grainger said:

I never read the story, but I hate that Boba Fett escaped the Sarlaac only to fall in again (due to bad Jawa driving, as I understand it!). I thought that was hilariously bad. Already in stitches, I practically hit the floor when I found out it happened to him again after that in a later story. I suppose this is combines the problems of fan service and multiple authors working on one universe - all the characters end up with ludicrous life stories.

Ah, yes ... this. This is what you get when you retroactively make a story from the Marvel comics canon even when it conflicts with the "official" history you've already been running with for the past couple decades.

Crap like this is one of the reasons why the concept of an "official" canon for fictional universes has become anathema to me; the dignity of a universe gets sacrificed for the sake of making everything "real" and "true" and "relevant".

This is why I like how the Star Trek EU is handled more than the way the SW EU is handled. None of it is considered canon, so there's no inane effort put into making each and every story ever published in the past, present, and future part of the same continuity.