Polite Dissent

8 Responses to “ Picture Quiz (part 2 in an apparently contunuing series) ”

1. David Oakes
   April 22nd, 2005 at 11:46 pm
   

   Lois Lane doesn’t have D-cups?

2. Brian Cronin
   April 23rd, 2005 at 12:57 am
   

   Lois left out “do” in the sentence “Do you have a moment?”?

3. Jason Langlois
   April 23rd, 2005 at 1:36 am
   

   Major Sanchez has the wrong rank insignia on his shoulders.

4. Aine
   April 23rd, 2005 at 4:20 am
   

   David has a point. If the creepy guy was refering to Lois then the artist needs a(nother?) brush up course on the female body. That aint no D-cup she be wearing. But then, said artist also had her wearing a tight black tank top in teh desert so any outbreaks of logic will quickly become obsolete when Lois collapses from heatstroke and one nasty sunburn.

5. David Oakes
   April 23rd, 2005 at 10:49 am
   

   On a more serious note (though come on, a woman without D-cups in a superhero comic book? There is definitely something wrong!), both Sanchez and the General appear to have no insignia whatsoever.

   On the other hand, any “General” worried about “*** witchfinders” may have only an honorary title. Or be involved in a black bag operation where insignia would be removed for “plausible deniability”. I don’t remember the specifics of the Superman issue, but I think a similar argument could be made for Sanchez. Or maybe a “No insignia in a war zone, so enemy snipers don’t know who to target”.

   (Not that I don’t think for a moment that this is anything more than a lazy artist with little direction from the writer, SNAFU.)

   (Acronym used to keep this blog family-friendly.)

6. Scott
   April 23rd, 2005 at 12:14 pm
   Official Comment

   Both the Major and General are wearing rank insignia, just the wrong ones. The Major is wearing a the single gold bar of a Second Lieutenant instead of the gold oak leaf clusters he should be wearing. TheGgeneral seems to be wearing the eagle of a full Colonel instead of the star (or stars) he should be wearing.

   In war zones, officers wear “subdued” rank insgnia instead of the normal bright metallic ones just for the reasons you mentioned, David. Silver insignia become flat black and gold insignia flat brown.

7. N
   April 24th, 2005 at 12:15 am
   

   It may be too much to ask of comic writers hastening to their next deadline to getmedical info right beyond avoiding truly gross errors, but this is a bit much. it’s pretty easy to look up almmost anywhere the correct insignia for a military officer.

8. David Oakes
   April 25th, 2005 at 2:51 pm
   

   “Both the Major and General are wearing rank insignia, just the wrong ones.”

   I can accept this interpretation because in the end I agree that it was an artist mistake, most likely due to artist laziness.

   But looking at the picture of the Major, the colorist has made his “bar” the same color as his shirt. So it is no more than a fabric tab, not insignia. Similarly, the General *could* have an eagle on his shoulder, but it looks a heck (family friendly) of a lot more like a triangle, a little metal tab at the end of the cloth insignia holder to help with fraying. (Math, yes. Biology almost always. Insignia, sometimes. Haute Coture, not my bag.)

   So really, it is just bad art all the way around.

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