Age of Ultron timelines
Posted: Fri Aug 02, 2013 12:55 am
It has taken me a while but I've noticed a few significant details that should be mentioned with regards to [Age of Ultron #10].
First, see here.
Second, I feel that special notice should be given to those six characters who are shown reacting to the breaking of the space-time continuum. Of those six, four (Wolverine, Iron Man, Star-Lord, and Pym) are apparently in the present-day of Reality-616 when they experience the effect. The fifth is the Ultimate Spider-Man who is in his alternate universe when the effect hits him but, oddly, the event isn't mentioned in his thought balloons only a few pages later. And the sixth, the most interesting of the group, is the Thing but during that time in the late 16th Century when he was briefly disguised as the pirate Blackbeard waaay back in Fantastic Four #5 (1962).
Third, there is a slight continuity glitch with Stark being shown experiencing the breakage while on Earth since Guardians of the Galaxy #5 reveals that Star-Lord experienced the effect a few days earlier, between issues 4 & 5, and the GOTG series makes it clear that Stark hasn't yet been back to Earth since being removed from the planet between GOTG #2 & 3. Also, in GOTG #5, Star-Lord states that Drax was with him hunting down some Badoon when the hiccup occurred and that Drax saw "lightning" but not the time distortions. However, the relevant panel in this issue shows Star-Lord fighting Badoon alongside Groot and Rocket Raccoon. Of course, I suppose that Drax could just be off-panel in that fight scene.
Fourth, there are two individuals who are conspicuously absent from this newly-altered timeline: Wolverine and the Invisible Woman. Previous issues have shown that, after they went back in time and killed Henry Pym, Logan and Sue returned to a new present-day reality (Age of Morgana Le Fey) in which counterparts of themselves already existed. "Dr. Sue Richards" had been away from Earth for quite some time but the other Wolverine was still there. So, when Logan went back a second time and changed what his past self had previously done, he and Sue returned to a "restored" present which was actually just as much a new reality as the previous one was. So, where were their counterparts, the Wolverine and Invisible Woman of this new reality?
Don Campbell
First, see here.
Second, I feel that special notice should be given to those six characters who are shown reacting to the breaking of the space-time continuum. Of those six, four (Wolverine, Iron Man, Star-Lord, and Pym) are apparently in the present-day of Reality-616 when they experience the effect. The fifth is the Ultimate Spider-Man who is in his alternate universe when the effect hits him but, oddly, the event isn't mentioned in his thought balloons only a few pages later. And the sixth, the most interesting of the group, is the Thing but during that time in the late 16th Century when he was briefly disguised as the pirate Blackbeard waaay back in Fantastic Four #5 (1962).
Third, there is a slight continuity glitch with Stark being shown experiencing the breakage while on Earth since Guardians of the Galaxy #5 reveals that Star-Lord experienced the effect a few days earlier, between issues 4 & 5, and the GOTG series makes it clear that Stark hasn't yet been back to Earth since being removed from the planet between GOTG #2 & 3. Also, in GOTG #5, Star-Lord states that Drax was with him hunting down some Badoon when the hiccup occurred and that Drax saw "lightning" but not the time distortions. However, the relevant panel in this issue shows Star-Lord fighting Badoon alongside Groot and Rocket Raccoon. Of course, I suppose that Drax could just be off-panel in that fight scene.
Fourth, there are two individuals who are conspicuously absent from this newly-altered timeline: Wolverine and the Invisible Woman. Previous issues have shown that, after they went back in time and killed Henry Pym, Logan and Sue returned to a new present-day reality (Age of Morgana Le Fey) in which counterparts of themselves already existed. "Dr. Sue Richards" had been away from Earth for quite some time but the other Wolverine was still there. So, when Logan went back a second time and changed what his past self had previously done, he and Sue returned to a "restored" present which was actually just as much a new reality as the previous one was. So, where were their counterparts, the Wolverine and Invisible Woman of this new reality?
Don Campbell