The medium is the message: At his blog, Christopher Butcher writes a thought-provoking preface to the new Previews Review, lamenting the sorry state of the comics industry but praising the amazing potential of the comics medium:

"The medium of comics art is truly astounding. It grows bigger and better every year, and every year the North American comics industry, specifically the Direct Market and the ‘mainstream’ superhero publishers in particular tend to slip further into obscurity, further into irrelevance, further into obsolescence, despite still dominating the North American medium."