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 "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.

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