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Dylanio21
02-14-2008, 10:09 AM
I am pumped for Old Man Logan this summer, I think it's gonna be absolutely amazing. The idea of the future of the Marvel Universe having a very bad outcome is pretty awesome. I also like that it's fully in the Marvel Universe, or atleast that's what they're saying. But I don't know if this will all actually happen ever, considering the Heroes age at maybe 10 years every 30, if you're lucky.

Originally Cap was Frozen, Sub-Mariner doesn't age normally and Jim Hammond (the old torch) is an android. So it made sense for noone to ever age. But then about 40 years later...Cap dies not looking much older than when he was unfrozen. Now with mention of an Old Man Logan that isn't some kind of What If? type tale...it makes me wonder if the Marvel Universe will ever age normally. I love how everything in the Marvel Universe works together and everyone can have an effect on one another in a totally different book, but I wonder why Peter Parker isn't greying and why there isn't a whole new class of X-Men yet because Cyclops should be in his 50s by now...maybe 60s or 70s but the first class was pretty young when they started.

Well, with all the madness in the Marvel Universe happening and more coming up, maybe everything is scheduled for a huge change and they've let the Civil War team mess around with everything yet again, that'd be pretty cool. All the madness could end and we could start seeing a steady aging of the Marvel Heroes that won't have Spidey have his 50th Birthday in the year 3000.

Mister Mets
02-14-2008, 09:41 PM
What works for an eight issue storyline may not be the best approach for the entire Marvel Universe, especially if it takes fifty years in real time to get to the Old Man Logan scenes in Millar/ Mcniven's Wolverine.

Dylanio21
02-14-2008, 10:49 PM
It's 50 years in comic time...that changes all the time it would seem
Maybe in the next 5 years...everything will start being rapid or it'll be a whole House of M wierdo thing or something wild and creative will happen
my fingers are always crossed...well not really because I'm drawing a Thor comic right now...but when I'm not drawing, playing guitar...well that doesn't actually happen because I'm always using my hands...okay...I mean medaphorically crossed...yess....haha

Mister Mets
02-15-2008, 11:49 AM
It's 50 years in comic time...that changes all the time it would seem
Maybe in the next 5 years...everything will start being rapid or it'll be a whole House of M wierdo thing or something wild and creative will happen
my fingers are always crossed...well not really because I'm drawing a Thor comic right now...but when I'm not drawing, playing guitar...well that doesn't actually happen because I'm always using my hands...okay...I mean medaphorically crossed...yess....hahaThe problem with your scenario is that it wouldn't really inspire anything wild and creative. It would limit the future creators into showing what is now one possible future for the characters.

Millar and McNiven were under no obligation to portray the future Wolverine seen in Days of Future Past or The Wolverine: The End mini series. They could do a different version of the character. That ability is lost when you start doing official future versions.

Plus it seems that the majority of creators preferring working with a youngish (IE- not middle aged) Spider-Man and a Fantastic Four consisting of Reed and Sue Richards, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm, as opposed to what those franchises would be like with fifty years of growth.

Tater
02-16-2008, 10:42 AM
Read Spider-man Reign since you posted it here. Similar concept I believe as it's spider-man in his later years.