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June 26th, 2007 1:10 PM

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Something I wished about comics

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So, I just finished the 52 trade, and I have been reading Countdown, and I love them both. Also, I just read about a possible Magneto movie.

Trust me here, I am going somewhere with this.

Something I really liked about 52 and Countdown is the passage of real time. If a comic were to keep this up, you could watch a character grow up, get old, and die. It's something I have enjoyed about Harry Potter as well.

There is a point, I promise you. Keep me with me here.

Now, this Magneto movie is supposed to go over the experiences of Magneto as a boy in the concentration camps of Germany. That's cool and all, but will be completely unbelievable to any kids I have now, since almost all the people who were alive during this time will be dead by they read comics that tackle such issues, so this origin will mean nothing to them. This makes me sad, since they will probably keep Magneto going, maybe even rewrite the character so he is Asian and his family was a victim of Pol Pot or some such. I would rather they let the man die as he is and have someone take up his mantle. I want time to pass and keep going. Besides poor editing or no editing, what really screws up continuity is the relativity of time in comics, since you can never be quite sure when an event takes place, or even which earth or universe it is in.

I'm no continuity junkie, I just want the characters I read to get old with me.

Oh well, wishful thinking.

James

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