It has dawned on me that, in a month, I read a lot of magazines (namely Total Film, Empire, SFX, Dr Who, Stargate SG-1, Battlestar Galactica, National Geographic, Fortean Times, White Dwarf, Wargames Illustrated and assorted impulse purchases from Smiths or the market), but hands down my favourite read is Wizard: The Magazine of Comics, Entertainment and Pop Culture.I picked up my first copy at Tonbridge market - on the cheap magazine stall where I normally stock up on British reprints of Marvel and DC comics - and (not surprisingly, given my addictive personality) was hooked.
In a nutshell, this is the monthly 'must read' for geeks of all shade. It boasts the best coverage of the comic book industry (both storyline updates and creator interviews), but this is complemented by film and TV news and previews of 'toys' (e.g. action figures, statues, video games etc) - and all treated with grown-up respect.
Having started with the random issues I could pick up at the market, the magzine is now in my regular shipments from Paradox Comics in Poole - which means subsequent orders are always getting bigger! Wizard is the one-stop shop for all the forthcoming entertainment news a geek such as I could ever want (e.g. it was in the pages of Wizard that I first learnt of the Blade TV series, Stephen King's Dark Tower comic book and the forthcoming Preacher TV series).
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