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The ways cartoons handle characters’ aging

March 18, 2022May 4, 2022 Anthony

A look at the multiple ways cartoons handle their characters’ aging, from floating timelines to only certain characters growing older.

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Floating timelines in comics

February 4, 2022March 10, 2022 Anthony

A look at floating timelines in comics, including Marvel and DC Comics’ continuity changes, and “FoxTrot”‘s changing Apple tech.

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DC Comics timelines, part 4: The New 52

November 3, 2013December 10, 2021 Anthony

It’s been over a year since I last looked at DC Comics’ timelines. While I wrote about Earth-2/the Golden Age, Earth-1/the Silver Age, and post-Crisis

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A new MacBook for “FoxTrot,” plus a history of Apple tech in the strip

June 9, 2013December 10, 2021 Anthony

Bill Amend’s comic strip “FoxTrot,” as part of keeping up with evolving technology (and the nature of the strip’s sliding timeline), usually shows the Fox

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DC Comics timelines, part 3: The Post-Crisis DCU

October 15, 2012December 10, 2021 Anthony

Last time, we focused on the Silver Age/Earth-1 DC Universe timeline. This time, we’ll look at the post-Crisis DCU’s timeline. Overall, while Earth-1’s compressed timeline

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DC Comics timelines, part 2: Silver Age/Earth-1

September 8, 2012December 10, 2021 Anthony

Last time, I discussed the pros and cons of DC Comics’ Golden Age/Earth-2 timeline, where continuity was treated as either something to be ignored (originally)

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DC Comics timelines, part 1: Golden Age/Earth-2

August 20, 2012December 10, 2021 Anthony

While there’ve been some minor modifications (such as the various Superman origin story re-tellings in the past decade alone), overall there’s four major timelines (or

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Sliding timelines in cartoons: “The Simpsons”

January 27, 2011December 10, 2021 Anthony

Continuing from the previous articles on sliding timelines in cartoons, I next come to an interesting example, “The Simpsons.” Interesting because: Despite being a sitcom

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Sliding timelines in cartoons: the Mad Mod and Soviet villains

January 11, 2011December 10, 2021 Anthony

On the heels of my sliding timeline entries on Superboy, “The Simpsons” and “FoxTrot,” let’s look at the effects of sliding timelines on characters who

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Sliding timelines in cartoons: Superboy

January 10, 2011February 4, 2022 Anthony

An updated version of this post is available here. DC Comics has made use of (various) sliding timelines over the years, all of them centrally

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