I’m not a Wizard basher. I find that many comic book people are. I like the magazine because it gives me enough news to understand what is happening in the broader comic book world. I also enjoy getting a spot check on my comic price–fair or unfair. I like to know what my comics are worth and what is hot right now. This is why I am concerned about the future of Wizard Magazine.
I have always understood Wizard to be the magazine of comics.  Somewhere down the line they became “the magazine of comics, entertainment, and pop culture.”
I don’t buy Wizard for pop culture. I buy Wizard for information about comics.Â
I don’t buy Wizard for entertainment information. I buy Wizard for comics.
Period.
So, where are the editors going? Obviously, they want to be “the magazine of comics, entertainment, and pop culture”. Slowly, they are proving this by their story selection and promos. The cover of Wizard 183 highlights “Lost” and “Galactica” (both good shows, but not comics). Then the head line at the top reads “The Best of 2006: Movie, DVD, Video Game, TV, Man of the Year” What about COMICS?Â
The more I dig into this idea, the more I see that Wizard is on a slippery slope to loosing its identity.
kastor417 says
I stopped reading it a while ago and i don’t miss it and its for the reasons you list here. i mean they were doing the best fights and there were top ten that had nothing to do with comics. though i don’t think thier price guide is fair they tend to pump up prices of books and most good comic shops won’t use thier price guide because of thier inflated prices.