Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!henry From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) Newsgroups: net.comics Subject: Re: Ketchup Comments #1 Message-ID: <5096@utzoo.UUCP> Date: Sat, 23-Feb-85 21:13:05 EST Article-I.D.: utzoo.5096 Posted: Sat Feb 23 21:13:05 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 23-Feb-85 21:13:05 EST References: <583@oddjob.UChicago.UUCP> <5964@rochester.UUCP> <5012@utzoo.UUCP>, <1245@shark.UUCP> Organization: U of Toronto Zoology Lines: 17 Keywords: clone > Ummmmmm. Lest we forget, folks, Xavier's body is younger now than > any of his pupils' .... Remember, he was cloned and mind-transplanted > at the end of the Sleazoid Wars? This is true, but irrelevant to the point I was making. The conclusion that Xavier must have been a young adult not long after WW2 is based on his encounter with Gabrielle Haller, which cannot possibly have happened too long after the war. (She was still a young woman at the time of the encounter, remember, and she wasn't a child at the time of her trauma, which was during the war.) The conclusion that the year in the Marvel universe cannot be later than about 1970 is based on Haller's son, born as a result of that not-too-long-postwar encounter, being an adolescent now. Charles Xavier's current apparent age doesn't figure into either line of reasoning. -- Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology {allegra,ihnp4,linus,decvax}!utzoo!henry