I am Kris, hear me ramble

[ascending_angel]

This is mostly pertaining to Marvel and DC (but I guess soap operas, too, but do we have any of those characters? Er...) But I was wondering if anyone was interested in discussing sliding timescales.

I know, I know, massive headache to even think about BUT it's important to our playing, right? Right.

This thread in particular was really fun and

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[listen_bud]

I think when you think about it, comics as a medium with no foreseeable end is really a kind of flawed system in and of itself. To have so many writers working on so many titles at different points in time makes it extremely difficult to maintain any completely constant form of quality control, I think. I mean, when you think about it, the 60s really isn't that long ago, and already the timeline and canon and all of that is already considerably swiss cheesed with the concessions they have to make and the retcons they go with. I think, in my opinion, comics must be more difficult to work with than most fiction or manga or what have you. BUT ANYWAY.

I recall, I think it was Quesada, saying that because of the sliding timescale that the Marvel Universe is actually only around 13-14 years old. I play Peter like he's supposed to be 30, because he really reached a nice level of maturity at one point in time, but I do believe he's supposed to be like... perpetually 27-28 forever. I mean, it's kind of a preposterous system, but what else do they have? They're never going to give up Spider-man, or the X-Men, or FF or anybody else.

They'll keep building on it, sure, retconning only whatever cultural flotsam made up previous stories that they need to slide forward, but man I can only wonder how long before it becomes really difficult for them to keep a reign on.

[ascending_angel]

It was Quesada, yeah. I actually went and heard him talk about Spidey's timeline last summer and OH DEAR JESUS CONFUSING. but you are right, and I do agree with you that there aren't very many options that they can do considering it would be ludicrous to say that every hero has had DEAGING SERUM INJECTED INTO THEM ^^~!!

[pridefall]

WELL!!! I calculated this last year with some help, and, yeah, you're right on the money. Peter can be no more than 32 years old, no less than 29 years old if the events that happened in his life didn't transpire...one week right after another xD