I don't disagree with you there, the titles have been extremely poorly writen for the past five years... and oddly enough those past five years have been a revived Silver Age.

Notice the thrend?

Thankfully those crappy writers have been fired and replaced with better ones (ok, two out of three...)

Sadly we still have the lame ass editor and Mark Waid...

Comics are like a Rorschach test; everyone has a different opinion on what they are and can be...