Each day you come into work, you may feel like an ordinary person, but to those you support, you’re a real-life hero. It can get tiring fighting the good fight against threat actors lurking in the dark web and dodging corrupted files. Thankfully your users have you to call when systems go awry.

While being an IT hero is serious business, we’ve recently had a great time collaborating with Actual Tech Media, to create a comic book for you because sometimes IT infrastructure can just be fun.

Our comic book, * The EdgeSlayer Chronicles *, takes readers on a fun adventure to the edge of disaster.

Confusion reigns as our characters from Downey Coffee struggle to remain competitive.
Someone’s been replacing their new infrastructure with a cabled mess. To protect their business, an epic battle ensues between Hyperman and CopyCat.

Will evil win? Is it curtains for our heroes and Downey Coffee?

Follow our heroes to the edge of disaster and discover how they survive in our epic inaugural comic .

But, that’s not all! We’re calling all SpiceHeads to summon their inner superhero and join in on all the fun, by entering our sweepstakes!

What could you win?

In celebration of the release of our epic inaugural comic we’ll be selecting THREE Winners at random to win a TCL 32” HD TV LED Smart Roku TV ($159.99 Value) AND an Annual Disney Plus Subscription ($109.99 Value) (or Amazon Gift card of the same value) so you can stream all your favorite superhero movies!

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8 Additional participants will win their choice of Funko Pop! character up to a $25 value. Here are some of the more popular Heros and Villains characters to choose from!

You can enter to win by following the instructions below:

:eight_pointed_black_star: Replying to this thread with your response to this question:

If you were a comic book character in your role as an IT pro, what would your superhero name and catchphrase be?

Examples:

I’m ‘The Edgeslayer’ - “I’m everywhere all at once and faster than lighting!”
My name’s ‘The Eternal’ - “Never allows downtime on my watch!”
‘They call me the ‘Gatekeeper’ - “Nobody’s getting around putting in a ticket in these parts!”

:eight_pointed_black_star::eight_pointed_black_star: Earn a bonus entry by checking out our Edgeslayer Chronicles comic and editing your reply to share which panel (one of the boxes on the page of a comic book.) was your favorite part from the comic!

US SpiceHeads Only - Terms and Conditions - Ends MARCH 3RD, 11:59 PM CDT

UPDATE! We are extending the contest to March 3rd!

Here are our winners!

Grand Prize winners:

  1. @tb33t

  2. @impact

  3. @jerrytucker

Runner Up Winners:

  1. @dalestokes

  2. @spiceuser-5snr9

  3. @tcollinsoff

  4. @troberts2

  5. @bbeckers

  6. @nealp

  7. @sqlrage

  8. @shivarr

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@Scale_Computing

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The Protector “I protect all that is good from forces of idiocracy, I mean evil!”

I thought the panel on page 6 where CopyCat poured the coffee into the plant was the best.

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If you were a comic book character in your role as an IT pro, what would your superhero name and catchphrase be?

Lightning Boy - So fast at solving the problem you’ll barely see a flash!

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E-Wastor - “If it’s obsolete, I’m going to yeet!”

I really thought it was hilarious on page 4 how the backward ball took that nice new system and just reversed it to what most SMB server rooms look like. LOL

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Captain No Clicky “No clicky on the links. No.”

I liked on page 5 how he rode the cape instead of flying like most other supes.

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Deathbybandaid, more of a vigilante anti-hero, works in the night to SOLVE problems the correct way. No bandaid solutions

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Slashdailyman - “Reduces cost and complexity while improving performance and security”

Also been my EA game name for the last decade. Dailyman is an anagram of my wife and daughters names.

Page 9 “That Woman is getting on my nerves”

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Liked page with all the cats

The Interpreter “I make IT jargon seem like English to you simple people.”

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Captain Calm - bringing a sense of order when everyone is losing their sh*+

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The Western Edge calls me Lancaster Forte. The Eastern Edge refers to me Forte Finder. Bringer of peace. Gatekeeper to the unknown.

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If you were a comic book character in your role as an IT pro, what would your superhero name and catchphrase be?

Name: The Resetter

Catchphrase: Forgot your password? Lock your account? Have no fear, The Resetter is here!

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Name:
The Resistor

Catchphrases:
Prepare to be shocked!
You have been power-cycled!
It’s lights-out for you!
You are in for a world of hertz!
You shouldn’t abuse your power!
This one was free of charge!
To the volts-wagon!

I thought copy cat was a cool villian.

I also like the attention to detail, like the “c” on the ground in all of the frames. and the super messy office of Mega Coffee.

If you were a comic book character in your role as an IT pro, what would your superhero name and catchphrase be?

Name: Simple Simon

Catchphrase: Have you tried turning it off and on again?

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I’m ‘Mr. Script’ - “Don’t worry, I have a script for that”

The Data Redeemer - “Make bad data good again.”

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They call me the ‘Restarter’ - “Did you turn if off and back on ?!”

Comic Character: Dilbert

Catchphrase: Have you tried rebooting yourself?

Always a sigh of relief here…

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I’m the watchdog ‘always keeping eyes and years open’

This really resonated

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I am ‘The Fixer’ - not sure what the issue was, but it is working now.

2 Spice ups

Captain Sarcasm with catch phrase “Right, you didn’t do anything to it. I believe you!”

Edit: My favorite panel has to be this one. Bad attitude all the way!

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