As if memorizing state capitols isn’t difficult enough, imagine trying to learn history in the DC Universe. From an article on the Daily Planet, i.e. DC’s 52 promo site:
“In May, we were completing a unit on World War II and how the Spear of Destiny kept most of the superhero community from acting directly against the Axis powers on foreign soil,” recalls Heather Nicholas, a social-studies teacher at Ted Knight Junior High in Opal City’s “Old Town” neighborhood, “and as I explained that the heroes of the Justice Society devoted most of their activities to fighting saboteurs in Gotham City, one of my students asked if Superman was a member of the JSA in the 1940s. I had one answer, our textbook had another, and once the kids realized that there was no single right answer, well, we didn’t get a lot of teaching done that day.”
Heh … the name of the textbook company is “DC Challenge.” No wonder the books are confusing …
(link via Laura)
August 10th, 2006 at 11:01 am
I would love to be a Professor of Retroactive History in the DC Universe. You could always be right in almost every argument.
August 10th, 2006 at 11:10 am
Would Retroactive History be a discipline in the History or Physics department? Or is it inter-disciplinary? Would there be colleges with entire DEPARTMENTS dedicated to it?
And when a Professor of Retroactive History describes something as “an event that Changed History”, well he wouldn’t be fooling around.
I’ll bet that the academic conferences for the discipline are fun to attend too. I wonder how many arguments they get into over whether something was really retroactive or not…
(Of course, I’ll bet ALL academic conferences in the DCU are a bit more interesting than their counterparts here. I wonder if any super-villains ever attack during a presentation on “New methods for Artificial Intelligence” instead of just buying the conference proceedings…)
August 11th, 2006 at 12:04 pm
“I’ll bet that the academic conferences for the discipline are fun to attend too. I wonder how many arguments they get into over whether something was really retroactive or not…”
Probably happens everytime a booking gets lost.