Now, talk about understanding your geek audience! Outside of Japan, manga just about the exclusive domain of geeks – they collect them, read them, trade them with their LAN-party buddies. Along with anime, probably no other art form is as guaranteed to be noticed by the computer tech market.

How soon can we expect this to form its own trend? We’d love to see:

Bayes, the Last Spambender – The last of a noble line of sysadmins battles the Spam Lord and the plague of spam that threatens to blacken the world.

Hacknote – The one-on-one globe-shattering battle between good and evil as the world’s greatest white-hat and the world’s most powerful black-hat square off, each trying to steal the other’s identity.

Fullmetal Software-Analyst – Two brothers roam the world looking for the Philosopher’s ISO Whitepaper, all the while trying to recover their mother who was last seen disappearing into a closet full of Ethernet cables.

Code Bogus – An alternate history where Britain kept the inventions of computers and the web at CERN to itself, so the United States had to rely on it for technology, but then France trumped Britain with Mandriva Linux so British nobility have to move to America after all, where they build a giant robot whose code nobody, but nobody, can debug.

Oh, they’re coming to get me. I’d better hide.

Peter Brittain
Digital Advertising Agency