Well, this being Byrne aside, Wizard is a rag for sure and the level of influence they have over what people read is nothing short of scary. The only thing scarier is their idea what passes for comics journalism. Ever notice how much of the magazine seems geared toward telling you what to like and making up your mind for you while making snarky comments about anything that doesn't fit in with that? Wonder if they could ever stop suckling Frank Millers teet for five little minutes. Apparently the accomplishments of guys like Bob Kane, Bill Finger, all the way up to Steve Englehart and Marshall Rogers don't matter. It's only the Bat-@$$hat Miller crapped out from his cynical psyche that counts now.
I really think that
Wizard's power and influence is highly overrated. I don't read the main
Wizard magazine (well, not in quite a few years), but I do regularly buy
Anime Insider (which is quite good). From what I've seen, it's actually become popular on the Internet to hate the main magazine. In fact, most of the people I see talking about the main magazine--on very different message boards--is negative. I don't see the
Wizard-bots that every is always talking about. Most people don't need a magazine to learn about their favorite creators--they can just go to their respective message boards.
I could see the magazine having a lot of power over casual fans, but not the hardcore crowd. I certainly don't think it's because of
Wizard or its fans that Byrne got fired.
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