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Coming soon: the new Wizard website
from WizardUniverse.com
Is Wizard preparing to relaunch its web presence one more time? That’s the implication of a graphic recently added to the current, bare-bones site that once housed the digital version of Gareb Shamus’s publishing flagship (and once employed yours truly).
A banner atop the placeholder page now present at wizarduniverse.com reads:
Please pardon our appearance!
There’s a new WizardUniverse.com coming soon!
We’re relaunching with a New Look & New Attitude!
In the meantime, we are still open for business…enjoy!
Additional, awkwardly punctuated text directs visitors who are “looking for Wizard” to WizardWorld.com, where in addition to the usual assortment of news they will find updates on “the Wizard World tour of conventions, from 2010′s Toronto Comic Con, to our inaugural Anaheim Comic Con to next summer’s Wizard World Chicago Comic Con!”
Con War tea-leaf readers can make of the omission of the June 11-13 Philadelphia and October 7-10 Big Apple shows what they will.
6 Comments
Erik
December 14, 2009 at 2:13 pm
Why bother?
Kirk Warren
December 14, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Any bets they rename it Wizard’s Comic Book Newsarama Resources?
Alan Coil
December 14, 2009 at 8:17 pm
I know you have to report it, but who cares? Wizard and Shameless can go suck an egg.
TomerS
December 15, 2009 at 2:05 am
Hmm… That banner’s been there for over a month now.
TomerS
December 15, 2009 at 2:15 am
http://panelsonpages2009.forumotion.com/the-abyss-f2/the-wumb-is-dead-t1514-480.htm#64332
Dhnaka
January 8, 2010 at 7:48 am
I picked up the latest issue of Wizard and it’s easy to see why they are losing support. Firstly, the book is about 40 pages now (which they try to hide by not numbering the pages). Secondly, I don’t think they bother to QA the magazine before going to print (Mickey Rourke won the Oscar last year???) and thirdly, they just pander to whoever is being interviewed that month (“Joe Maduriera’s triumphant return to the medium (on Ultimates vol. 3) reinforced the turbulent story in mood and packed dynamic action that hit readers like a one-ton truck”.
I pick up the occasional issue in hopes they can turn it around but this is my last issue for sure