jeffh@brl-tgr.ARPA (Jeff Hanes ) (11/07/84)
>American Flagg 17 : > What I want to know is why have the "Canada" issues > had all those reversed letters? So far it doesn't seem to > have anything to do with anything. >Ted Nolan ...decvax!mcnc!ncsu!ncrcae!usceast!ted If you will recall, in AF #'s 4-6 (i think), the hijacked-zeppelin story, similar (though fancier) lettering was used to represent Russian speech. The idea is to LOOK like Russian while remaining legible to us poor ignorant slobs who don't speek the language. Evidently the letterer has gotten lazy about doing this in more detail (or maybe the old one got fired -- i don't pay much attention to who does these things). I personally prefer this approach to the standard Marvel approach (I forget DC's for the moment) of <speaking Russian> or <<spreching Deutsch>> or <<<speaking Chinese with an Italo-Brit- Zionist accent>>>. By the way, my recent discovery of this news.group has really made my week (not to mention drastically reducing my productivity). Thanks one and all. More to come, PJH