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Wizard Gives $100 Credit Back To Ex-Subscribers

Published Fri, 16 Dec 2011 07:00:22 -0600

Last updated Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:25:02 -0600

It's a story that Bleeding Cool first covered last year, when Wizard Magazine went to free digital – what about the subscribers, a number of whom had put down $100 or more in advance.

When initially challenged, Wizard told Bleeding Cool that people would be getting other magazines instead.

Then that didn't happen either.

Reports from within the company indicated that Wizard had decided they just weren't going to do anything.

And Gareb Shamus ran away from the cosplaying White Lando Calrissian when challenged, on camera. It didn't look good. Even if it did look funny.

Well, with Gareb Shamus dropped from the board of Wizard (although, you know, he still owns it), current executive chairman Mike Mathews told Heidi MacDonald at The Beat that, they intend to repair brand damage and will begin by offering a $100 gift certificate for any Wizard World ticket purchase to old subscribers still owed issues.

He also confirmed the current roster of Wizard World shows as New Orleans, Toronto, Philadelphia, Chicago, Mid-Ohio, Big Apple and Austin.

And their game plan, according to Mathews – and why the polarising figure of Gareb Shamus had to go – "we're trying to be a Switzerland of entertainment."

Nazi gold and cuckoo clocks it is then. I can also confirm that after more than a year of silence from Wizard, in the last couple of weeks I've received a number of calls from Mathews promising me that changes were on the way.

More to come?

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