Posted: 21 March 2012 at 11:24am | IP Logged | 11
|
|
|
In creator owned or other such isolated titles, that do not impact on a "shared universe", the characters can age if the drivers of the bus are so inclined.But in most fiction, aging the characters is very much dependent upon the needs of the stories being told. Look at James Bond, for instance, as a good example outside comics. In the movies, the fact that the actors playing him were aging was completely ignored -- and passing time for the character went largely ignored, too. (In Pierce Brosnan's first outing as Bond, M refers to him as a "cold war dinosaur", which is pretty absurd considering his age.) In comics, we had a whole lot of years in which this question was simply ignored. The early Marvel books played around with something akin to "real time", but once Stan and the Gang realized they were going to be around for a while, steps were taken to put the brakes on. Steps which later, less wise writers (coming mostly from the pool of fans-turned-pro) all too often ignored. Overall, then, and keeping in mind that all generalizations are false, the answer to the question in the thread title is NO.
|