Kirr Mistwelder wrote:
Did comics in general hit a low point in the 1990s and then start to improve as we got closer to the 2000's?
I would personally say that they didn't hit a low point until sometime after 1995, and didn't really get better until well into the 00s (mid 90s to mid 00s).

That said, there were wretched comics before then (in the 90s, such as Maximum Carnage, but well before the 90s too) and there are terrible comics today. The 90s seem to get singled out as a paricularly bad time, but I don't think there was any more perponderance of bad comics then than in any other decade.
That's probably the fairest assessment of that era. I've just recently begun to dig through back issues and there is a lot of stuff from the 92-99 era that I actually like. I think the main reason that people do not fondly recall most 90s comics is because the publishers totally burned everyone out with multiple titles and foil, polybagged covers with trading cards. There was no emphasis on art and story in many cases--just sales gimmicks. This left the fans with a sense of dismay. I steered clear of the core titles in the 90s--those were the ones most affected by sales gimmicks (Spider-Man titles, X-Mens, Avengers, Fantastic Four and so on). The titles that were pretty much left alone are the ones I still like.