On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:39:49 GMT, "Michael Wood" <no-one@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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wrote:
>Just a little aside.
>
>Has anyone else noticed that Wolvie is routinely drawn as a rather rough,
>weather-beaten 30-40 something?
>
>But given his immortality and healing factor, he should look like a 20
>something model - clean, unblemished skin. He should not show the
experience
>of his rough life on his face. In fact people should always be
>underestimating him because he looks so young.
Actually, by your rationale, Wolverine should be an undifferentiated,
one-celled zygote that keeps regenerating inside his 200-year-old
rotting corpse of a non-mutant mother.
What Wolvie's apparent physical age -- and I do agree that his
apparent age is the late-30's-to-late-40's (aka George Clooney-ish)
range -- is that his apparent age *stabilized* to that range at some
point. Suggests that at least wrt Wolverine's own genetics, that was
the age where the healing factor had to start taking into
consideration the rate of normal cellular decay due to aging.
Why? Because that's where John Byrne set his age when he drew
Wolverine with waaaaay too much hair.
Also, regarding his skin: you're assuming that Wolvie's face is
normally blemished in some way due to his age. It's not. He always
regenerates to scarless, which theoretically also includes acne scars.
IMO, he clearly is and always has been drawn to look, well, like Hugh
Jackman -- late 30's/early-40's-ish, great skin -- but a foot shorter
and with a LOT of body hair.
-- Rob
--
LORELAI: I am so done with plans. I am never, ever making one again.
It never works. I spend the day obsessing over why it didn't work
and what I could've done differently. I'm analyzing all my shortcomings
when all I really need to be doing is vowing to never, ever make a plan
ever again, which I'm doing now, having once again been the innocent
victim of my own stupid plans. God, I need some coffee.
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