Molnek, our blogger friend seems to admit that with this: “Even though the appearance of both the original X-Men and the Red Skull didn’t end up in Marvel NOW!’s now through similar methods…”

However, I still don’t really get what’s so striking about this. In the comics I read, old characters are constantly re-emerging from the past/death/the body of an imaginary talking bird.

There’s no reason for it to connect. Skull’s return isn’t time travel and Graeme very obviously thinks it is. It’s the entire premise of his post, and if he doesn’t think Skull’s return is time travel his post otherwise makes no sense.

Let’s see if this comment actually gets posted, the majority of mine never are.

I’m actually going to stand up for Graeme here.
The return of Red Skull is a sort of time travel. Especially from that character’s perspective. This is a clone of a personality that was never really awakened until 70 odd years after its birth.
The mind of Red Skull itself is going over a VERY large gap, and would have no recollection of ANY of the past deeds that Herr Schmidt has done for the past 50 odd years in comics.

That, from the character’s perspective, is time travel.

Also, is anyone else glad that Jono is back in Legacy 2?

Once again Graeme blows it. Did he actually read these comics?

“Basically, Remender has given him a decades-long time gap similar to the one built in to Captain America’s origin story – there’s nothing more to it than that.”

Actually, the old Red Skull already had that parallel with Cap. He was trapped under some rubble with some experimental super-gas or something between WWII and the modern age.

I’m definitely seeing a nap pattern here. Marvel NAP!