The Future without a Past
Most of the popular comics now are still geared towards children.
Comics, like films, have a primary goal to entertain, whether they are newspaper strips or horror comics. Unfortunately, the comics medium has mostly been associated with childish leisure, and is not yet fully appreciated as an important medium in which art and literature can combine to result in a visual and literary experience as evocative as any good book or film, especially when not hindered by any sort of censorship or comics code.
The lack of influence of older comics left a void.