I am now picturing Grant Morrison as the Anti-Spiral. And that's terrible. He knows, but does not appaer to understand the culture he is writing about, which is part of the source for the general misgiving these characters exude.
I would argue that this is a problem that runs deep in comics, just just comic writers trying to ape Eastern media. The writers know comics, but they fail to understand how they work. As such, you get drek like Final Crisis that has all the look of a comic book, but none of the...spirit of one.