I know that he studied at the FBI Academy at Quantico.

Okay, this sounds familiar. But I couldn't reconcile it with the flaky playboy, so I wasn't sure.

I can see him losing faith in the law (better to redefine than to fix that which never found his parents' killer). Just not sure how he managed the slick transition.

Does anyone know how early the new Batman movie starts? I mean, I'm sure they'll cover the shooting, but when the main part of the narrative gets underway.

In Ultimate Spiderman 55, Doc Ock's arms talk to him. Do they do that in the normal Marvel-verse?

In Ultimate Spiderman 55, Doc Ock's arms talk to him.

Is that part of Ultimate Six ? I wasn't sure if they were actually talking to him, or if he just "felt them calling to him" cause he's a loony supervillain and all.

ita, I'm not sure about the normal Marvel-verse, but in the movie (very minor spoiler for Spider-man 2) his arms are AI-driven and it is implied that they do "speak" to him after the accident.

No, in the traditional Marvel U, it was the radiation from the accident that drove Otto nuts. When Otto became Doc Ock, transitors were the cutting edge.

Also, the first annotated Identity Crisis page has gone up.

The link is here.

Late 20s?

See Plei.

See Plei attempt to make sense of the timeline (HA!).

Top of my head, recent events put Bruce's parents as dying 25 years ago. The Joker became the Joker IIRC 12 years ago, and pre-Robin Bats is still (last I checked) one of the reasons behind that. Which makes Bruce (depending on what's considered what at the moment, and it seems to shift daily) no more than 22 when he became the Bat. Bruce is being portrayed as about mid-30s at the moment. Of course, Dick is mid-20s. Thinking about this too much will make your brain explode. Warning. Warning.

There seems to be an ongoing debate among the DC writers and editors as to how old their characters are. Judd Winick, Brad Meltzer, Kevin Smith and others have Green Arrow, Batman and most of the old guard pushing 40, at least. (Green Arrow, particularly, may well be over 40.)

Others seem to want theser characters younger.

Brad Meltzer, in Identity Crisis, upped the ante a bit by having Elongated Man say he's been a hero for nearly 20 years--which means Flash and the other original JLAers have also been active for about that long.

Thus, if, say, Batman was 20 when he started out, he's almost 40 now, which makes a bit of sense. If Dick Grayson popped up in Bats' first couple years, though, he'd be in his early thirties. Which makes sense on one level, but not in the way he's portrayed. I'd put Dick at 23 to 25 or so.

I'd hazard a guess that the current timeline has Bats and the others emerging about 15 years ago (easily rounded up to 20 in casual conversation) with Dick coming on the scene about 10 years ago. Give or take.

Is that part of Ultimate Six ?

I have no idea what Ultimate Six is. All I know is it's Ultimate Spidey #55.

I wasn't sure if they were actually talking to him, or if he just "felt them calling to him" cause he's a loony supervillain and all.

Nah, he's having a conversation with them, but we only see one side, his.

Kalshane -- this issue is one where the Spiderman movie is being filmed, so it could be that they do what they do in the movie simply because of that.

Ultimate Six was a limited series with Spidey and the Ultimates teaming up to take on Spidey's foes (Green Goblin, Electro, Doc Ock, Sandman, Kraven and someone else I forget at the moment...)