This isn't meant as a complaint, but more of an observation that I'm sure has been pointed out by many a comic book reader.   
 
I am in the process of reading Amazing Spider-Man #1-20 since I finally got the Marvel Masterworks stuff, and they are a really hard read.  They're not boring, and I understand the difference in the times, but I have come to the conclusion that my biggest bother is the fact that Stan Lee found it necessary to point out every time Spider-Man or the villains were about to do something.  It's almost as if he felt people aren't smart enough to pick up on what is happening from the art.  I find it kind of insulting, but more than anything, I find it extremely annoying.   
 
Maybe I'm alone in this, maybe I'm gonna take a lot of heat from this, but that's just how I feel.  Now, I do enjoy the issues and I enjoy Lee's writing (for what it's worth), they just take way too long to finish....  

@omertalvendetta said:

I have come to the conclusion that my biggest bother is the fact that Stan Lee found it necessary to point out every time Spider-Man or the villains were about to do something. It's almost as if he felt people aren't smart enough to pick up on what is happening from the art. I find it kind of insulting, but more than anything, I find it extremely annoying.

That's kinda just Stan Lee, to be honest.

I have the same problem trying to read Claremont's old X-Men stuff. 
 
It feels like a bad anime, where half the issue is just explaining what happened last time. The constant narrations become extremely jarring.

Yes, but you having to point this out about those older comics when its sort of obvious, I mean I already know this, so your pointing this out sort of feels like your insulting my intelligence I mean... annoying as well, and...  
 
Nah lol, just kidding. Comics try to be layered, and I look at it this way, in those times, they were mainly for kids with a deeper adult subtext, and these days they try and aim for an older audience. Oh actually I find a lot of modern writers having as many annoying writing tics... 

I gave up reading comics published before 1980 for that exact reason like six or seven years ago, there are a few series that I make exceptions for like old DC war comics (Star Spangled War Stories, Unknown Soldier, Sgt. Rock, etc), old kids comics (mostly Disney type stuff) and eventually I plan on reading some Gold Key/Dell stuff like Tarzan, Turok, Magnus, Solar, etc. Further you go back the harder they are to read and I'm sure as I get older that 1980 wall will move up to a 1990 wall cause even some of that stuff is getting harder to read, early Image comes to mind.

@omertalvendetta said:

I have come to the conclusion that my biggest bother is the fact that Stan Lee found it necessary to point out every time Spider-Man or the villains were about to do something. It's almost as if he felt people aren't smart enough to pick up on what is happening from the art. I find it kind of insulting, but more than anything, I find it extremely annoying.

That's kinda just Stan Lee, to be honest.

It's a different era when comics were read predominately by kids so I understand that things literally had to be spoon fed to be able to follow along.

@SC: What modern writers would you say have tics and what are they?  I'm honestly curious.