I did happen to skim through the latest issue though, and liked Johanna’s page/piece on Halo and Sprocket and Alex Robinson’s new book. It was a cute/fun drawing of Johanna too! lol

Interesting that someone mentioned that they were turned off by the “anti-Moe” mentallity… I discovered Tweeny Witches through PiQ (maybe not typical, but I consider it moe).

I’m probably outside the target age, but I guess I’m a pretty immature adult & mostly only watch Cartoon Network, Comedy Central & some scifi shows…

I think the zine is packaged nicely… I have yet to find a alternative zine to replace World Art (Hi Fructose comes the closest, but still). I would like to see more depth along the lines of World Art (I could dream).

The price tag for the heft of the zine is a bit pricy, in my opinion.

I finally got a response from ADV/PIQ (and yes, they are still the same company but ADV is handling all of NTUSA’s former business).

This is a copy of the email they sent me;

“Hello [Redacted to protect my privacy]

Thank you for your email!

PiQ has cancelled your subscription. Refunds are not being processed at this time.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us!

Thank you and have a great day!

Kind Regards,

RJ Kato”

Well I can’t complain, at least they responded. Hopefully this means I’ll get some kind of refund in the future (but after what you told me about your experiences with cancelled magazines, I’m not going to hold my breath :) )

PS: I’m sure you’re article in the next issue of PiQ will help them clean up their act. You’re a very professional journalist/writer and the staff at PiQ.LLC could certainly learn from your example.

Thanks again for being here, lord knows the alternative-entertainment-culture needs people like you.

http://comics212.net/2008/03/17/piq-issue-1-post-mortem

Let me know what you think.

- Chris

I must admit I did find the article by Mr. Konno interesting. However, with space being limited as it is, I chucked it into the recycling bin since one interesting article doesn’t make a magazine.

But again, I’m outside their demographic.

[...] Draper Carlson asks what people think of PiQ magazine and gets a robust [...]

Best,

- Chris

I do hope you let us know what you find out when you get an answer. And thanks for reading the site!

That sucks. I’m sorry to hear that (seriously).

I agree that what we think of as “normal” is all a matter of experience.

I enjoy CWR and have been a reader of it on and off for a little while.

I admit I feel bad about dragging you into all this.
No hard feelings Kay? :)

Johanna;
Pardon my propensity to speculate beyond the available facts but, there would be no speculation if PiQ was forthcoming with refund information. Whether that information was a link to ADV on their homepage too where all refund requests for NTUSA should be made or even a Banner on their website stating that they are not offerintg refunds for NTUSA because its not their responsibility now that they are no longer a part of ADV.

But too ignore the issue entirely is to raise suspicion. It should be no surprise to anyone that someone is questioning where the money went or is.
If they’re(PiQ) not responsible for the refunds then they should publicly say so on their site in a manner that is clear and concise.
That would certainly help end any speculation.

I’ve perused other magazine sites for information on what is typical with the cancelation of a subscription or the termination of a magazine. Normally the subscriber is offered a refund for the value of whatever issues are left. This was not done in the case of NTUSA so it is unusual.

Finding out who is actually responsible for any refunds is also something of a chore in this case which is also unusual. This is far from the first magazine subscription I’ve ever had and I’ve seen magazines come and go (like Animag, Animerica, and Ronin Network) all of them issued me a prompt refund for the remainder of my subscription (which was considerably less than NTUSA) so why should this be different?

Like I said already, I’ll wait and see what ADV has to say about this.