Polite Dissent

21 Responses to “ Picture Quiz: Psylocke ”

1. Charlene
   January 3rd, 2010 at 11:15 pm
   

   1) Three moons
   2) Dubai, Saudi Arabia? Is that like Winnipeg, Mexico?

2. LurkerWithout
   January 4th, 2010 at 12:00 am
   

   Someone made more than one issue of a comic dedicated to Psylocke and they weren’t Chris Claremont?

3. Chris
   January 4th, 2010 at 12:36 am
   

   Yeah, Dubai isn’t in Saudi Arabia.

4. lilacsigil
   January 4th, 2010 at 1:11 am
   

   Maybe this is an alternate Earth where there are three moons and Dubai is part of Saudi Arabia? Last I knew, Dubai wasn’t famous for its canals, either. Then again, maybe that’s really dark sand? Or incredibly expensive faux-water?

5. Charlene
   January 4th, 2010 at 1:36 am
   

   Although I would give very good money at this exact instance for Winnipeg to be in Mexico.

6. Nick F.
   January 4th, 2010 at 1:44 am
   

   Wow, I knew the middle east had money, but it looks like they bought Metropolis, and had it brought down.

   Honestly, I think this quiz would be easier if we listed what was RIGHT.

   I don’t see anything mispelled for example.

7. Wojtek
   January 4th, 2010 at 5:00 am
   

   The author has obviously never been to Dubai, Saudi Arabia — the building on the right actually has 3 more floors.

8. jokergirl
   January 4th, 2010 at 5:52 am
   

   You mean apart from the three suns, the water flowing through a desert city, and the geographic location?

9. Dwight Williams
   January 4th, 2010 at 6:36 am
   

   Dubai’s in the United Arab Emirates. Granted, there’s a legitimate chance of confusion as both nations are on the same peninsula.

   Dubai is a coastal city, so they got that much right. There should be a waterfront. Whether these particular buildings actually exist as part of it? I don’t know at the moment.

10. Dwight Williams
    January 4th, 2010 at 6:37 am
    

    I’m also wondering if this wasn’t planned as a side effect of all those Marvel 616-specific nations detailed in the Marvel Atlas a year or so ago…?

11. Will
    January 4th, 2010 at 8:18 am
    

    This is why making up names of cities in comic books is such a safer way to go.

12. Drafterman
    January 4th, 2010 at 10:01 am
    

    @Will

    How about:

    Dubaiville, Saudi Arabialand

    48 parsecs ago.

13. Will
    January 4th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
    

    @Drafterman Perfect, but I managed the Dubaiville run in under 46 parsecs. You need to cut through Madripoor.

14. Jeff R.
    January 4th, 2010 at 7:00 pm
    

    There’s at least four moons, I think…none of the three we see can be responsible for the reflection in the water.

15. Vardulon
    January 4th, 2010 at 7:23 pm
    

    How can the first panel of a comic be set ‘48 hours ago’? The first image by definition sets the temporal location of the story. Wouldn’t the next scene be ‘48 hours later’?

16. Andreas
    January 4th, 2010 at 8:06 pm
    

    Apart from the geographical error, there’s the fact that the Burj Khalifa (formerly Burj Dubai) is TOO SMALL.

17. Agent_Torpor
    January 5th, 2010 at 12:08 pm
    

    Clearly, Tolibao regards this fantasyland of Dubai-Arabia to be the new Tatooine.

18. Marionette
    January 6th, 2010 at 7:44 am
    

    It’s very badly drawn for a professional comic?

19. EL
    January 13th, 2010 at 8:59 pm
    

    Is it three moons or three suns (or two moons and one sun? Or. . .)?

    I’m not sure that I am remembering correctly and probably no one will answer this, but I vaguely remember from astronomy courses that a parsec is the DISTANCE that light travels in one second, not a time? Of course this is comicbookland.

20. Flint Paper
    January 14th, 2010 at 1:14 pm
    

    A parsec is indeed a measure of distance, although an unreasonably odd one — around 3.26 lightyears, a handy reference derived from two highly earthcentric units: the arc-second and the astronomical unit forming a right triangle with the parsec as the adjacent side. Not the sort of thing that would translate — really at all — to any extraterrestrial beings, even if they happen to use base 10. Not sure why it’s gotten the kind of traction it has in scifi, probably just because it sounds cool. Much like its related term, parallax.

21. Meanderthal
    January 21st, 2010 at 7:49 am
    

    A parsec is indeed a measure of distance, although an unreasonably odd one

    Not at all! The utility of the parsec is that it is geometrically derived; it’s a distance calculated from a distance, as opposed to a distance calculated from a speed and a span of time (like the light-year). As you say, it would be meaningless to an alien species, but it’s quite handy for us.

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