Sean Collins gets into the "what comics need now" game with a reasonable idea: real interviews. His comparison is a little off since he compares the comic interviews with "real news" programs instead of other entertainment interview settings. Even "The Today Show" had a series of interviews devoted to "The Cat In The Hat" movie coming out, so other mediums are not immune to this crap. But there could certainly be a higher level of discourse than seems to be popular now. (Although some days I think I could settle for a level of discourse that simply includes a spellchecker before articles get posted.)

But comics do lack the more analytical level of discussion that does exist for movies and books and television. Steven Grant was making a similar point in column about reviewers and critics. Not much seemed to come out of that discussion other than a realization that many people overestimate the weight of the writing currently available online.

But I keep coming back to this question - is there enough of a market to support this kind of work? Sure, it can be a bit of a catch-22, since higher quality infrastructure would help expand the market. So what needs to occur to make this happen? Or are there other basic structures to put in place first?