Jessica Jones-- Marvel/Netflix

[Mr Light]

The actual events of a comic book usually only take place over 1-2 days. And the cliffhanger leads directly into the next issue.

Therefore, 1 comic book = @ 2 days

1 year = 183 issues

So, 700 issues of Spider-Man = 3.8 years

Of course, timelines didn't work like this in Silver Age so it's all very loose. I believe heroes usually say "I've been doing this for five years".

 

[Alidar Jarok]

Your second statement disproves the first. All it actually means is she and Parker were teenagers at the same time. When that was changes, as the year of publication moves forward. I doubt Parker and Jones were written as being in their mid 50s in 2001.

In fairness, that's not entirely true. Characters don't age at uniform rates in the Marvel universe. Kitty Pryde ages faster than Colossus, for example (to make their relationship less creepy). On the other hand, people like Leech or the Fantastic Four kids generally don't age.

That being said, Jessica Jones wasn't introduced with Peter Parker in the silver age. It was established in the early 2000s that she was a classmate with Peter Parker. That means, at the time Alias was written, she was established as being the same age as Parker. There's no issues of selective aging there.

True. But very few characters age at a realistic rate. I've no idea how old Kitty is these days. But she's not in her 40s.

Well, I agree that no one ages in real time. But it would be possible to have a universe where everyone ages at the same rate (or, I would argue, logarithmically, aging faster in the silver age than now but still aging), but it's not the case. Generally, people age to adulthood and then age very slowly as time goes on.

Was Peter that much older than Kitty? I recall she was in her early teens when she joined. I think Peter was the youngest of the All New All Different group, maybe in his teens as well.

My memory was that he was 19 and she was 13 1/2 when they first met. Not an insane amount of time different, but that time would matter at that age. Even if he were 17 (as Turtletrekker recalls), he would still be a little too old. And, in fairness, he knew that he was too old for her (although, if you believe him, they would have been married back home in Siberia).

 

[Nerys Myk]

Comic characters can yo yo in the age department as well. There was a time when Hawk and Dove were shown to be adults, leaping past their Teen Titans contemporaries and then "deaged" back to teens in later stories.

 

[Christopher]

Comic characters can yo yo in the age department as well. There was a time when Hawk and Dove were shown to be adults, leaping past their Teen Titans contemporaries and then "deaged" back to teens in later stories.

Well, DC's different, since they reboot their whole universe about once a decade anyway. So it's easier to justify such things than with Marvel, where it's all supposedly a single continuity.

 

[ManOnTheWave]

I believe Piotr was seventeen, Kitty was thirteen. Kitty was unusual for a Marvel comic character, because she aged. Stories made specific references to her being fourteen and then fifteen. I don't remember Colossus's age being referenced until post Secret Wars when Nightcrawler and Wolverine take him to a bar to talk over his dumping Kitty. He's old enough to go into a bar and drink.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Comic characters can yo yo in the age department as well. There was a time when Hawk and Dove were shown to be adults, leaping past their Teen Titans contemporaries and then "deaged" back to teens in later stories.

Well, DC's different, since they reboot their whole universe about once a decade anyway. So it's easier to justify such things than with Marvel, where it's all supposedly a single continuity.

This was just in a couple of years, before any of the reboots.

 

[C_Miller]

I though I read somewhere that Marvel's characters aged 1 year for every 4 real years.

Peter Parker's been around since 1962, so that would make him 32?

That honestly seems to work out pretty well.

Kitty Pryde debuted at 13 in 1980 which would make her roughly 23 now.

It works better for teenage characters. Reed Richards was probably 35 at the youngest in 1961. Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, Tony Stark would all be pushing 50 right now.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Tony Stark is not on his first body, and Extremis would have turned back the clock a little too. Reed is grey as ####. Mr. Fantastic used to be 15 years older than his wife, but now they're both old as dirt with matching wrinkles all over... Does Reed Richards because of his stretchy powers wrinkle, or because of his stretchy powers, does he superwrinkle as his elasticity becomes less reliably tight at rest? Reed needs to take a kegels class for everything. They went so far as to say that Ultimate Reed Richards (The Maker) doe not have internal organs any more, but they also say that he increases his intellect by stretching his brain into different shapes which has unfortunately created abnormal psychology and why he is now a Supervillain. The transformation to the Hulk and back, gaining and shedding extradimensional matter, means that the composition of unique matter that makes up Bruce Banner is unlikely to ever be all that similar from week to week. The appearance and attributes of Bruce Banner (as well as any of the Hulks) as a human being is designed and redesigned with every transformation by Banner's subconscious who only "ages/matures" the template used to cookiecut Banner/hulk because the subconscious of these creatures believes that ageing is normal and necessary. Even an older argument just talking about the Hulk's healing factor should make the Hulk immortal completely resistant to natural ageing (See Hulk the End, however the Maestro is only 140ish years old but he looks like a grizzled hillbilly in a jugband. UNCLE JESSIE! Uncle Jessie from the Dukes of Hazzard would have been perfect to play the Maestro in the 1970s live action Hulk Series.)

