Bleeding Cool is now reporting that the print edition of the dumb comics nerd magazine is finally dead after 20 years of monthly publication. I am so pleased to have finally lived to see the death of Wizard Magazine. They promoted everything that was awful about comic books—corporate mediocrity, female characters that exist solely to somehow show off both their tits and ass at the same time, promoting comics as objects of financial speculation—and they deserved to die years ago. All that Wizard did, in the end, was provide pathetic wank material for men who were old enough to legally buy pornography
Meanwhile, the only profitable arm of Wizard, the comics and fan culture conventions, is going to go public.
And nothing of value was lost.
Nothing more than a relic of the Dark Age of comics that started in the 1990’s.
Good riddence.
They did have some really great cover art over the years, though.
Strange that wizard coming into publication coincided with the end of my comic book collecting. I think I still have a few sealed Wizard #1’s in my mom’s attic. This means I’ve *not* been collecting books for about 20 years and this makes me feel old.
Oh yeah! I remember Wizard from when I was 12.
I thought it was boring and stupid then, too.
Next time, when you need to report the death of something that is both sexist and called “Wizard”, please make Lindy do it.
yeah, I was hot for Wizard for all of 9 months back in middle school. I quickly realized it sucked and that it represented everything about comics that sucked.
Hear! Hear!