As an aside, I think modern comics out of the big two have lost a sense of scope as well.  Used to be that they were a way to explore, a way to see things that lived only in your imagination with stories that felt bigger than life.  As a kid, I tried to escape what I thought were mundane adult conversations to live, if only for a time, in the world of comic books.  Now?  It seems that all the characters do is talk.  The action has become secondary to the discussion about the action.  How very boring.

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Well said, Matt. That is one (of many) reasons I avoid current Marvel and DC. Stories have gotten both smaller and unneccesarily longer, as if they can't come up with the scope they used to, and are so starved for ideas that each idea must be stretched out to the maximum possible length. Jack Kirby did the Galactus story in three issues. It would probably take a year today...except for the fact that I don't think many of today's writers could come up with a story like that!

The first time in my life I ever actually tore a comic book in half and chucked it in the trash was several years ago when I picked up an issue of Justice League and found 22 pages of standing around talking! The JLA, a title designed to be THE superhero team book, including some of the greatest characters in comics, and there's no action!  

I hate how teams only fight like 1 villain these days and it takes them forever to gang up on that one person. It's like it's budget conscious you know like in cartoons where they'd beat up alot of "grunts" to fill up time because you can just instance them or idk.