Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 (Tek) 9/28/84 based on 9/17/84; site shark.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!sdcrdcf!hplabs!tektronix!orca!shark!hutch From: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Ketchup Comments #1 Message-ID: <1245@shark.UUCP> Date: Sat, 9-Feb-85 03:43:12 EST Article-I.D.: shark.1245 Posted: Sat Feb 9 03:43:12 1985 Date-Received: Mon, 11-Feb-85 04:39:13 EST References:<583@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> <5964@rochester.UUCP> <5012@utzoo.UUCP> Reply-To: hutch@shark.UUCP (Stephen Hutchison) Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR Lines: 32 Keywords: clone Summary: In article <5012@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes: >> ... Xavier is a little different. He has always appeared >> older because of his bald head, but recent X-Men stories say he was >> only in maybe his late twenties when he founded the X-Men. >> I think the confrontation with the bad guy who crippled Prof. X's >> legs has been set at 1960. > >Unfortunately, I'm not sure this can be reconciled with the Gabrielle >Haller business. Her original trauma was very firmly tied to WW2. >It is difficult to realistically put her birthdate later than perhaps >1935, and it should probably be a bit earlier. And she was definitely >still a young woman when Xavier cured her. Furthermore, their contact >was relatively brief, and resulted in a child who is now an adolescent. > >Unless one makes *some* kind of strange assumption somewhere, Charles >Xavier must have been a young adult not too long after WW2, and the >current year in the Marvel universe cannot be much later than 1970. >-- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology > {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry Ummmmmm. Lest we forget, folks, Xavier's body is younger now than any of his pupils' .... Remember, he was cloned and mind-transplanted at the end of the Sleazoid Wars? They force-grew his recipient body to a comfortable level of maturity (like, about 22) and then did the transplant. Still, he is literally less than a year old. Continuity, anyone? -Hutch