Microsoft Launches IT Superhero Comic 285
willdavid writes "Paul McDougall reports in InformationWeek on Microsoft's new online comic. The Heroes Happen Here comic strips are being created by Jordan Gorfinkel, a former DC Comics editor who helped revitalize the Batman series. 'Tech workers who in the middle of the night fix a downed server or take on a computer virus don't really have extraordinary powers. It just seems that way. But a new comic book has debuted in which IT pros literally are superheroes. The daily Web comic, called Heroes Happen Here, features tech savvy crime fighters like Lord Firewall, who "stands between chaos and order" and says things like "begone vermin!"'" And because it's never easy, in order to read the archives of the comic you're going to need to install Microsoft's Silverlight.
Silverlight (Score:0, Informative)
I wonder the same thing (Score:5, Informative)
Re:I need a "super" hero (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Who is the target audience? (Score:4, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moonlight_(runtime) [wikipedia.org]
(Silverlight for unix-like env.)
Re:Just wondering (Score:1, Informative)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanted_(comic_book) [wikipedia.org]
Re:Just wondering (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Just wondering (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Who is the target audience? (Score:3, Informative)
So actually it is as dumb as it sounds then.
Plain, non-silverlight archives (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Cross-platform? (Re:Just wondering) (Score:3, Informative)
As a linux user, i just get a blank page (not even an error message).
A diff between the Windows and OSX licenses doesn't show any difference though (only the name of the product in the title differs).
Re:Who is the target audience? (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/Images/Week1_Day1_full.jpg [microsoft.com]
Re:Cross-platform? (Re:Just wondering) (Score:4, Informative)
/K
WAAAAAY too much time on our hands (Score:2, Informative)
Hands down the absolute worst abuse of a noble medium I have ever witnessed in my 39 years, and 2 min of my life that would have been better spent reading U.S. tax code from 1977.
It is so absolutely stereotypically / artificially 'geeked out' that it completely fails to generate any humor amid contrived situations riddled with tech jargon -- ha ha ha, tech people can understand the terms so they MUST find it funny, right? Yawn.
Ok, ok, sorry for the ramble, but it was literally SO bad I just had to say something.
Re:I wonder the same thing (Score:2, Informative)
Problem is (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Just wondering (Score:3, Informative)
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/Images/Week1_Day1_full.jpg [microsoft.com]
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/Images/Week1_Day2_full.jpg [microsoft.com]
http://www.microsoft.com/heroeshappenhere/comicviewer/Images/Week1_Day3_full.jpg [microsoft.com]
Re:Who is the target audience? (Score:3, Informative)