Whatever faults Slott may have I'm glad he's bringing back one of the less well-known supporting characters? I wonder which version of that body Roberta has. Maybe O'Hoolihan the doorman can show up next?
What will his legal arguments be in this case? What is the legal status of a minor clone of one's self in the MU? Love to see Jen argue this case.
And, Reed adding the "Wingless" appellation to "Wizard" is so Silver Age.
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No. :P Weirdly, Reed has always had those... even before he even had powers.
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Seriously. How old is Reed in this anyways? Already has grey temples. WHY!?!?!?
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Yeah, Reed should be about 60 now. Around 15 years since they got their powers, plus Reed and Sue aged up five years after Secret Wars (though the time between then and their return was only one year for Johnny and Ben).
My point though, was that de-aging the team should've resulted in all of them being younger than they were when they got their powers (as shown by Ben's comment about being able to lift more than ever before) and a Reed who was physically in his 20s or 30s would be less likely to have the grey hair (The Maker, his Ultimate counterpart, is younger and not grey). There's a reason they wrote it in a way that Johnny didn't require de-aging - he would've de-aged back to childhood.
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IN Story, from back then, when they reversed the Skrull aging rays, they only had one setting, which was Ben and Reed's relative age. It was actually said that perhaps because of that, Sue went a little more into her youth, than they did.
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I disagree. I don't think Marvel's sliding timeline has been bumped up to 15 years. Unofficially, it tends to stay at around 10-12 years. I've seen nothing official that states the time spent on Battleworld has been rolled into it. My take is that in the last issue of Secret Wars 2015, everything got rebooted to the time before the incursions occurred. If you recall, At the end of Secret Wars #9, we see Black Panther in Wakanda around the time Black Swan shows up in Hickman's New Avengers #1 only this time she doesn't. So IMO that shows that everything rebooted from that point forward.
In any case I think it is plausible to use the fact that their initial exposure to cosmic rays may have slowed down the aging process anyway. Now, it's probably not as powerful as the Power Cosmic that enabled Norrin Radd to live through perhaps a billion years. Now think about the fact that Doom directly transferred some of the Power Cosmic to himself back in Fantastic Four #57 and a writer could easily posit that although he may not have a life span of a billion years but could have an increased life span...perhaps a couple hundred years.
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Ben's had a Bar Mitzvah like ceremony celebrating 13 years since his turning into the Thing. As to actual character time passing, I think Reed and Doom are the only ones who should keep their aging from Secret wars as pretty much everybody else was rebooted. The FF also had an extra year from Fraction's Fantastic Four run which is rarely referenced. But the FF's timeframe is so ill-defined that arguments can be made for any number of possibilities.
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