Bendis has the Beast in All New Xmen with a big long blackboard trying to work out comic book continuity using advanced mathematics. He has scrawled "Age of Apocalypse", "Age of Ultron", and so on into a big scribbly timeline, surrounded by equations, and seems quite baffled.
We learn from a flashforward to 20 years into the future that it eventually drives him insane.
Bit of self-mockery, there.
