It's been sometime since I decided to write something "meaty". Well, not exactly but I revisited my old post discussing the problem of the comic book timeline . I remember blindly following comics and I realized one thing -- having a floating timeline SINCE THE SILVER AGE is a real sunk cost. It's because it fails to account for the following things: Eras change a lot. The Golden Age (1938 – 1956), the Silver Age (1956 – 1970), the Bronze Age (1970 – 1985), and the Modern Age (1970 – 1985, social realism is rising) DEMAND different storytelling methods. That means the era that demanded for one-dimensional hate sinks. Another era will demand for complicated villains. Many times, backstories just don't match! People are destined to DIE SOMEDAY . A child in 1938 would probably be DEAD by now. I've seen some boomers die too soon before they're even 60. It made me go "HUH?" when I realized a family friend of ours died of cancer only in her 60s . Ther...