Death in High Places (3/??)

"This isn't about Succession," I said.

Nomos snorted. "Like you would know. Now, the rest of you, bugger off! Succession is none of our business. As for you," he said, turning back to me, "Tell me why I shouldn't haul you down for interfering with the most sacrosanct parts of the Law?"

I probably shouldn't have goaded him with that crack about the Rule of Law. But what the hell. We never got on anyway, and now he had to put on a show for the crowd. I shrugged. "Because that might tamper with Succession."

Okay, so I was bluffing.

Whatever happened to heroes?

Okay, so this isn't directly related to webcomics, but I figure it's fair game. It's still comics, after all.

I work at Barnes and Noble (which is a lot less cool than I would have thought it'd be even a couple years ago) and on breaks, I tend to grab something to read. I've been going through the Graphic Novels section, because they're fairly quick to read, and because I'm a fanboy and get to read them to see if they're any good first that way. I've gone through the usual suspects I don't already have, Hellblazer, Fables, various Batman, Superman, and other superheroes, plus whatever looks interesting. And since I've been on a bit of a hero kick lately, and it was there, I read the Space Ghost TPB. Which made itself a good example of several things I'd been trying to write about anyway. This is going to contain many spoilers.

( Spoilers ahoy )

(Crossposted to snarkoleptics)

A random thought

I can't help but wonder if, all else aside, the reason computers were invented and took off in the "West" first is the Latin and Cyrillic alphabets are a lot easier to have a computer display than Arabic or Chinese or Japanese or similar languages.