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#4 – The Mighty Avengers
Captain America! Thor! Iron Man! These are some of the mightiest super heroes the (Marvel) world has ever known. Oh yeah, there’s Ant Man too. My wife can’t take him seriously when I try to explain Henry Pym’s ability to shrink and talk to ants.
The Avengers, like many golden- and silver-age comics, has returned to print with a reworked time and a grittier story to regain readers in this Internet age. In July 2007 Mighty Avengers issue 4 (of the new series) featured none other than a grub bootscreen on a PC in a missile base with all the usual Ubuntu login possibilities on screen, including memtest.
Across the screen the dreaded words “Access denied” are visible. The horrified employees of the missile base are staring at the same grub screen, soiling their pants. “What is that?” says one.
“Someone’s hacked into the system. Someone’s looking for the launch codes. Oh my god!”
Do Lithuanian missile bases really run Ubuntu? Maybe or maybe not, but the main message to get out of this is don’t give sudo access to the wrong person! Why, they’ll hack into your computer even while it’s booting ... so, ok, accuracy it’s not, but pop-culture it is!
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Now, maybe you think comics are for kids. Or maybe like others you’ll take the view that comics actually are graphic novels, and stories expressed through sequential art – a view espoused by Scott McCloud who created the comic accompanying Google’s Chrome browser launch. McCloud’s “Understanding Comics” goes into this in more depth.
Nevertheless, you’ve got to admit it’s a pretty cool pop-culture reference even if the audience is possibly restricted to a subset of the population.
Coming up are references which I bet you'll know, no matter your age or inclinations!
David Bass
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