Continued, unnoticed

Superman is passé. Spiderman is clingy (pun intended). And Batman was never really that popular anyway. We need a new age, tech-savvy, white-collared superhero!

Ladies and Gentlemen, introducing the 21st century superhero, Excelman.
Surprisingly, and totally unpredictably, he also has a female counterpart, Excelwoman, who claims that she is The 'woman of substance' as opposed to bimbos such as Batwoman, Catwoman and the like.

While the birth of other superheroes can be attributed to rising crime and a general lack of goodness in society, the birth of Excelman and Excelwoman can approximately and appropriately be blamed on Microsoft and MS Excel, and a general lack of goodness in the corporate world. Also, a general lack of ideas about what can be done with the data collected about any random process in any random industry. Such were the dark times, when companies decided to employ these superheroes who do nothing but stare at rows and rows of data-filled spreadsheets all day, and generate complicated, yet colourful, tables and charts of no consequence. Said tables and charts are then titled 'XYZ analysis for productivity improvement', or other such important sounding names. Said tables and charts are then presented by the Superbosses at supermeetings to Super-superbosses. While the Superbosses take credit for the impressive work, the Superhero, like all other superheroes, remains faceless and nameless, and continues to work... unnoticed.


PS: Continued Unnoticed is Pointy's blog, which has interesting works of (dreamy) fiction interspersed with his trademark PJs :)