Superheroes must be the one of the most feared types of people for tech support staff.
They are magnets for having “computer issues” (as I have already covered previously here) and want everything sorted out right away. They are always complaining that the problem has to be fixed immediately, as it is a “matter of life or death”, or “the fate of the world depends on it”, or “a giant robot is about to crush my skull”.
Well boo fricken hoo! Seriously! Either they are too dumb or overpowered to use their computers in the first place, or they are super geniuses always tweaking settings and adding unauthorised custom software. (Yeah, I’m looking at you batman……)
Artists note :
This joke seems so obvious, yet when I researched it*, I was surprised to find this had not been done yet. The closest I could find was this comic, so I thought I had better give it some props.
If you find another version of this gag somewhere, especially with the iceman in it, please add a link in the comments. I would love to see it.
*Ok, I know what you are thinking – yes, I do research things on the google machine. I am all teknological and stuff.
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I always check google too, it just saves being flamed later 🙂
Wouldn’t that make his computer work better? I mean, at that temperature it would be running much more efficiently. Then again that’s assuming physics actually apply, and we’re talking about a man made of ice in a comic strip sooo….
True, it would seem this may help.
But as you point out, in a world where people can control the weather, read your mind & disintegrate you with their eyes, it is tough to know just how the physics of these things would actually play out.