It's Mitzvah Time!

[woodwardiocom]

-In the most recent issue of The Thing (#8), two things of interest happen. First, the Thing finally has his bar mitzvah.

-Second, apparently the official Marvel timeline has been advanced from "10 years since the FF got hit with cosmic rays" to "13 years since the FF got hit with cosmic rays".

(These two facts are related.)

Comments

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

It's a good thing he had his bris on schedule...

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

Of all the subjects I wasn't expecting to come up today, Swamp Thing's foreskin kind of heads the list.

No, no.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

You're thinking Alex Holland, not Ben Grimm.

Our subject today is more rocky, less murky...

Besides, The Thing has had kids so he clearly has a, y'know, thing. Swamp Thing needed John Constantine's help to get Abby pregnant, so I think his salad is off the menu. So to speak.

Re: No, no.

[signsoflife.livejournal.com]

You're correct; Jon's been on about Swamp Thing a lot lately, so I suppose I must admit that the Thing's foreskin was higher on the unexpected list than. . .

Dear lord. Am I really having this conversation? BRAIN ERASER! Where's my brain eraser?

Re: No, no.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

When did Ben Grimm have kids?

Re: No, no.

[harlequinaide.livejournal.com]

Alex Ross's "Earth X" was set in the future, and had Grimm twins. I know it's not cannon, but they were so cute!

Re: No, no.

[notthebuddha.livejournal.com]

oh, okay. There was an in-canon issue where the Torch puts the sleeping Thing's hand in a bowl of warm water.

[unseelie23.livejournal.com]

Or Ben Grimm's even... :p

[feste-sylvain.livejournal.com]

Not to distract us from Ben Grimm's foreskin, but I had thought that the Marvel 'verse was pretty consistent about aging their characters on a 4::1 ratio of real-time::Marvel-time.

Why the sudden lurch?

[woodwardiocom.livejournal.com]

aging their characters on a 4::1 ratio of real-time::Marvel-time

-I've never heard that rule.

[unquietsoul5.livejournal.com]

Well it was in place in the late 80s according to some folks... but I'm not up on all the things that marvel has done in the intervening years.

But in the original timelines I believe believe Bobby (Iceman) was portrayed to be 13 or 14 in Xmen, and was in his 20s when he was in the short lived Champions Series and about mid 20s by the time the mutant massacre and Xforce came around...

What they've done since, I have no idea.... but 13 years is just way too ridiculous a short period of time. The FF came out the year I was born and the obsession to reduce age them for the youth-culture factor is downright silly and agist on their part.