'd suggest the best way to "fix" most of what's wrong with Marvel and DC would be to simply invert Hopkins' logic, and stop talking about the stuff that doesn't work any more (if it ever did). I took this approach to scripting FANTASTIC FOUR, and in five years on the job, never once made reference to Reed and Ben having fought in WW2. Didn't say they hadn't, simply didn't say they did.

Once upon a time, this was standard practice in superhero comics. I'd invite anyone with the access to scour DCs archives to find any reference to Krypton as a planet populated by "a race of supermen" -- all with the same powers Kal-El had -- once he reached the point that he was casually flying between star systems. When Stan and Jack brought back Captain America, in AVENGERS 4, they made no effort at all to explain the existance of a Captain America after the time they claimed he "disappeared". Wonder Woman's prop driven glass airplane became a jet without a scene showing the conversion. Etc. Etc. From major to minor, bits and pieces that no longer worked were simply ignored.

Didn't JB's Sue have a mullet at one point?

Mullets are not something that should ever be brought back.

It's cannibalism.  He ate the eyeball of an icon.  Can we not make some distinction here from what went before?

Here's a discussion challenge to those who do not have a problem with Squitch the ingested eyeball.  Is there any act of violence which would make you criticize the writer as going over a line?  In other words, when it comes to violence, do you have a line for Spider-Man?
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For some reason, I just remembered that Aquaman had his hand bitten off by Piranhas after a villain forced it into Piranha infested waters. 

Peter David was the writer then. He is connected to this OTHER storyline too.  Butis not the architect.

Important also to keep in mind, re: Aquaman, Peter David has gone on record many a time that his intent was to put the character back the way he found him upon leaving the book.  Unfortunately, he was removed from the book before he could do so, or even finish the then-current storyline on the book.