[LNH] [META] Aliens on the Looniearth
Saxon Brenton
saxonbrenton at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 24 09:57:29 PDT 2009
On Monday 23 March 20009 Lalo replied:
>> It was the Qwertians who were the parodies of the Daxamites, not the
>> Dorfs. That said, off the top of my head I have no idea what the Dorfs
>> are like, so for all I know they're also parodies of Daxamites
[...]
> Double confusion here :-) Dorfs/Dvorakians... and I believe the
> Dvorakians _were_ intended as Daxamites, while the Qwertians,
> being extinct, would be Kryptonians. Their naming pattern would
> support that, too... but of course I may be wrong :-)
Tsk. Yes, typo on my part. I meant the Qwertians were Daxamite
analogues rather than the *Dvorakians* - not the Dorfs. But yes, your
analogy of living Dvorakians = living Daxamites while dead Qwertians
= dead Kryptonians has at least superficial plausibility. I have
never thought about it in that regard, simply because I've always
thought of Myk-El as a Mon-El reference rather than a Kal-El reference,
which may well be oversight on my part.
That said, there are multiple levels of cultural reference that can be
encoded in these groups. As a simple example, the Dorfs may originally
have been a reference to internet trolls, but they also had an Imperial
Guard, which to my mind adds in aspects of the the Shi'ar Imperial Guard.
So, looking beyond treating these groups as references to existing alien
cultures in comic books, and instead looking at the internet trends that
they were based on, it's also the case that Dvorakians are a reference
to the Dvorak keyboard, and the Dvorak/Qwerty war is a reference to the
rivalry between Dvorak and QWERTY keyboard layouts. (And, of course,
the existance of the Etaoin Shrdlu as a Precursor alien race refers to
the layout used by typesetters in pre-computerised printing.)
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Saxon Brenton
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