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I have been reading Wiley Miller's "Non-Sequiter" for a while now, and I imagine that I'm not the only libertarian out there that wonders whether Mr. Miller's keeping his true libertarian leanings under wraps.

But my love of the strips has jumped to a new level with the Ordinary Basil story arc he's been releasing lately. In it, a Professor in a zeppelin takes a young boy, Basil, poor, ordinay Basil on an amazing adventure, revealing to him last week that there's a city floating in the sky, called Helios. An entire city of advanced people who, as this arc is set in Victorian times, built a floating city that no one on the ground knows about.

When Basil asks how this group of people could have achieved so much more, the professor asks "Have you ever noticed how eras are divided into years of warfare, when a war begins and ends, and which nation became the possession of the victor..." continuing "...the history of Helios is the history of mankind's accomplishments, not its self-destruction".

To a libertarian and a Randian, and as a fan of the old Tom Swift books, I find this story vaguely intoxicating and wonderful.

I know that on the internet, Wiley Miller is considered kind of controversial, especially regarding his comments about PVPOnline and Penny Arcade, but I'm going to look past those and focus on these works of his.