R.I.P. Wizard Magazine (1991-2011)
Frak! After 20 years, Wizard Magazine has decided to stop the presses, close up shop, and retreat (assumedly to it’s mother’s basement). And it had only just gotten over it’s braces, acne, and nocturnal emissions stage! Tis’ a crying shame. Though, as me and My Pal The Crook were just debating, it might have been a little too chock full of ads sometimes, it was still a magazine about comic books dammit. I used to get it at the comic store all the time as a kid, along with Simpsons comics, Mad Magazine, and the less-violent issues of Spawn that my dad would flip through first to see it they were appropriate, or whatever weird ass stuff I was reading back then.
I’m not gonna lie and say I’ve had a subscription recently, but I did always look forward to picking it up in the JFK Hudson News when I went on a flight. It was a good litmus test for the person sitting next to me on the plane. Depending on their reaction we could either nerd out over the life-altering awesomeness of Crisis On Infinite Earths, or I would fuck with their stuff when they went to the bathroom for giving me the stink eye. Nerd revenge y’all. Anyway, I guess Wizard will live on on the internet, but still. End of an era homies.
- Whole Milk
January 24th, 2011 at 8:35 pm
Damn, that is sad news. I probably haven’t bought a Wizard in like ten years, but still. I used to always grab a copy when I went to the comic shop, along with InQuest (which I had forgotten about and I just found out got the axe in 2007) and it was a pretty nerdgasmic combo. Plus, Wizard always had kick ass art of Lady Death and Vampirella’s rockin tits.
January 25th, 2011 at 12:15 am
Straight bougieness… I rarely make it over to the magazine isle these days, but whenever I do I usually pick up a Wizard, Toyfare, and some shit about holiday cookies that I will never make but they look so dank i’m like sheeiiit.
But I digress.
For shame.
I thought comics were doing good… but guess im wrong… just comic based movies…. any1 see Jonah Hex? hah.
January 25th, 2011 at 10:42 am
Isn’t Wizard moving towards convention promoting, like going against Comic-Con and PAX East/West? I heard they were creating a lot of bad blood. Could be why they closed the magazine down.
I haven’t read Wizard in forever. My favorite section was when they first started their How To Draw superheroes section. Damn, that Superman artist had a great tutorial for only having a couple of pages. Who knows, maybe they’ll have an iPad magazine app.