Yeah. Sand's situation (and that of a lot of the other JSAers, for various reasons) was part of what I was trying to cover with "actual" vs "apparent" ages, though it may not have come through as clearly as I liked; i.e. Sand's actually old enough to have sidekicked during WWII, but he still appears 20-something.
And taking into account when the characters *appeared*, with anyone not JSA generation, yeah, whole 'nother ballpark--and then there are people like Ollie, who did *important things* that made sense in 1970 but make much less sense in 1995 or whenever current continuity has hauled them to (and this depends on who you ask).
And yet, it still does make a *difference* how old they are/are interpreted to be, even if your Ollie is not the same age as my Ollie (and neither of us can figure out just how many years Hal took off) and Dick Grayson started out fighting crime as a 7-year-old c. 1940...one of the things I like about the DCU is the sense of history and generations, even though the actual practice of it is so muddy and incoherent.
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Date: 2005-04-27 08:01 pm (UTC)And taking into account when the characters *appeared*, with anyone not JSA generation, yeah, whole 'nother ballpark--and then there are people like Ollie, who did *important things* that made sense in 1970 but make much less sense in 1995 or whenever current continuity has hauled them to (and this depends on who you ask).
And yet, it still does make a *difference* how old they are/are interpreted to be, even if your Ollie is not the same age as my Ollie (and neither of us can figure out just how many years Hal took off) and Dick Grayson started out fighting crime as a 7-year-old c. 1940...one of the things I like about the DCU is the sense of history and generations, even though the actual practice of it is so muddy and incoherent.