DC Comics, creators of superheroes like Batman and Superman, have goofed up memorably in a new annual issue of Superman/Wonder Woman. They apparently believe Pakistanis speak a new, unheard of and rather exotic language called ‘Pakistanian’.
In the second story of the annual, Clark Kent (Superman) and Diana (Wonder Woman) travel to Pakistan to retrieve stolen Amazonian weaponry from a thieving demigod named Dichara. So far so comic-y. But then things take a turn for the worse. The dialogue is obviously in English, but to create some sense of authenticity, the editors place dialogue spoken by non-English speakers in chevrons. They’ve done that here as well. Only according to them, this particular conversation has been translated from the ‘Pakistanian,’ a language we all know does not exist.
Needless to say, Twitter didn’t let this one go easy. Numerous tweets have been posted bashing DC for such a careless and ignorant blunder. And this comes in an age when the folks over at Marvel recently debuted the new Ms Marvel Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager, a property spearheaded by Sana Amanat, a woman with a similar background.
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