Something weird;
Acquired a couple of old clearance price comics yesterday. The more recent of these has X-Men traveling back in time to ancient Egypt where they meet Nur Eh Sabah, Apocalypse, as a boy, which is a pretty X-Men sort of story.
Except that before language gets hand waived by a magical plot widget, the Egyptians’ speech bubbles get whatever exotic font Marvel had lying around... which isn’t hieroglyphics or hieratic but FUTHARK. Uh. Um.
@Leucrotta (clarification: I bet they would have sooner licensed windings that bother to figure out what they should actually use. I'm not saying hieroglyphics == windings)
@Leucrotta "it's like angular and shit so it's ancient, right"
I could vaguely understand it if it were ancient Romans or Greeks we were talking about here, but... Egyptians.
@Leucrotta couldn't afford the windings license