What has me in disarray with the older Action Comics and certain EC adventure comics of the day I believe is the fact that there's not much of a variety in their layouts or action scenes. In this era of superhero you can definitely tell the artists were pressed on deadlines as there's such a simple design that they all seem to follow for every scene; quick landscape shot that doesn't really show much of the background, portrait views of any talking character unless they're performing a movement, then they'll take up that whole panel. I guess that's my issue, there's just some terrible design choices in panel compositions and page layouts that were being repeated instead of corrected.
Not saying that all comics that follow this are bad as that simply is not true at all. Jack Kirby's Black Panther comic was a pretty fun read because his design sense of the compositions in his panels were much more well done, along with making the text more subservient to his art instead of vice versa.
Reading through Tin Tin's adventure in Nepal was very enjoyable, in spite of the peculiar type choice and format. I must be way too used to american comic bubbles and type, because whenever there were longer passages of type in Tin Tin I had to concentrate a little bit more otherwise I would glaze over it immediately. One thing that's for sure is a lot of comics really suffer when they have to be formatted to online reading.