Wizard Mag's Got An Itchy Trigger Finger

[DWEarhart]

Read it here (http://www.comicbookresources.com/news/newsitem.cgi?id=9035) on the website.

Wow. I want to be a frickin' fly on the wall at Wizard right now. I can see the cause and effects being layed out in this piece. Wizard employees taking off for Marvel and DC, which is understandable.

But, the low convention attendance, hyperactive news on the internet, just so many things.

Wow.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Maybe this means they're rethinking their approach to covering comics news. WIZARD is in bad need of a complete overhaul to save themselves. Maybe this is the start of that.

Or, it could be that the company is failing and trying to cut costs everywhere it can. But, then, we've heard that in the past about WIZARD, too.

Hey, WIZARD -- I only live about a half hour away from Congers. I have family in town there. Looking for a new editor-in-chief? Drop me a line! ;-)

-Augie

[pmpknface]

Augie, don't put yourself in the line on fire like that! ;)

Yeah, I HOPE it means we'll see better things from them in the future.

[DWEarhart]

I dropped them after the hype for Identity Crisis, but collecting since single digits. It used to be something I looked forward to every month, but I kept collecting because it became routine and not because I liked it anymore.

Not even covers, art, columns, nothing could make me go back, especially after the net exploded.

They've lost their identity, and seem bewildered.

[Augie De Blieck Jr.]

Just want to get this prediction out there:

The person they hire for this position will have been with WIZARD for eight years already. Barring that, they'll have exactly eight years of experience with pop culture magazines.

-Augie

[pmpknface]

...and thus, the actual changes we see as fans will be minimal.

[pmpknface]

Figured I'd throw this out there...

http://icv2.com/articles/home/11767.html

Felton Leaves Wizard
Silver Doesn't

December 13, 2007

Wizard Entertainment founder and CEO Gareb Shamus has confirmed to ICv2 that associate publisher Rob Felton, who was promoted to that position in March of 2006, left the company on Monday. He will be "replaced in some capacity," according to Shamus. But Shamus denied that publisher Jim Silver, who was hired at the same time as Felton was elevated (see "Wizard Brings in a Publisher"), and who'd also been reported to be leaving the company, was going anywhere. "Jim's still with us;...his role is the same as it has been," Shamus told us. "Jim will continue to work with us."

[Silver Knight]

I finnally after a long time of fumbling started reading Wizard over the summer and got my subscirbtion I find it fascinating it takes me a week to fully analize a issue, and the I get two in rapid succision it'll take me weeks to analize every detail. Its mad eof pure awsome for me.

[pmpknface]

Q: Where do you live?

Q2: What is in there that you can't get over the internet?

[Silver Knight]

Q: Where do you live?

Q2: What is in there that you can't get over the internet?

Central TX

Stuff I cant find on their, because I dont have enternity to search for every thing online, plus ity gives me insigh on things that I normal dont think about.