At the movies, summer has traditionally been a season for numbered sequels and for films about superheroes. Or both at once, preferably. Clearly, then, there was no better time for L.A. filmmaker Aaron “VFX Bro” Benitez to do a follow-up to his 2015 short Iron Cat. In that film, for the uninitiated, a house cat named Prince Michael is inspired to create his own Tony Stark-like flying suit after being taunted by some smart-aleck birds in serious need of an attitude adjustment. It’s a classic Marvel-style origin story, only no one is orphaned this time around, and there’s no gamma radiation to speak of. It’s just a cat reading up on flight and then, after some experimentation, building an airborne suit of armor (out of cardboard, duct tape, glue, baby shoes, and a couple of steam irons) in a suburban garage. Typical. In addition to being a delightful vignette about animals doing people stuff (or super-people stuff), Iron Cat is also a demonstration of Benitez’s special effects prowess.