I don't see many similarities in the works of Moore and Millar. Millar has more in common with Ellis and Ennis I think, much more focused on pulling out the "cool moment", the snappy one-liner, than the more character-led Moore. I don't mean that as a criticism as I like most of what each of these writers do.

As for Millar's stylistic change from Superman Adventures, he's just reverted to his previous style, used on Red Razors, Big Dave, Swamp Thing etc. I don't recall him ever saying that he's reverted to a more financially profitable style.

If someone writes a story in which a drunk in a bar says Superman looks goofy in his costume, we can write it off as the inconsequential comments of a drunk in a bar. If, in another story, the Joker makes a snide remark about Robin's little green panties, we can chuckle, because that's what the Joker would do. If another tale gives us a cop wishing the "freaks in long underwear" wouldn't get involved, again, it stands on its own as a reasonable comment.

But if all three come from the same writer (and these are not specific quotes), and the same writer has done a hundred stories, and every story has some variant on this kind of derisive commentary -- if the readers find themselves expecting such a comment -- then a pathology emerges and it ceases to be about "context". It becomes a question of why a writer assigned to superhero adventures would feel the need to mock the most basic concept of the form, every time.

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This is what I find to be jaw-droppingly bizarre. Why mock the basic conceits of the business one gets a check from?

It's like saying, "I love to make and sell pumpkin pies, and I also love the taste of them so much, I could eat them forever. But, why does the crust have to look so gay? And why does the pumpkin filling have to be orange? And why does it have to be a pumpkin pie, anyway?".

Perhaps somewhat more on-topic: how do you all feel about Morrison's re-introduction of Batman's son by Talia?
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Kids are almost always a bad idea because they represent the passage of time rather starkly.

That said, it would be easy enough to ignore Batman's "son" -- his paternity is a revelation from a bad guy (and note that Talia even now refers to Batman by her father's honorific of "Detective"), after all. Also, Batman was drugged during the conception so it's possible that it never even happened, which I'd prefer as I'm not big on Batman having been raped.