And I seriously doubt anyone who has read the current work and such classics as Moore's WATCHMEN, MIRACLEMAN, SWAMP THING, V FOR VENDETTA, or Miller's BATMAN YEAR ONE and DAREDEVIL: BORN AGAIN, Goodwin/Simonson MANHUNTER, Wein/Wrightson SWAMP THING, Englehart/Rogers DETECTIVE, or O'Neil/Adams BATMAN and DETECTIVE, would see the more recent work as the same level of quality.
I've read each one of those comics, yet I can honestly say that I'm constantly amazed by new stuff. Last week I discovered The Umbrella Academy, a new twist on the superteam concept, a brilliant book that I'm guessing you'd dismiss at first sight for being "cynical".
I used to feel the same way you do about modern comics. When I was 12. Superman went electric and it seemed like everything was pointless shit. I was ready to quit comics and get a life, but then I accidentally discovered Mike Allred's Madman and WHOA, I realized there was fantastic stuff out there, I just wasn't looking in the right place.
The biggest advantage modern comics have over every other previous era, is precisely the fact that all those eras are avaliable for new creators to draw from. They can take the best of each period and leave behind the bad, like Allred did Madman or Morrison is doing in ASS. Of course most people don't know how to take advantage of this, but the few that do make it worth it.
