1. In spite of typically spanning several months worth of issues, in terms of their internal chronology, most World-Shaking Events That Change Everything™ ostensibly take place in a day or less.
2. The “eternal present” conceit of most superhero comics indirectly creates a situation where, in order to imagine any sort of coherent timeline, we must presume that such events are happening constantly – on the order of every week, for particularly eventful comics.
Leaving aside any practical considerations, can you picture what it would be like to live like that?
Like, imagine getting home for dinner after a busy day of saving the world, and your kid is like “okay, mom, don’t be mad, but I’m a duck, Rachel is back from the dead again, and Bobby is twins now”, and you’re just like “huh”.
(Note: if you were not a mom with three kids prior to this post, assume for our purposes that it was an eventful day for you as well.)
shoutout to that time at work I told a college dude automatically “fantastic!” when he put his card in the chip reader correctly (bc I find complimenting customers on it makes them Do It Again Right The Next Time) and he returned way later saying “I’ve been chasing that high of hearing you call me fantastic for like a week now”
I love contrasting designs… Demons wearing white clothes……….. Angels wearing black clothes…………………… A demon so beautiful they are mistaken for an angel; an angel so monstrous they are mistaken for a demon.
