Fantastic Four
Posted: Wed Mar 11, 2009 5:04 pm
Hi,
Have just found this website and love it! Have been fascinated by the timeline in Marvel comics for over thirty years and feel that the only way to work out who much time has passed from FF1 is to work it up day by day rather than try to work out ages and build theories around casual references in particular issues. The official indexes of way back did a great job of this by linking everything to Peter Parkers years in college etc. in the comment section and I think this helped to give chronology a cohesiveness that really impressed me. I love the new indexes too and hope they continue for a long time to come but I'd love to see a section (even a page or two!) explaining how much time has passed between one point and another - its the passage of time that is my major interest in chronology terms and I really miss them in these indexes.
Even if we had a crude timeline with major events listed for each year this could be used to guide writers of the future. Unfortunately if the number of years from FF1 is too large Marvel will never accept it as it would make the characters too old. I think it all has to be based around Spiderman seeing as he has the most number of appearances to fit into any 'year'. After all if it fits for Peter, it can be made to fit for other characters. I had a go a few years back of dividing all of the main Spiderman books up into Marvel years and think I did it pretty well (according to references issue by issue as to what was 'next week', last month' etc.) Will maybe have to dig it out again and see what people think.
I'm not a big fan of the recent run on Fantastic Four by Millar and Hitch but I did notice in #564 that Frankin was referenced as 'a few years younger than eleven' and Valeria was 'two and a half'. Anyone know how accurate this would be in terms of the overall picture? I think this is working on a premise of about 10 years since FF1. Any comments?
Have just found this website and love it! Have been fascinated by the timeline in Marvel comics for over thirty years and feel that the only way to work out who much time has passed from FF1 is to work it up day by day rather than try to work out ages and build theories around casual references in particular issues. The official indexes of way back did a great job of this by linking everything to Peter Parkers years in college etc. in the comment section and I think this helped to give chronology a cohesiveness that really impressed me. I love the new indexes too and hope they continue for a long time to come but I'd love to see a section (even a page or two!) explaining how much time has passed between one point and another - its the passage of time that is my major interest in chronology terms and I really miss them in these indexes.
Even if we had a crude timeline with major events listed for each year this could be used to guide writers of the future. Unfortunately if the number of years from FF1 is too large Marvel will never accept it as it would make the characters too old. I think it all has to be based around Spiderman seeing as he has the most number of appearances to fit into any 'year'. After all if it fits for Peter, it can be made to fit for other characters. I had a go a few years back of dividing all of the main Spiderman books up into Marvel years and think I did it pretty well (according to references issue by issue as to what was 'next week', last month' etc.) Will maybe have to dig it out again and see what people think.
I'm not a big fan of the recent run on Fantastic Four by Millar and Hitch but I did notice in #564 that Frankin was referenced as 'a few years younger than eleven' and Valeria was 'two and a half'. Anyone know how accurate this would be in terms of the overall picture? I think this is working on a premise of about 10 years since FF1. Any comments?