Comments on: Wizard drops its comics price guide (and the pages it occupied)

By: Joe Glasnovich

Joe Glasnovich — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 19:33:42 +0000

Although a year late,I must say :”Good Riddance”.The Wizard pricings did perhaps irreparable damage to comics collecting with its contempt and underpricing of pre-80s comics.It was probably the major contributor in the near-collapse of the comic book market.Wizard was an enemy of the genuine lover of comics and those who appreciate them.

By: Mark Allen

Mark Allen — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:41:27 +0000

Price guides in magazines have been obsolete for years, due to the Internet. Heck, if I buy an Overstreet, it’s usually a year old, deeply discounted, and bought for reference, not values.

I also think it’s giving Wizard too much “credit” to blame them for gimmick covers, the comics bust, and the like. The mag was not that important.

Viva la CBG.

By: Jim Brown

Jim Brown — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 03:08:18 +0000

I liked the price guide and I will miss it. I will not renew my Wizard membership. They can kiss my a**!!!!!

By: Ron Nelson

Ron Nelson — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 13:34:11 +0000

Shamus/Wizard R.I.P. I will miss the WUMB but Panels on Pages will be a great replacement/additon for me.

By: Sean T. Collins

Sean T. Collins — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 04:39:18 +0000

Look for my official obit tomorrow morning.

By: Chris Ward

Chris Ward — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:51:29 +0000

RIP WUMB

By: Denim

Denim — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:28:03 +0000

Intelligent Moron, I also was a victim of the mighty WUMB ban, although mine was more of you expressed concerns that we call critizising. They ended up making my posts have to have Mod approval. Pretty rotton if you ask me. They also removed a banner from my signature that was promoting C2E2.

By: Intelligent Moron

Intelligent Moron — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 02:47:26 +0000

I don’t quite know if you all may remember this but we were the group of guys that held the “Funeral” for Wizard World Philly. We got a nice write up on Robot 6 but didn’t get much love afterward because there was really no way for us to say anything except on our own site Haveanerdgasm.com . We were permanently banned from WUMB with having our IP’s banned and a couple of other guys where banned for six months.

It comes no surprise to us that they have taken down the boards if that is really what they have done. I know Panelsonpages has a forum set up and so do we as well as CBR’s and I believe all of these are going to be the best to express real fans opinions. Because the reason we were banned was for only expressing the concerns that we had.

By: Jason Kerouac

Jason Kerouac — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:25:15 +0000

Here’s some more gasoline for the fire Gareb’s been working on…

http://panelsonpages.com/?p=14308

By: Martin Gray

Martin Gray — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:37:10 +0000

I want Amazing Heroes back!

By: David S

David S — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 00:14:46 +0000

It is an evolution affecting all forms of printed news. Wizard took a dark turn years ago. I really enjoy a lot of Comic Buyer’s Guide’s articles but most of the magazine was not current or not appealing. I have not read The Comics Journal in years but it was a little too pretentious for me and turned its nose up at mainstream comics too often for me.

I’d love to see a magazine that devotes more space to interviews with creators (writers, artists, editors) and have them break down the beats of their story. Why they made the choices they make and so on. Also interviews with publishers. Stuff that is at least ground breaking and more than the surface stuff we can find all over the net. Stop trying to be a current events source and be a hard hitting report not only on what’s hot but why things are hot, what makes a comic and so on.

Real journalism would do a lot to help promote comics. Som digging please.

By: Corey

Corey — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:19:56 +0000

Interesting evolution of comics print magazines going on right now when you look at this and the recently noticed page drop of the Comics Buyer’s Guide, and then compare that with the just-announced savvy evolution of The Comics Journal.