It's that lack of artistic and literary discipline that has flooded the comic magazine industry. For many growing up, it was the Stan Lee "Woodstock & Jimi Hendrix at Monterey" era that ushered in a greater appreciation of the comic title. By this I mean the expectations of the reader learned from Lee, Kirby, and the like that a consistent and respectful approach to presenting an interesting story to the reader was more or less becoming a guarantee (like Jimi and '69 contributed to peace and music.)

Through the Reagan era, with emerging talent like Claremont, JB and Romita, this guarantee seemed to become a mainstay with an appreciation of the reader's interest in the continuity of titles like Amazing Spider-Man, Fantastic Four, Action and Detective maintaining robust growth for the industry into the turn of the millennium. It is at this point that the discipline, which had promised readers a consistent format for drawing them to the spinner rack, began to falter under the weight of newer inconsiderations (of newer talent) for others that had contributed before them, at some times thrashing the work of a former.

It's interesting to note that the main direct edition shops, in mine and neighboring towns, which flourished during the Clinton era, have shut down in the days since. An obvious sign that the comic industry has lost something by not keeping the reader's attention in mind concerning those "stories of yore."

JB did answer your question Stephen. Not that hard of an answer.

Andrew, you have to be fair to the series. Not every page can be non-stop action. This series has plenty and it's just starting.

Stephen, I'm not atempting to answer for JB, but don't you get inspiration by just seeing a character and thinking of all the wonderful history its creators have given them?