There's your problem. For all the praise his "trippy" reputation gets Grant Morrison, all I see when I look at him is a weird COBOL programmer so mired in legacy code he can't do anything new. The Silver Age worked because it built atop the Golden Age without being slavish to it. The reason comics stutter along now is because you've got people like Johns and Morrison who're still making comics Y2K compliant, all while EVERY OTHER MEDIA I THE WORLD is trying out new stuff.
Ask yourself, which is goofier and crackier: Final Crisis or Empowered?