Interview with Marvel talent scout C.B. Cebulski. Interesting problems regarding the state of the industry:

CEBULSKI The way that we look at it now is that the production cycle of comics has changed. It used to be Romita, Kirby, Ditko, all those original guys. Comics came out monthly. They were fast enough. It was a job for them. It wasn't really art. They were getting a paycheck.

MINTZ
And they had wives helping them.

CEBULSKI
Yes. And they would put out monthly books. It was on the newsstand. Now what's changed is, what sells a comic is not just the character, but it's the writer and the artist. The retailers are getting the Previews, which is three months in advance. They're able to place their orders on who wrote it, who drew it, what the storyline is. And because of that, because of the Image guys, basically, in the 90s, there's such a focus on the art and the artist, that they start taking more time with their art. So there's only a dozen guys, six guys from Marvel that I know of, that can do a monthly book. Everyone else, it takes them six to eight weeks to draw one comic book.

if they're taking so much time with their art cause the focus is on the art and the artist, why does it look like ass most of the time?

give them less time to mess it up and mebbe it'll look decent.