Birthdates do not equate to physical age.

 

[Chris McCarver]

They spelled out what they call the "sliding timescale" in the first volume of the Marvel Universe Handbook hardcover series. Basically, Fantastic Four #1 marks the beginning of what's called the "modern age" or the "heroic age," and that's where the time compression begins. Almost anything Marvel published prior to that happened in the year it was published unless the story established a different timeframe.

The period between FF #1 and the books published around late 1965 constitute two years of "Marvel time," since Peter Parker was established to have become Spider-Man during his sophomore year of high school and he graduated high school in Amazing Spider-Man #28 (publication date: Sept. 1965). I tend to lump the wedding of Reed Richards and Sue Storm (FF Annual #3, Oct. 1965) into that two-year period, but YMMV. After that, 4-5 years of publication = one year of Marvel time.

My personal estimation goes:

Year One = 11/1961-10/1963
Year Two = 11/1963-10/1965
Year Three = 11/1965-10/1969
Year Four = 11/1969-10/1973
Year Five = 11/1973-10/1977
Year Six = 11/1977-10/1981
Year Seven = 11/1981-10/1985
Year Eight = 11/1985-10/1989
Year Nine = 11/1993-10/1997
Year Ten = 11/1997-10/2001
Year Eleven = 11/2001-10/2005
Year Twelve = 11/2005-10/2009
Year Thirteen = 11/2009-10/2013

Then there's the post-Secret Wars line-wide eight-month time jump, so I figure anything after 10/2013 up till the end of the time jump is Year Fourteen, and Year Fifteen begins with the post-Secret Wars "All New, All Different" relaunch that began a couple weeks ago.

 

[Guy Gardener]

The first volume of the Handbook was from 1984?

I don't think they even pretend that there's an algorythm anymore. Time just bends to the requirements of the story.

OH!

On The Simpsons last night Sideshow Bob said "I have spent the last 24 years trying to kill a 10 year old!"

 

[Mr Light]

^^

That line cracked me up. That was actually the first good Treehouse of Horror in years!

 

[Turtletrekker]

Rumor, but not an unreasonable one (possible spoiler at the link)...

Spoiler: Rumor

Charlie Cox apparently will be appearing in Jessica Jones. As Matt or Daredevil is unknown, if it's even true. But like I said, it's not unreasonable, There was a little overlap in the filming of JJ and DD S2.

 

[kitik]

Rumor, but not an unreasonable one (possible spoiler at the link)...

Spoiler: Rumor

Charlie Cox apparently will be appearing in Jessica Jones. As Matt or Daredevil is unknown, if it's even true. But like I said, it's not unreasonable, There was a little overlap in the filming of JJ and DD S2.

The free Jessica Jones comic that Marvel gave away a few weeks ago seemed to hint that

Spoiler: possible spoilers for JJ tv show

Jessica might be interested in finding out more about this Daredevil character

The comic itself wasn't much of an introduction to Jessica for brand new viewers. I kind of think it was more for comic readers already familiar with her, and it was meant to show what type of character she is going to be at the start of the tv series. "This is who she is right now and this is where she is going to fit into the MCU/Netflix-verse at the beginning of the series."

 

[JD]

Rumor, but not an unreasonable one (possible spoiler at the link)...

Spoiler: Rumor

Charlie Cox apparently will be appearing in Jessica Jones. As Matt or Daredevil is unknown, if it's even true. But like I said, it's not unreasonable, There was a little overlap in the filming of JJ and DD S2.

I hope this is true. I think it would make sense to have the characters at least be aware of each other before The Defenders, even if they aren't already working together.

 

[Turtletrekker]

20 new stills.

#13 shows us a very purple looking David Tennant.

 

[Commander Richard]

Looks like purple lighting.

 

[Reverend]

Yeah, it looks like they've used coloured lighting to create that effect. It seems like they're sticking to the idea that Killgrave looks outwardly normal, but they'll keep referencing the colour purple in general as his sort of signature, as evidenced by this and the title sequence.

 

[JD]

We also see him wearing a purple suit in the new trailer I'm posting below.

[yt]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3UYWK2jeX0[/yt]

I can't believe how great this looks. Daredevil was awesome, and this looks like it has potential to be even better.

 

[BillJ]

Looks good and Ritter seems perfect for the part.

 

[Mr. Adventure]

It's very brief but it looks like the purple lighting might be used to signify when the Purple Man's power is at work.