I’ve been meaning to do this for awhile but completely forgot. As you can see, my gig at Wizard is dead. My last column was published in last December (also my last post in the blog) and I got into this bizarre whirlpool where they either neglected my posts for technical reasons or I just couldn’t get myself into doing it anymore. When I was finally about to get back on track in February, all freelance columns/round-ups were canceled due to major cutbacks, firings and changes at Wizard.
About a year ago I was approached by one of the other freelancers and a fellow WUMBer to be part in our own new project, completely unrelated to Wizard or the future changes (we didn’t know about at the time). We started pitching ideas and eventually set our goals on the first Friday of March as the launching date of Panels on Pages (or PoP! in short). By coincidence, about a week earlier was when our editor informed us about the cancellation of our columns. Well, it gave us more time to work on our new baby. The Saturday prior to the launch I had a free afternoon and used it to build our new forums. Just a little seven months later and we continue to grow, both the website and the forums.
In the meantime, Wizard seems to go down while chewing more that it can. My former editor Jim Gibbons was let go in late August and looks like anyone I knew at Wizard or cared about is gone. The website is barely active and merely two days ago was replaced by a new pop culture website, while the recent Wizard Universe now only offers subscriptions to the various Wizard magazines (which are rumored to be taken down from the shelves by the end of the year). I no longer visit WUMB and ditched my Moderator position. And the hatred for Gareb Shamus and his lackeys has been growing in the passing week all due to their recent actions in the conventions department.
But let’s get back to business; I’m not sure what to do with this blog. I don’t mind keeping it around, but all my good ideas are going to PoP! We’ll see.
-T.
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