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

[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. :)