I've been interested to see your thoughts on these books! I could not agree with you more about the update. I think she felt uncomfortable with the internal inconsistency more than with the accessibility thing, but man, comics have being doing the eternal present since forever (which Duane knows perfectly well, having moved in SF&F fandoms for many years). I mean, heck, Harry Potter is set in the very early 90s and its readers in the 2000s don't seem to have much of a problem.