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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Klaus" data-source="post: 3964801" data-attributes="member: 607">Even counting stuff like that, you'd only need to advance the timeline once every 5 years, or so.Superman is now 39 (as inferred by the fact that his schoolmate Pete Ross could run for Vice-President), and Batman is about that age. Their heroic careers began about "11 years ago" (about age 28). That puts Dick Grayson at 24-26 (depending if he became Robin at 13-15), Jason Todd at 19-21 (he was about 5 years younger than Dick) and Tim is now 17 (he was 14 when he got the special permit to drive, back in his own series).The current Superman debuted in 1986, so he aged 11 years in 20 years of comics. Sure, that seems like 2:1 ratio. But most of that aging happened in the past 4-5 years. Advancing the timeline this fast means burning through the characters too fast to explore them fully.</blockquote>