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Jul. 11th, 2006 01:16 pm
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[livejournal.com profile] ludickid, in an ongoing attempt to prove he is the geekiest one there is has produced an analysis of fictional DC towns, and a breakdown of the NHL, NFL, NFA, MLB and MLS teams in each of them.

Amusingly enough, this is the sort of stuff that I'd normally check up on in my copy of the DCU Atlas (God bless the people at Mayfair, they did good work). I think they actually had a breakdown of sports teams.

In further observation, Marvel had mostly real real estate, yah? The only fake I can remember is Latveria. And that country Sabra's from*.

*Oh, Snap!

Date: 2006-07-11 05:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] newnumber6.livejournal.com
Marvel mostly had a real USA, but they freely made up countries around the world... Latveria, Genosha, Madripoor, off the top of my head. I think current Cable & Deadpool comics have a subplot about a small baltic country Rumekistan

Date: 2006-07-11 06:53 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uhlrik.livejournal.com
Muir Isle's fictional too, if memory serves.

Date: 2006-07-11 09:18 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] creativedv8tion.livejournal.com

And Canada, that country that Alpha Flight is from.

Date: 2006-07-11 09:30 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uhlrik.livejournal.com
Well, duh. I thought that was self-evident.

Date: 2006-07-11 09:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uhlrik.livejournal.com
The existence of Canada is actually a viral ploy on the part of Alpha Flight's fanatical yet widely ignored (at best) or ridiculed (at worst) fanbase, intended to fool gullible and undereducated fankids (hey, when they're coming out of the US public school system, it ain't hard).

As anybody who's ever bothered to look at a real map can tell you, there's nothing north of the United States. Just a hole to the center of the earth that the aliens use to access Pellucidar.

Date: 2006-07-11 10:11 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uhlrik.livejournal.com
Let's not forget Agarttha, Symzonia, and Plutonia. I'm sure the territorial wars down there are loads of fun. Seriously, what's the point of being advanced and enlightened if you're not going to use to kick righteous butt?

Date: 2006-07-11 10:14 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] creativedv8tion.livejournal.com

Now I understand why the Savage Land is down at the South Pole.

Date: 2006-07-11 10:17 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] uhlrik.livejournal.com
Sweet, huh?

On the plus side, if you meet a real person claiming to be Canuckian... you know they're one of Them and must be disposed of for the good of humanity. That or they're deluded souls that bought into the conspiracy. Either way, better safe than sorry.

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Date: 2006-07-11 06:12 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thothmeister.livejournal.com
Sabra is Israeli. No town was given.

Date: 2006-07-12 08:00 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] troy-duffy.livejournal.com
Just so you know, I snorted in laughter at the joke. It wasn't so much the joke itself as the "*Oh snap!" that made me laugh, which I imagine was just a MUCH funnier way of saying "Just kidding people!" :)

Leave it to you to combine comics, geopolitics and controversial humor in one witty package :)

Date: 2006-07-11 10:31 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
You realize of course that my ego -- to say nothin' of my professional resumé -- cannot tolerate this claim under any circumstances? *evil grin*

Who's he kidding, claiming that Hub City can support any kind of top-level pro sports teams at all, for example?

*evil grin gets even wider*

Date: 2006-07-11 10:41 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
I just want to know in what alternate Earth St. Albans is a "city." Burlington is the only "city" in Vermont and IT barely qualifies.

Date: 2006-07-11 10:49 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] creativedv8tion.livejournal.com

People fly and have other superpowers, and you're having problems with them calling a small place a city?

Date: 2006-07-12 02:44 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
Yes, because it's factually inaccurate! Although it does need a superhero since it's a major heroin shipping point. Vermont: The Beckoning Country.

Date: 2006-07-16 10:05 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
I think they had a DCU hero in Vermont once...but he specialized in occult/magickal crimes.

Date: 2006-07-17 12:51 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
Yeah, he was probably a hippie or something. Vermont has a lot of hippies. Steve Bissette lives there too.

Date: 2006-07-17 03:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] thetathx1138.livejournal.com
No, the guy who was on the art team of "Swamp Thing"; he actually lives in my dad's hometown and he runs the local video store. Really awesome guy, actually.

Date: 2006-07-12 01:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] dewline.livejournal.com
There's a town in Saskatchewan called Melville that's taken up similar privileges of title with the acquiescence of the provincial government for at least a couple of decades now. I suspect that it's a common thing around the world by now.

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