Comics, especially superhero comics, have been around for a long time. Despite being around for so long, almost no comic book character has really aged. Characters that have been famous for generations, like Batman and Spider-Man, are more or less the same age as when they started. Why is this? Well, if superheroes aged in real time, Spider-Man would be geriatric and would need to be replaced. The two biggest comic companies, Marvel and DC, have separate tactics for keeping their characters eternally young.
Marvel uses a “sliding timescale,” meaning that time moves differently in-universe and out. Everything has still happened, just a lot closer together than fans experience. A Spidey story written in the ’80s may have happened only ten years ago for the web-slinger. DC chooses to reboot their universe every few years. They wipe the slate clean and reset the characters and the universe. This has the added benefit of also giving new readers a jumping-on point! Both styles have their merits and achieve the same thing but slightly differ. Marvel’s characters are technically ageless, existing across multiple generations. DC characters, on the other hand, just keep getting younger.
With each DC reboot and reset, Superman has reverted to a young hero near the start of his career. Some attempts have been made to age him up more, but it’s clear that editorial wants to keep him young. His son Jon Kent was recently aged from a young teen into his early twenties to seemingly keep Clark and Lois young while still having an older son.
Comics, especially superhero comics, have been around for a long time. Despite being around for so long, almost no comic book character has really aged. Characters that have been famous for generations, like Batman and Spider-Man, are more or less the same age as when they started. Why is this? Well, if superheroes aged in real time, Spider-Man would be geriatric and would need to be replaced. The two biggest comic companies, Marvel and DC, have separate tactics for keeping their characters eternally young.
Marvel uses a “sliding timescale,” meaning that time moves differently in-universe and out. Everything has still happened, just a lot closer together than fans experience. A Spidey story written in the ’80s may have happened only ten years ago for the web-slinger. DC chooses to reboot their universe every few years. They wipe the slate clean and reset the characters and the universe. This has the added benefit of also giving new readers a jumping-on point! Both styles have their merits and achieve the same thing but slightly differ. Marvel’s characters are technically ageless, existing across multiple generations. DC characters, on the other hand, just keep getting younger.
With each DC reboot and reset, Superman has reverted to a young hero near the start of his career. Some attempts have been made to age him up more, but it’s clear that editorial wants to keep him young. His son Jon Kent was recently aged from a young teen into his early twenties to seemingly keep Clark and Lois young while still having an older son.
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