Reply #7: Thank you for the history lesson....however [View All]

[Liberal Veteran]

I have been reading the X-Men since the mid-70's (and finally gave up on them in the late 90's).

I didn't say HE DID SERVE in WW2. I said he COULD HAVE (if he was in his mid to late 30's when he was introduced in 1962) without it being totally unbelievable or relying on any bad de-aging tricks. At this point, I don't think we can make any assumptions about anyone's age. Reed Richards and Ben Grimm were both originally written as WW2 vets (and that was later changed as well) and I never assumed there was a huge age difference between them and Charles. As time went on, trying to pin any character to any specific war became that much more illogical.

And no, I am not a big Spidey fan either. I read Ultimate Spiderman because it's not bogged down with 40 years of writing, but the 616 universe characters are in dire need of a reboot. I think anytime they start spread the same character across multiple books like that, they run the risk of the character being overexposed and people trying to explain how character x could have been in two and sometimes four places at the same time (which happens WAY too often).

Gambit was interesting for a brief while, but I don't really care for the character anymore. Not sure any of the current x-folk can make for a decent movie.