Age poll

[caiusbackup]

Since 11 of you said 'yes' and the other one said 'maybe', I present the AGE POLL! It's designed for DC fans and characters, but with a certain amount of interpretation could be applied to other fannish obsessions you might have...

[Poll #482774]

Comments

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

...this is one of the Great Mysteries of DC continuity, I suspect.

I'd put him down as either "More than 35, but not MUCH MORE" or "Safely older than Batman"...I tried to structure the poll to cover these things but some people just escape all reason (or at least, all reason I'm able to apply at midnight).

[basingstoke.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they're all pretty mysterious. There's also Sand--actually, all the JSA with their world-hopping, they're a pickle.

At this point, I tend to think of all the character as non-age-bound, really. I mean--REALLY, in reality, Dick is OLDER THAN MY DAD. So, yeah. I don't know.

[caiusmajor.livejournal.com]

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.