| Posted: 04 December 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged | 9
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This and GENERATIONS, in my opinion, are some of the only series that handle time passage and character aging properly.•• Each for its own reason. GENERATIONS, of course, by virtue of being an "imaginary story", didn't have to worry about the repercussions of aging characters. In fact, aging the characters was about 80% of what the book was created for! LOST GENERATION, on the other hand, by dealing with events set exclusively in the Past (well, okay, a little bit in the Future) was free to allow real time to pass, again because it was a large part of the whole POINT of the series. But real time remains a problem in regular, ongoing monthlies. The Fantastic Four celebrated their Fiftieth Anniversary this year (2011). There's no way fifty years can have passed for the characters, yet there are some fans who not only want this to be the case, but who are prepared to jump thru the most extraordinary hoops to make it happen. Like establishing that there is something that is causing the main characters to age more slowly. (One reader suggested the radiation in Peter Parker's blood was causing his own aging process to be slowed down tremendously, AND having the same effect on people around him. Because, you know, nobody would notice THAT, right?) The truly bizarre thing is, even as there are some readers who can, with a straight face, say the adventures of a eighty year old Batman (and he'd really be MUCH older) would be "interesting", there are those who want real time to pass but leave the characters somehow unaffected. Which is, when you think about it, EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENS. The only difference is, because these are works of FICTION, we don't have to actually SAY that "real time" is passing but the characters are somehow "immune" to it. After all, seriously, what's the point of that?
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