Homeland Security Doesn't Understand Comics

The irony of this is delicious.

Worse, news of it spread like wildfire because you really shouldn't let ignorant morons mess with someone working in a field loved by geeks.

Mark Sable was detained by airport security because he had a script for one of his latest comic book projects, Unthinkable, had information that paralleled the 9/11 attacks. The mini-series follows a group in a government thinktank that comes up with 9/11-type scenarios that are now coming true; the story is based on the real-life proposal from the government asking writers to come up with scenarios for terrorist plots, and in the comic Mark took it to the next step and asked what would happen if these scenarios came true and then the people coming up with the scenarios would become suspects.

Mark Sable is known for his work with DC and Image Comics, as well as Unthinkable under the Boom! umbrella.

He said in the story that the TSA agents had trouble understanding that they were looking at a script for the next issue of a comic book because apparently these macadamia nuts didn't know that comics weren't all about superheros.

That'll teach him. Next time you're going to delve into an issue that requires some form of cerebral interaction, make sure you throw Superman into the mix or some idiots will think you're planning to blow up a plane. A big thank-you to these goofs that are keeping us safe from having convenient travel plans!