Wonder Woman: A Comic or a Book With Pictures?

I am not an art history or art major, nor do I pretend to be, but what I do know is what I like in comics, and that is more art, less text. To me, the artwork is what makes comics so that much more enjoyable than reading regular old books or even books with many pictures in them (ie. textbooks). And so is my long-winded lead up to my issue with the early Wonder Woman comics. For my tastes, there is simply far too much text crammed into each panel. Granted, this problem is really at its worst in the first comic, but even in later comics such as No. 3, there is text, in some form, taking up a third, even up to half of a panel. For example, in No 3., page 52, the top right panel (shown below) has spoken text from Lila as well as both spoken and thought text from Wonder Woman, and all that text takes up about half of the total space of the panel.

To me, this is a problem of Moulton not knowing when to let his pictures or text that he's written speak for themselves. I often found when reading Wonder Woman that the reader could get by either in the story, in a panel transition, or even in the panel itself without some of the text, especially involving the narrator but with characters as well. Staying on the panel above, does "Go On!" really need to be there? Or could Moulton have transitioned to the next panel where Lila continues her story without it? I think the answer is pretty clear. Another example of this, from the first comic, page 14, top-middle panel, the narrator says (writes), "Von Storm is furious at the way his plans are going". However,  the text of Von Storm, which begins with an emphatic "YOU FOOL!" and goes on to detail how his plans are going awry, makes the statement from the narrator obsolete.

The shame is that I really liked the bold colors and varied storylines of the comic, and I find that the excess text not only serves to muddy the pictures, but it takes away from the reading experience of these comics overall.