timelines

(This was originally published on December 24, 2010)

I just realized that the current (Retro) Legion is something that we've seldom seen in science fiction. Bear with me, and we'll get to it in a moment.

In SF we're used to the idea of divergent timelines: two or more universes that share the same past, but have different futures. To borrow Doc Brown's graph from the Back to the Future movies, divergent timelines look like this:

(This was originally published Sept 15, 2009)  (Spoiler: It wasn't the last time....)