek friends (including Felonious Monk, Bad Feng Shui, and the ever-wise Herm-Aphrodite) are concerned about public embarrassment and the potential of physical harm coming to their friend. The situation is not improved by the constant presence of the charming but clueless enabler, Pancho Sanchez, who imagines he is Don's sidekick.

But it becomes more difficult to talk Don out of his adventures when they actually succeed, despite a complete lack of superpowers, or even advanced skills.

When Don meets and idealizes a truly unattainable woman (a terminal cancer patient), his heroic ideals are pushed to an even greater extreme, and his friends must concoct a scheme that appeals to his sense of heroism in order to keep him alive.