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[[caption-width-right:335:Crime pays.]]

''[[http://www.brendanmcginley.com/heist/heist-plus-ultra-1-homeland-insecurity/ Heist]]'', a webcomic by [[http://www.brendanmcginley.com/about/ Brendan McGinley]], is the story of the world's greatest (and thus [[PhantomThief least known]]) super-criminal. Geist (real name unknown) is a hedonistic yet professional PhantomThief whose only confidant is Jin, a sapient magic ring with the power to make him a living ghost: Invisible. Intangible. [[GameBreaker Unstoppable]].

And bored out of his mind.

[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Fortunately]], he’s hired for the most challenging crime ever: to break into the SpaceStation headquarters of the most powerful SuperTeam on his earth and steal an [[TheOmnipotent omnipotence]]-granting artifact known as The Halo. HilarityEnsues.

[=#=]1 "Homeland Insecurity" can be found in a more bandwidth-friendly format [[https://www.brendanmcginley.com/heist/heist-plus-ultra-1-homeland-insecurity/ here]].

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!!Tropes used:

%%* BigBrotherIsWatching: Patriot and Pax Americana were about to implement this in the first three pages of #1 with a device called the Omnoculus. Geist stole it of course.
%%* TheCape: Patriot looks the part ... right until he opens his mouth and reveals his [[{{Jerkass}} true colors]].
%%* ChekhovsGun: the hard light technology in #1.
%%* DaddysLittleVillain: Badoura to Lord Hish.
%%* DynamicEntry: and how!
%%* EvilOverlord: Lord Hish.
%%* EvilSorcerer: Kahin Al’Maghrebi
%%* {{Expy}}: quite a few. Hish in particular seems to be a close Doctor Doom cognate.
%%* HardLight
%%* HumanCannonball: used for a particularly sublime DynamicEntry. A HardLight projector in orbit around Mercury is involved.
* {{Intangibility}}: Geist is a case of simultaneous Intangibility and {{Invisibility}}. While he doesn't have to worry about falling through floors, there is a two-minute time limit and he can't phase individual body parts.
%%* {{Invisibility}}
%%* {{Jerkass}}: most of the characters including the protagonist despite his [[TheCasanova superficial]] [[TheCharmer playboy charm]].
* LaserHallway: his very first appearance in costume. Subverted in that he doesn't need the usual fancy gymnastics and just waltzes through intangible, invisible and untouchable.
* RingOfPower: the secret of Geist's success is a sentient magic ring that lets him go invisible ''and'' intangible.
%%* SmugSuper: Pax Americana are somewhere between this and BewareTheSuperman. While the rest of the team is closer to the former, Patriot is one bad day away from the latter.
%%* SpaceStation
%%* SuperTeam: Pax Americana
%%* VillainProtagonist
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