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guyjin

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Wizard magazine is dead
« on: February 09, 2011, 10:28:50 AM »
Could have sworn I posted this ages ago, but:

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2011/01/24/wizard-magazine-to-close-immediately/

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Wizard: The Guide To Comics, the magazine that covered the mainstream comics industry for twenty years and created all manner of careers in the process has closed, effective immediately. Or at least the print version has.

Almost all Wizard magazine staff have been laid off, and all freelance engagements cancelled.


Good riddance, I say. Wizard magazine was the avatar of everything that was wrong with comics in the 1990s.
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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #1 on: February 09, 2011, 10:30:23 AM »
Why does everyone on this f*cking site have to be so negative?
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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #2 on: February 09, 2011, 11:06:14 AM »
That's beneath contempt!!
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guyjin

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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #3 on: February 09, 2011, 11:40:29 AM »
Why does everyone on this f*cking site have to be so negative?

Compared to PC Engine, everything else sucks. :p
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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #4 on: February 09, 2011, 11:52:28 AM »
They perpetuated the New Mutants #86 is worth $100 thing in 1990 which basically began gouging in the comic book field. Cable is not that f*cking important imho.

Good riddance, I say. Wizard magazine was the avatar of everything that was wrong with comics in the 1990s.

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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #5 on: February 09, 2011, 11:54:04 AM »
Wizard was nothing but a shell of their former self, who realeased  nothing but half-assed ports to....  wait, what?


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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #6 on: February 09, 2011, 02:26:40 PM »
Wizard was awesome.  Fun to read, great pictures, and I still have a lot of the cards that came with the magazine.  Farewell, good friend.

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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #7 on: February 10, 2011, 02:08:15 AM »
When I was in middle school I though it was f*cking amazing. I haven't read it since then though.

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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #8 on: February 10, 2011, 05:48:27 AM »

[Mon 16:27] <BlueBMW> i wouldnt sell an unmolested duo hehe.  I molest the crap outta of em before they leave me

blueraven

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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #9 on: February 10, 2011, 10:22:15 AM »
 :lol:

That never gets old,  :clap:
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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #10 on: February 11, 2011, 01:01:15 AM »
I grew up with not only Wizard, but some of the knock offs like Hero Illustrated or Overstreet Fan. It's strange to see it go away, but the comic market took a permanent dive 16 years ago and isn't coming back.
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Re: Wizard magazine is dead
« Reply #11 on: February 12, 2011, 01:20:00 AM »
Oh, this was a magazine about comics? Not D&D? Too bad it wasn't an old-skool D&D magazine. That would have been worthwhile.

Thus, I cannot mourn the demise of Wizard, the comic book industry magazine.

My condolences to those who miss it. :)

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