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Edit: Okay, I have to cop to it. I straight up forgot that Sydney's glasses auto translate and give her subtitles. I have no excuse for that, but my in-world justification on this page is that there's a half dozen people shouting over each other and the subtitles are racing by too fast for her to keep up with.

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This is an odd page, admittedly. To save people from having to type stuff into google translate, the jist of the page is basically:

P2 / "Block the door!" / "Yeah, right behind you!"P4 / "How can you do this? I attended your daughter's wedding!" / "And she's attending school in France! You think I can afford that on my salary?" / And then a bunch of guys yelling stop/hold it/etc.P5 / "I hope my lazy son in law will finally step up and get a job!"

I'm not sure how well google translate would do with that stuff since it was all output from GT to begin with. It's not nuanced French. I decided to write it in French, because as I lamented previously, there's no automatic Wolof translation service I can find, so it came down to French or Arabic, and since they're all cops and since French is the "official" language of Senegal, I went with that mostly, though some of the smaller speech bubbles are Arabic and Wolof.

I decided to have all the speech on the page be in another language is because that's what Sydney would experience. There's no way they'd all be speaking English if they weren't talking to the famous American superheroes. Sydney knows "I watched a ton of anime and I know a bunch of J-Pop songs by heart" levels of Japanese, like... 50 words in Spanish, a surprising amount of sign language, and weirdly, Morse code. Also a ton of swear words in a lot of languages. But she has no chance in this environment.

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Per Bernhardsson

What happened with her auto-translating glasses? Can they handle a multitude of galactic languages but not French?

David barber

Didn't she get a universal translator from the space station, tourist hub.

john kraemer

I'm confused about how the gun ended up pointed at the bald guy's head. was he threatening to shoot himself?

Aaron Mauthe

WANNA SEE A MAGIC TRICK?! GOOD!! 💥

Brett Peirce

Her glasses don't translate automatically?

Cley Faye

French is not too bad. "Arrêt!" is weird, nobody would say it that way. It should be "Arrête !" if the intended english is "stop!". The other line "Il semblerait que mon gendre bon à rien va enfin devoir trouver un travail!" would be more natural said like this: "Il semblerait que mon bon à rien de gendre va enfin devoir trouver un travail !" but both are fine gramatically (or something, I'm not a linguist).

Michael Obert

I think the only thing to add is 'Mon Dieu!', though that kind of reeks of old Maurice Chevalier

Jaxah

I don't get this. Panel 4 he's pointing the gun at the dude he's holding with his left arm, then panel 5 there is a gun pointed to his head, then panel 7 the guy he was holding with his left arm is now behind him instead of infront of him, and he's gripping the guys neck with his left hand?

Dan Curtis

guy has probably been compromised by the criminal organization

Eric Loken

A gun to the head - his or someone else - is usually a good thing to interrupt, and not something most people want to watch proceed.

eddi_TBH

I like how Sydney is seen reflected in the glass behind them. Nice trick to put her in the scene without changing it a lot.