X-23 - BABY-SITTING ADVENTURES

[brooms]

Preview for X-23 #17!







This is so cute :3

Comments

[glprime]

Agreed. I just wish the sliding timescale would snap back. At best, Franklin's a late-teens/early twenties like the Power Pack kids should be, and Val's middle-to-high school aged.

[jaybee3]

Franklin will never age. It's like an unwritten Marvel rule. You can fanwank it that given his powers he deliberately keeps himself young (just like he changed history that caused Val to be born instead of miscarried).

[glprime]

To that I say Bucky, Jean Grey, Uncle Ben.

Unwritten rules are traditions people are two unambitious to challenge.

[lorriek]

Hasn't Peter Parker been Spider-Man about 12 or 13 years, Marvel-time (although Marvel would love you to believe he's only 25)? Franklin has been around for a long time, but in-universe he shouldn't be older than 10 or so. The problem for me is that there seems to be no consensus as to how old he should be written and drawn. The poor kid seems to fluctuate in age constantly. How old is he supposed to be in these panels? I can't tell.

Besides, if it's any character's fault Franklin can't age it's Peter "Spider-Man is all about youth" Parker.

[jaybee3]

I agree how he's drawn has clouded the issue. Franklin still looks the same age as when Val was BORN while they've aged her up to 5 or 6 or more. Eventually she'll end up being older than him.