Thread:The S/@comment-129731-20180309091559/@comment-995426-20180327220957

Yes, and in a few other very early volume 1 issues. Back when the parody still treated itself as a parody. But by issue #9 or so, the story was taking itself more and more seriously, and the more stilted phrasing really started to fade away from dialogue, and by City at War, the story was certainly taking itself dead seriously. The weird language you see in the very early issues are what tropers would call "early installment weirdness."