Psychic Kids Club: Nate Grey and Franklin Richards

[auggie18]

Back in the 90s, Nate Grey was doing his new character tour of Marvel Universe and he hit the Fantastic Four stage. He ended up having bro-time with Johnny Storm and hanging out with the cosmic kid himself, Franklin Richards.





I don't think that they met again before Nate died. But he's back now, so he might as well hang out with his future brother-in-law.

 

Comments

[jaybee3]

I love how everyone ages in Marvel except Franklin who goes up and down - is he a pre-teen, teen, toddler, what? depending on the artist. I fully expect Valeria to be drawn as older than Franklin at some point.

[drtechnobabel]

I would love it if they eventually revealed that the reason behind the Richards' kids fluctuating ages was because it was being done deliberately as part of some plot by Dr. Doom, or an attempt by Reed to control their emerging powers, and that Franklin's latent abilities keep shifting reality so no one else can tell what's happening. Hell, make it both, and have Reed and Doom in a years-long tug of war over whether Franklin's hit puberty or not.

[q99]

I can't see it being a Doom thing, but Reed attempting to control, yea.

[roguezombie]

This was pretty much going to be my comment too. Him and Luna Maximioff will forever remain in the 8-12 range. Now Ahura has surpassed Luna, despite being born six years after her.

[fiddlingfrog.livejournal.com]

And poor Danni Cage, doomed (hah!) forever to be a toddler.

[cainofdreaming]

I dunno about that. Wanda's kids and Jean's and Scott's kid got quite a growth spurts, so there's always the time travel/soul transference option.

Simply growing up? Yeah, that's an urban myth in MU.

[q99]

I can see Danni growing up, since the parenting thing is more a part of Luke and Jessica's story.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

[night4345]

I thought Franklin ages and deages himself based on what he feels.

[jaybee3]

This is what I always assumed as well (as an in-universe reason at least) but nobody else in the Marvel Universe seems to notice. Under some artists Franklin still looks the same age he was when Valeria was born!

[halloweenjack]

He literally did this, back when Byrne was on the book. He heard some sitcom character tell another character to "grow up" on TV when he was having a power surge, and the next thing you know, he's looking like Blonde Jesus.

[wizardru]

Speaking as someone who started reading comics when Franklin was a BABY, that kind of amuses me.

As for it only being Franklin? Kitty Pryde is hanging on line 1. She's gone up and done constantly over the last 20 or so years. And unlike Franklin, it didn't have anything to do with cosmic powers or aliens...just editorial fiat. She's not the only one, of course. It happens to any character who isn't an adult in the MU. They'll experience sudden age jumps as a new writer comes on board and then often a reversal with another writer or editor choice.

Comics, everybody!

[icon_uk]

Doug Ramsey appeared to be resurrected at the same age as his old New Mutant team-mates (early 20's or si(, so had apparently aged whilst dead (though magic being part of his resurrectiion could explain that).

Meanwhile PAD has recently confirmed that for the purposes of X-Factor, he's writing Doug as a seventeen year old.

Which would work if Doug'd body had aged and his mind hadn't (what with being dead), but it's all rather vague.

[bruinsfan]

The being resurrected older than you were when you died thing is pretty weird. You'd think the reset would pretty much have to be to age at death or earlier.

[icon_uk]

Again, magic explains a lot, especially when coupled with the technorganic virus that was also essential the Necrosha resurrections.

If the spell decreed "I restore you to life as if you had never been gone" then it might take that literally and age them to match where they should be if they hadn't ever died.

Then again, the resurrected Hellions didn't appear to be any older than they had been, so it could be Doug actually wanted to be the same age as his friends and asked the TO virus to age him a bit when it reconstructed his body from the corpse that he had been.

If in doubt, "A wizard did it", is usually as good an asnwer as you'll get... if it's good enough for Xena.