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Date Posted: 2/11/02 15:42:24 GMT+10
Author: Axaday
Subject: Re: comic ban by hasbro
In reply to: Goktimus Prime 's message, "Re: comic ban by hasbro" on 31/10/02 16:44:30 GMT+10

>This attitude sure doesn't help alleviate the insular
>stereotype of America being "the land that looks
>inward" -- which really, is at the heart of all
>negative perceptions of Americans.

As you know, it wasn't us this time. They are Canadian.

>...the bizarre thing is that Dreamwave is a freakin'
>Canadian company too. But it's plainly obvious that
>they're marketing their product solely at Americans.
>You can tell by the way they produce their comic
>(measuring distances in miles? What the--??) and to
>the unfortunate detriment of fans outside the North
>American continent, their failure to license their
>product for export.

Even when they were shipping their comics over all the oceans, I seriously doubt that they had as many metric readers as American readers. Do the Harry Potter books published in England have metric measures in them or do they go in and switch it up at Scholastic?

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