I've just replied to your latest correspondence. I even offered to help if you want, despite that probably causing UT#353 to become UT#353 and 354!




That's a common writer's problem. Hence the "switch-n-bait narrative technique. In Lee's case it is quite clearly the jounral of the poor investigator working out what happened and finding him or herself increasingly out of their depth as he looks into the doing of the legendary Lee Bookman.




That's what I expected, too.







Why not? Or, see the e-mail I sent you about another way to tie-in a time travel adventure.




I think the Legion stuff is pretty default now. He was a member at the time I last wrote Untold Tales (last week), which is set in unspecificed comic-book time but just a couple of weeks after his induction. So far he's still a newbie. The chances are that if I tell more Legion stories I'll continue following my old plans for them from that point in continuity while trying not to blatantly contradict anything people have written that post-dates that.

As to whether or how long Ham-Boy sticks around with the Legion from the point I'm writing at, and whether we continue to "real-time" the Legion and assume that years have passed since than, that's a wider discussion for the board.

I think we're now at the point where Stan Lee and Roy Thomas must have been around 1971, when the Marvel universe was ten years old and Franklin stopped ageing. Up to then it was assumed that Reed and Ben had served in WW2. After that, "Marvel time" assumed that the FF had been around for "Eight years", later ten and then twelve years. Stark's chest injury moved from Korea to Viet Nam to Afghanistan to the Middle East. And so on.

If the PV is real-time, then it is 17 years since the League of Regulars/LL first formed. More dangerously for us, Dancer, who was 22 in 2000, is now 39. Shep has gone on record as saying she only allowed herself to be brought into the Parodyverse to "be 22 again". Many of the juvenile cast should be parents themselves by now. So I'm not sure how to proceed. My immediate fix is to keep on telling stories following straight on from where I left off in 2010 and avoid the question.




It is hard to say, isn't it? I think Jason wrote a different line-up from the one I'm using at one point, but there were so few readers around by then I'm not sure it really impacted. Again, a tough one.