
Irredeemable #19 by Mark Waid and Peter Krause, Boom! Studios 2010
Another example of technology that's being kept from the general public. Innovation economists would accuse Qubit here, who seems aware that this technology existed and still hasn't shared this information, of hindering economic growth.
Aliens get all the cool weaponized teleportation devices, while we here on Earth still have to make due with nothing but fancy toilets.