Some few of you may remember that DC had taken two shots at the pot of money once seen to be building in the role-playing games market, licensing out the rights to different companies in each instance. I did some work for the latter of the two, but the first one to try, Mayfair Games, had something that caught my eye.
Most importantly for our discussion, though: they established a neighbourhood called "Lafayette" that was settled mainly by Acadien expulsion victims. So, outside of Maine and Louisiana, Metropolis is apparently the biggest hotspot of Acadien-descended Americans in DC's "New Earth" version of the United States.
I don't think any of the comics writers have used that little detail for anything. If anyone were to do anything once they learned of it, though, my money would be on James Robinson.
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timeasmymeasure
A weird little "Acadiens in comics" sidebar
Date: 2008-12-17 05:32 pm (UTC)In their original map of Metropolis - before John Byrne started reworking the Superman mythologies in concert with Marv Wolfman and Andy Helfer in the latter half of the 1980's, including the creation of the Six Boroughs of Metropolis that we all now know - they cribbed somewhat off of the map of Montréal for the general lie of the land, minus the southern shoreline of the mainland. Some other mods as well, and if no one screams "death to fair use/fair dealing in copyright law!" over it, I'll post a scan later.
Most importantly for our discussion, though: they established a neighbourhood called "Lafayette" that was settled mainly by Acadien expulsion victims. So, outside of Maine and Louisiana, Metropolis is apparently the biggest hotspot of Acadien-descended Americans in DC's "New Earth" version of the United States.
I don't think any of the comics writers have used that little detail for anything. If anyone were to do anything once they learned of it, though, my money would be on James Robinson.