DCU Mapping: Flashpoint Worldmap

[dewline]

Go ahead and have a look.

http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/files/2011/05/flashpointmapv6.jpg

(And its parent blog entry: http://dcu.blog.dccomics.com/2011/05/20/flashpoint-friday-a-map-of-the-world-of-flashpoint/ )

Anything look particularly in/out of place?

Comments

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Well, Canada's not bad off. Tho the undead in Alaska is worrying. (Lead by Sara Palin?)

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Does seem like we keep avoiding all the Big Troubles hitting everywhere else, but we need to know more.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

Well, the resistance airbase is on the edge of Canada's north. Are we involved formally?

Also, how badly has trade been hit? It LOOKS like China and Japan are functioning....

[dewline.livejournal.com]

1. That airbase being in Kalaaliit Nunaat/Greenland. Not sure if Canada's formally involved to any extent.

Also I wonder how western Europe got flooded. Did the Amazons set off that volcano in the Canary Islands that Gwynne Dyer was worrying about (http://gwynnedyer.net/articles/Gwynne%20Dyer%20article_%20%20Gee-Gees%20%28revised%29.txt)?

That will be something covered in a couple of the Flashpoint-related mini-series, no doubt.

2. To varying degrees, yes.

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

I had assumed Aquaman had done it, possibly when he hit Paradise Island....

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Good point. I guess I need to read the relevant mini-series!

[shanejayell.livejournal.com]

That's just a guess on my part, of course. But SOMETHING happened to the Island, or they wouldn't have taken over the UK.

[tartysuz.livejournal.com]

It looks like North Africa doesn't exist anymore.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Libya, Tunisia, Algeria, Morocco, chunks of Mali and Mauritania, and I'm not sure right now about which of the DCU-specific nations of Africa might be located in the same neighbourhood.

As for continental Europe?

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Portugal, Spain, Andorra, France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Markovia(?)...and what looks like the southern halves of Sweden and Norway.

And getting back to Canada: what happened to our northern islands in the Territories? Atlantis, perhaps?

Looking in from a great distance

[mike norton (from livejournal.com)]

Ha! Aside from some a very quick capsule version someone mentioned I haven't paid any attention to Flashpoint. Certainly, this is the first time I'd gotten more of the global picture of it. Aside from the Amazon-Atlantean conflict all the points of interest related to me were connected to North American-based characters. I will note that I've only looked at the map, not any other accompanying/commenting text. Presumably much information's been coming out this weekend - both because of this past week's revelations and because this weekend is Heroes Con down in N.C. - but I've not gone looking for any of it.

Considering that Flashpoint (at least by my expectations) will largely be a dramatic gateway, probably being very different from the post-Flashpoint, New DCU... I have to wonder to what extant the mainstream comics fan should care about this Elseworlds-ish bit of almost-certain-to-implode-out-of-existence bit of geopolitics?

Mike N.

Re: Looking in from a great distance

[dewline.livejournal.com]

"Elseworlds-ish bit of almost-certain-to-implode-out-of-existence bit of geopolitics" though it certainly is, it's also still another excuse for some additional fun. This is part of the sorts of things I got into the hobby/artform/business for in the first place.

Re: Looking in from a great distance

[dewline.livejournal.com]

And a week or three later, I'm looking at this posting with a very different frame of mind. The kind of mindset that thinks of Charles Schulz' quotation:

"Comics will break your heart."

[jasonfranks.livejournal.com]

Africa is controlled by apes.

Japan is protected by 'tornados'.

Alaska has gone '30 Days of Night'.

Yeah, I think I'll be saving my money.

[jackolantern.livejournal.com]

Same here. Almost everything I've seen coming out of the Big Reboot signifies that, for the first time, we know how badly the opportunities presented by a big crossover event will be squandered well in advance.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Scary, now.