I very much agree with Stephen E. Robinson's statement about appreciating the era when stories could be done without them carrying the onerous weight of continuity.

"One Hundred Years, Lost, Stolen, or Strayed" was never written out of continuity, ret-conned, rewritten, or similarly done away with. It just wasn't addressed again. Back then, what was good, stayed, and what was not, fell by the wayside.

Had there been a rousing cheer from the readers and calls to revisit that time in Superman's unremembered past when he was a tribal chieftain on some lost, backwater world in another dimension, I'm sure the creators would have gone back to it. As it was, the story presumably did not go over well, and was simply left in the dust of ongoing story construction as the comics line continued to plunge headlong into the future... (I'm actually picturing the story being eaten by Stephen King's Langoliers...)

No one felt they had to go back and "fix" it and "correct" the "mistakes" the creators of that story made. Those were good times... :-)

On the topic of tossing the fans a few bones every now and then, I rewatched the Ang Lee Hulk Saturday evening (Hey, I'm not ashamed to admit it!) and was struck once again by how weirdly "faithful" it was in some respects to the continuity of certain story arcs and yet how determined it was to go its own wonky way in other respects ("Krenzler?")

The film goes to great lengths to include the idea from Bill Mantlo's run that Bruce's rage was born of having an abusive, violently deranged father, and even includes scenes of him playing with stuffed toys that greatly resemble the mental constructs that accompanied the Hulk during his time at the Crossroads of Infinity. It was established in the comic that those characters were in fact based on childhood toys and models that Bruce had.

While the film avoids the "mutant menace" angle of the father's abuse, it does establish that the father has reason to believe Bruce is genetically different and is obsessively fixated upon that.

Of course, it also famously picks up on the "Dogs of War" idea from the Paul Jenkins era as well, although I do believe the idea of making one of them a poodle was entirely that of the filmmakers'.

X-men: First Class was a good watch, i thought!  There's a Wolverine cameo which made me laugh out loud...

For all superhero films, i normally go in to the cinema with one rule - disengage memory...expect nothing....desire entertainment....X-men: Origins Wolverine, X-men: First Class and the second X-men film all worked pretty well for me in that respect.

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Yes, whenever I go into a restaurant, I just expect to be FED. I don't expect to be given what I asked for, or that it should actually taste like what I asked for.