The Spirit: Lorelei Rox and The Origin of the Spirit

The Origin of the Spirit is one of the shortest origin stories I've ever read. The Spirit is created within 2 pages, and as soon as he is created, he solves the crime that made him. Most origins stories focus on the heroes past, but The Spirit, at least from what we've read, seems to be doing the same duty, living the same life, that he had been before his "death." He just picks right up where he left off.
The Spirit himself wasn't really created in his origin story, at least not in the sense of Batman or Wolverine, whose creation seems to have a larger impact on their personality. Denny Colt seems to have always been completely obsessed with his job. So loosing his identity only enables him to better do his work. I guess this works in the film noir style. Bogart, or Nicholson (in Chinatown) never seemed to have anything else going on aside from their practice, but I think the different note between the noir in the film world and the noir in the comics, is that the crimes we were watching in classic noir film opened the lives of the detectives. They showed the vulnerabilities of the detectives through their desires, brought to light how unhappy the men were.
The Spirit isn't made more human/vulnerable through his cases, he is kept human through his limitations (being beat and near murdered in Loreli Rox) but its not the same.
Its still undeniable that the style is Film Noir. By looking at the first page of Lorelei Rox you see the light is motivated by tone. Commissioner Dolan is reading in the dark when The Spirit enters the room, but it establishes the feel for the comic. The action is all very blunt, taking place before us.
I think what throws me off the most about this comic, is how fast everything happens, I feel like its too episodic even for a publication with its page limitations and deadlines.