The Nerdiest Thing Ever Created by God or Man
Please try to wrap your head around this: Microsoft has created a superhero cartoon about IT professionals.
Holy. Shit.
The only way that sentence could get any nerdier is if “Star Trek” could be involved somewhere. Shudder! Anyways, the strip is called Heroes Happen Here, it’s done by former DC Comics editor Jordan Gorfinkel, and it’s going to pimp Microsoft’s 2008 versions of SQL Server, Windows Server and Visual Server, supposedly. You can read it here (you have to download some Windows program to see the archives; so sorry, Mac users). Now I’m going to take a break to watch some football or something.
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.