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Discussion of Buffy and Angel comics, books, and more. Please don't get into spoilery details in the first week of release.


Michele T. - Jul 25, 2004 12:41:22 pm PDT #5054 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Babs is older enough than Dick that it's clearly part of why she's trying to brush him off in Year One. And she'd have to have an MLS to be librarian, so even graduating college early doesn't make her timeline work, from what I can tell. Luckily, post-Crisis continuity doesn't include her stint as a Congresswoman for us to try to explain away as well.

Dinah got in to superheroing at a very young age, as I recall, like late teens, and that's my fanwank for her age. I will continue to believe this even if I'm wrong.

Dinah has seen Nightwing naked, but only accidentally. (And really, how can she not know who he is? But I digress.)


P.M. Marc - Jul 25, 2004 1:04:08 pm PDT #5055 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Dinah got in to superheroing at a very young age, as I recall, like late teens, and that's my fanwank for her age. I will continue to believe this even if I'm wrong.

She's 19 in JLA Year One.

Babs is older enough than Dick that it's clearly part of why she's trying to brush him off in Year One. And she'd have to have an MLS to be librarian, so even graduating college early doesn't make her timeline work, from what I can tell.

I think I once figured out something that came almost close to reasonable, but I still wound up with an extra year or two, based on the few mentions of her age we get as Batgirl. I can figure a semi-realistic timeline in my head that has her with the MLS by 20 or 21, but that's as good as I can get.

So I just sort of wave my hands and set brain on "suspend disbelief" until traffic kicks in again and I start doing math. (I was doing this for Robins/Bruce's age the other day. Stopped the moment I got out of the car, just before my brain melted out my ears.)


Michele T. - Jul 25, 2004 1:22:20 pm PDT #5056 of 10000
with a gleam in my eye, and an almost airtight alibi

Don't do it, Plei! Tim Drake's timeline especially is only explicable via eddies in the space-time continuum.


P.M. Marc - Jul 25, 2004 9:19:34 pm PDT #5057 of 10000
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Don't do it, Plei! Tim Drake's timeline especially is only explicable via eddies in the space-time continuum.

On the plus side, it keeps me from going postal on the twenty mile drive into work.

On the minus side, Bruce keeps having become Batman at 20 according to the math.

Then I try to adjust, and Tim goes into negative numbers.


sumi - Jul 26, 2004 7:11:28 am PDT #5058 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

Woot! Joss is planning an FF comic!


DXMachina - Jul 26, 2004 8:07:07 am PDT #5059 of 10000
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Maybe it would be best not to abbreviate Firefly as FF in this thread. I thought he was going to be doing Fantastic Four until I read the article.


sumi - Jul 26, 2004 8:14:15 am PDT #5060 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

Sorry about that -- we'll call it "Serenity" I guess.


§ ita § - Jul 26, 2004 9:05:46 am PDT #5061 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Calling it Firefly's fine -- calling it FF is confusing.


askye - Jul 27, 2004 2:24:41 pm PDT #5062 of 10000
Thrive to spite them

I have some questions!

Local place was having a sale on old back issues and I bought a whole bunch but now I have questions. Most of what I got were various Titan titles and Outsiders.

In Team Titans and there are characters I don't really know about. Like Pantha. And who's "Baby"?

Then there's an issue where Donna Troy turned into a 50ft goddess but then was changed back with her husband and her son?

Who is Mirage and what's her deal with Nightwing and Starfire?

Actually I think those are my only questions right now.

Seeing the ads in the comics is interesting. There are ads for Def Leppard, the premiere of Time Trax, Sega Gensis and the "16 bit revolution", etc.


sumi - Jul 27, 2004 3:37:03 pm PDT #5063 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!

Isn't it "Teen Titans" not "Team Titans"?