Jeff, I would say that DC is the biggest offender, what with writing an “in-universe” reboot every few years. But they both (all) have alternate realities and rampant retcons.

But it’s not ‘let’s get the guy who used to write it take it back to how he would have wrote it then’.
It’s beyond continuity porn, this continuity prostitution.

Do any of you guys really get confused about whether stuff happened to the main or ultimate/elseworld version?

That’s not why this gets mocked.
It gets mocked because it exists at all.

I’m confused. I thought it was going to mock fans complaints about late books, but then started talking about Claremont’s X-Men Forever.

No, it’s about them being behind*, and only doing a half-arsed joke instead.
Hence, the joke having nothing to do with anything.

*whether Brandon and Sean were or not is almost besides the point

Also:

I’d like to mention Jeff Loeb… Since someone will eventually.

I think there’s a chance that Claremont might be remembering how he did it back then.

Having an entire series based on what direction a series could have taken if the same writer kept going with it has sort of a niche audience, where even the big fans of the era will have to rack their brains to remember the status of the whole X-Men universe at the time.

It’s a ‘meta-commentary’ – apparently the one thing a comic fan can’t handle.
They are talking about life getting in the way, and then rip on x-men forever for the cheap laugh, whilst commenting that it’s half-arsed.

@Ethan: I don’t think Marvel’s timeline’s hard to follow – you just continually update the Marvel universe as being around 10-15 years old, and reframe the wars appropriately – except for Captain America. And Nick Fury. And Magneto, who went through some de/re-aging a while back. And Dr. Strange, who might be like 100 if I understand his entry on Marvel.com. Oh, and ignore everything Chris Claremont writes, because that’s pretty much its own canon – he references nothing going on around him, and nobody references anything he’s written since…well, since about 1992 or whenever “X-Men Forever” takes place…or doesn’t, since…is that set in current times, or….

Crap. Okay, Ethan, looks like the Marvel Universe can be a little slippery, too.

Oh, right, the comic! Well done, guys, always happy to see a new installment.

Either that or Claremont has some photos of Quesada that he’s been holding on to for just this sort of thing. Maybe the same photos that are allowing the Clone Saga to be retold?

Sovereign Seven

That’s right – I’m saying Chris Claremont is magic. SOMEBODY PLEASE PROVE ME WRONG.

I mean, I get the joke in Comic Critics, and it’s quite funny, but I don’t get the point of X-Men Forever being published.