A Page from the Wonder Woman 5 Preview

[espanolbot]

In which Diana indulges in a custom of her adoptive people...
...Namely, eating a full English breakfast, huzzah!


And it totally is a full English, they have sausages and stuff in the following pages!

Aw, I want a Diana/Knight and Squite crossover. And, as I was pointing out a few days ago, this is another example of DC spreading its characters around a bit more than Marvel's, which are based mostly within New York State, if not NYC itself.

Comments

[darkknightjrk]

Man...I'm not sure if I like this art. I'd much rather have Chiang, but if we have to have a fill in, I think I'd rather just have the artist draw it in his or her style then see them try REALLY hard to imitate Chiang.

As for Marvel and spreading it's characters around--from what I'm seeing, it seems like they are getting better at that. Half the X-Men are in San Fran, Scarlet Spider is in Houston, Moon Knight is in LA...that's just off the top of my head, I'm sure someone who's reading more Marvel can mention a couple more.

[espanolbot]

I don't know, DC seem to have a better track record of this, and recently they seem to be making an effort to decentralise where all their superheroes are located (with them being in countries other than America), whereas recently Marvel seem to be moving all international heroes to the States to operate, eg Black Panther, if not erasing most of them entirely, eg. Captain Britain and Mi13.

[arbre_rieur]

The art here is pretty much Akins' normal style, isn't it?

[darkknightjrk]

From what I've seen, I don't think so--Akins has more of a realistic style, and Chiang's style is more cartoony. Maybe it was the inking/coloring that really tips the scales, though.

[arbre_rieur]

Aw, I want a Diana/Knight and Squite crossover. And, as I was pointing out a few days ago, this is another example of DC spreading its characters around a bit more than Marvel's, which are based mostly within New York State, if not NYC itself.

Stan Lee has said he did that on purpose so that he a) could have the characters run into each other more easily and b) wouldn't have to do as much research, as it was where he lived.

[mrstatham]

Fair enough, so Stan's got an excuse. Doesn't excuse the rest of Marvel's general laziness. It's a wonder New York gets trashed at all, frankly, there are still that many superheroes clogging the place up.

[shadowpsykie]

Diana looks so Posh! and i realized Mediterranean.

[stubbleupdate]

Cor' blimey guv'nor

[icon_uk]

Indeed, "Stroike a loit, it's Moiry Poppuns"

[eyz]

Knight and Squire....aww.. I wish they survived post-New 52....

[espanolbot]

Well Batman Inc. apparently remained untouched by the reboot (except for Steph allegedly being Spoiler now), so chances are they're still about as Batwing etc. are too.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

The hell happened to the art?

It's like when Ben Oliver took an issue off from Batwing all over again.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

And joy, another issue of 'what Americans think English people sound like'. >_>

[whitesycamore]

Haaaaaaate.

Just once I'd like to see superheroes visit England, and not England-Land.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

I'm with you there, it grates on my nerves so damn much.

[espanolbot]

Err... Honestly? As an English person who lives nearish to London? I know people who talk like that.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

The kind of things in the comments here is pretty much what I expect it to devolve into.

Not to mention, America is fairly determined that everyone lives in Victorian London and everyone speaks in exactly the same way.

[espanolbot]

Hm, reminds me of a conversation I had with my girlfriend's family when I was over in Ohio for Christmas, about how there was technically no such thing as a British accent. What with Britain consisting of several different country, and is the equivalent of referencing a North American accent.

One conversation that irritated me in regards to American people and English accents was over on the io9 forum, following a post on the American Being Human remake, where some guys started talking about how they should automatically remake all British tv shows for broadcast in the States, as American actors sound like Men and all British actors to them sound like "high pitched little boys". *Grr*

But yeah, there are people in London, and even nearish to London where I live, there are people who talk like that. Hell, I talk like that sometimes. It isn't someone writing a faux London accent (of which there are SEVERAL) a la Dick Van Dyke, it's pretty much a fair version of it. And she's only got those lines.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Heh, I had a similar exchange with an American friend, who upon having it pointed out that there was more than one English accent replied with "Oh yeah! There's like three right?"

They've remade Being Human too? ARGH American remakes are ridiculous, there's nothing wrong with the English version! But yes, that comment would get quite an eye-roll from me too.

To be honest, what is currently on the page wouldn't bother me at all were it not for all the other times where it *has* been exaggerated enough to bother me, so I just kind of get irritated by default. Not to mention, they don't write out the other characters accents phonetically, and it's often so overdone that even *I* can't understand what they're meant to be saying.

[espanolbot]

I would say that as it's written by an American writer, the way the non-English characters speak could be seen to be the default accent from the American perspective... BUT Paul Cornell did a similar thing with various English accents in his Knight and Squire comics (for example, the Somerset issue) and Grant Morrison's Batman and Robin had villains that spoke with phonetic Geordie and Cockney accents.

Maybe it's because my grandad is from up that way, but the idea of a Geordie supervillain really cracks me up. ^^

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Well I appreciate that, but since it's English-language these are the comics I read too, so it just sucks to be 'othered' or had the piss taken out of me. Or to repeatedly have the amazing realisation that America thinks anyway says 'top hole' anymore.

Geordie is a beautifully ridiculous accent, that would be kind of hilarious on a supervillian. XD

[espanolbot]

I don't really think that it's meanspirited at all, it's just to show what country they're in without people just assuming that they're in the US. Plus, from experience I've had in my numerous travels Stateside, other than those dicks on that io9 thread most American people seem to like accents from this way.

And, let's be honest, it's generally less offensive and more fun to have phonetic British accents than having, for example, a French person talk like Batroc ze Leapairrrrr or something.

[kurenai-tenka.livejournal.com]

Don't get me wrong, there are worse things (like you say), I meant more that it's annoying rather than offensive.

And yeah, you get a lot of American Anglophiles. :P Still, it would be nice for them to get the accent right and get over the things they like to think we still say. :P

Funnily enough, having now read the whole preview, I don't think it's a bad example at all of how to do it right, if it's necessary to do it at all. :)

[pyrrhocorax]

Lawks a mercy, Lor' love a duck!