When you’re an old guy like me—Thirty frikkin’ four?!
Who let that happen?!—and you’ve been reading comics for a long time, you tend to take for granted just how insanely and needlessly complicated the continuity of it all really is.
It’s the times where someone asks me about a character and I start explaining it that I really tend to realize just how psychotic I must sound to a non-fan.
I mean, try explaining Cable’s full origin story and not coming off as the crazy guy that no one wants to sit near on the bus. Or Glenn Beck. Either one, really.
Who let that happen?!—and you’ve been reading comics for a long time, you tend to take for granted just how insanely and needlessly complicated the continuity of it all really is.
It’s the times where someone asks me about a character and I start explaining it that I really tend to realize just how psychotic I must sound to a non-fan.
I mean, try explaining Cable’s full origin story and not coming off as the crazy guy that no one wants to sit near on the bus. Or Glenn Beck. Either one, really.
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| “I’ll give you two reasons why I’m right. Just give me a second to make up some ‘facts.’” |
With that in mind, Marvel created its own separate universe just over a decade ago called Ultimate Marvel and it allowed creators the freedom to reintroduce and reimagine existing properties without the constraints of continuity that existed in Marvel proper.
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