Comments on: Wizard Magazine Closes Abruptly

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 30 Jul 2012 03:30:32 +0000

Goodbye and good riddance!

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Sat, 15 Oct 2011 01:54:00 +0000

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Tue, 03 May 2011 12:16:41 +0000

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By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 19:19:51 +0000

Interesting. I had one more issue left in the subscription #236. The mag has really really fallen apart when it started its new format a year ago. Absolute junk, I had tried canceling it 2 or 3 times, but they never did. I guess I should have expected it. I don’t expect anyone to get a refund on their missing issues.

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Wed, 16 Feb 2011 03:06:01 +0000

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By: KC Mourns the Passing of … » Comics Worth Reading

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Westfield Comics Blog » KC COLUMN: THINGS THAT ARE GONE — Mon, 31 Jan 2011 19:42:11 +0000

[...] be summed up by the subject of the email I sent to my wife Johanna (who’s provided an excellent rundown of recent Wizard activities at ComicsWorthReading.com) on the day the news broke: The Other Shoe [...]

By: Jason

Jason — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 18:10:58 +0000

In the issue which is now their second to last issue, only 29 pages out of 79 were really devoted to comics with the rest being about comic culture movies, TV, toys and video games. Plus, I really agree with Grant in that the style of writing made me wonder why anyone over 15 yr old would be reading this…made me think I was too old for their publication. Anyway moot point now!

By: Anthony

Anthony — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:21:11 +0000

I used to read Wizard all the time back in the 90s, but heavier Internet usage, changing reading tastes, money issues and growing tired of Wizard’s sophomoric nature made me drop it. I haven’t bought an issue of “Wizard” in years, so guess not sorry to see it go.

Wonder why they didn’t move to the Internet years ago, instead of ceding it to Newsarama and Comic Book Resources…

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 01:08:40 +0000

*groan* we JUST ORDERED that! it was the closest thing i could find to replace realms of fantasy. I give up! I wish they would change our state standards regarding periodicals. This is insane! Half of the mags I ordered last year were cancelled this year and now it looks like the same thing is happening with all the replacements I spent hours digging up and reviewing.

By: Grant

Grant — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:05:11 +0000

I never cared for Wizard’s content. It was really juvenile stuff, even for a comic book fan. Their news was always several months old.

I’d be more upset if they were canceling Comic Buyers Guide. They actually have some decent content. That and Maggie Thompson is one of my heroes, along with Gary Carter from the now defunct Comic Book Marketplace and the gang at Two Morrows.

By: Johanna

Johanna — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 23:35:35 +0000

Comics Journal is yearly, although it remains to be seen how long that plan will last. There are a couple of startups who have tried to be “the new Wizard”, but they put out an issue or two and then disappear. Didn’t CBG go monthly?

By: Jason Green

Jason Green — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:03:47 +0000

“That leaves the only major print publication dedicated to current comics as Comics Buyerâ��s Guide.”

What about Comic Shop News? I read it every week, and yeah, it’s mostly PR puff pieces, but it’s a nice way to learn about new books and get a ton of publishing news without having to dig through the billions of posts on Newsarama or CBR.

http://csnsider.com/

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 21:16:24 +0000

I guess I can’t be surprised by their decision. The numbers were abyssmally low, just looking at the DM orders. Given the collapse of the magazine industry the last couple years, it doesn’t surprise me that those numbers probably were in the tank, too.

I don’t think Comics Journal is monthly anymore, and CBG is weekly. Neither carry a price guide. It blows my mind that noone has figured out a way to make a monthly, comics-based, print magazine viable and successful. How many people have said “I stopped reading Wizard for such-and-such a reason?” Tons. And yet, noone’s found a way to capitalize on that need. Crazy.