I respect Busiek, but the man's a fossil. It was ok for comic book characters to talk like that 20 years ago, but dialogue has evolved since then. The whole 'talk what your thinking or about to do' style has gone the way of the dinosaur. Good writers leave some storytelling to the artist to portay thoughts, emotions and action and even collaborate with them to make a good comic book. Busiek has Claremont syndrome and he's just sometimes painful to read.
