Joel has grown noticeably, but is still recognizably the boy we met in The Aphanes.
This I'm very glad to hear. Five years is a long time, and I felt like the changes made sense to me, but I didn't know if other people would feel the continuity.
You could kind of tell that Marvel was trying to be realistic when portraying Jeanne-Marie/Aurora, but (a) information on MPD/DID was pretty sensationalised back then, and (b) it was still a bloody superhero comic and they weren't telling the sort of story that had time to deal with abuse and mental illness properly. So she's been everything from normal-but-repressed to completely schizophrenic. That opens up the sandbox considerably for me, of course, so I shouldn't complain. :-P
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Date: 2005-12-14 11:54 pm (UTC)This I'm very glad to hear. Five years is a long time, and I felt like the changes made sense to me, but I didn't know if other people would feel the continuity.
You could kind of tell that Marvel was trying to be realistic when portraying Jeanne-Marie/Aurora, but (a) information on MPD/DID was pretty sensationalised back then, and (b) it was still a bloody superhero comic and they weren't telling the sort of story that had time to deal with abuse and mental illness properly. So she's been everything from normal-but-repressed to completely schizophrenic. That opens up the sandbox considerably for me, of course, so I shouldn't complain. :-P