It could look a lot better too....

Everybody sits down and, at the point of a sword if needs be, comes to an agreement on which were the epochs that were best for the characters/titles. Those characters/titles are then RESET to those points -- whether or not they are "contemporary". In other words, if the best time for Spider-Man was when he was in High School, but the best time for the X-Men was after they "graduated", those are the points the books go back to, and they BECOME contemporary. AND they are set in present day.

There would be a lot of exploding fanboy heads over something like this, but pandering to the fanboys is what got us all in this mess to begin with.

When I was a kid, my friends and I would have those conversations that most kids who are comic book fans/geeks would have that begin with some iteration of "Wouldn't it be cool if..?"

"Wouldn't it be cool if Wolverine joined the Avengers?"

"Wouldn't it be cool if Magneto was in the X-Men?"

"Wouldn't it be cool if Spider-Man made his own webbing like a real spider?"

And then would come the explanation that began with "That would never happen because..."  As in, "Wolverine would never join the Avengers because his allegiance is to the X-Men...they're the only family he knows besides the Hudsons and he's not really a joiner."

But what happened at some point is, those kids who would have all of those fanfic fantasies that real fans would shout down came to have power over the direction of the characters.  So that indeed Wolverine not only joined the Avengers, he's now the "good" guy while that stupid, sucky Cyclops is the asshole.

How and when did this unfortunate turn of events occur?  There is a lack of maturity and responsibility in comics today.

They like to do company wide events.  How about this one--The Splash Page of every single title is Uatu explaining that the last 26 years have been an ongoing What If? storyline triggered by (insert whatever here).  Our heroes (and creators) are safe and sound where they were when we last left off.  Now we are going to continue their stories.