4 Issues is still 88 pages of story. If I can tell the entire Csirac story in 4 Issues, a master story-teller like Furman can weave some absolute magic.
There's some of the problem. You could tell much more story in 88 pages than we'll actually get. MTMTE does it all the time. This series spends 110 pages on stories he could actually do in 22 or 44 (and would have done in the 90s).