Is the amount of Thrill Power in comics declining?

For instance, FINAL CRISIS might have been thrill-powered, but its storytelling style kinda robbed the works of its Thrill Power.

Final Crisis is the very antithesis of thrill power. You are right on the storytelling style, but worse is its tiresome continuity rockism. And general lack of thrill power.

Legion of 3 Worlds was pretty thrill-powered, I thought! Yeah, there's too much cumbersome talky talky, but there's a lot of forward momentum in it. Maybe there's an, um, American-style thrill power that's different from the UK version? The Chaykin-Miller brutalist school, perhaps, rather than the goofball-psychedelic-kitchen-sink British style of Mills, Morrison etc.

I must admit, I didn't get a lot of pleasure out of reading Final Crisis (at least in the middle issues 4-6) -- by design its meant to feel doomy and oppressive. So I don't think thrill power's the appropriate measure here...

continuity rockism ftw!

I have to admit, I'd been away long enough to forget all about continuity rockism.

And it's weird that Morrison went that route in making an ur-text for the DCU, since previously, he'd done a great job just dealing with the essential components of the characters (I'm thinking his JLA and X-MEN runs here, but prolly DOOM PATROL as well, maybe) and running with that.

the powar has gone to his head

absolute thrill power corrupts absolutely