AJC Article: Wizard Keeps to Story

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution article on Heroes Con Vs. WizardWorld fiasco of several days ago is worth reading for how curious Wizard comes across in it. This is a pretty frothy feature article on Heroes Con and Wizard comes across as compulsively unable to tell the truth -- kind of like getting busted during a segment on The Dinah Shore Show. Since Heroes con organizer Shelton Drumm isn't holding a grudge, and it's not likely very many people in comics will, I'm not sure why Wizard's people don't just fess up to planning poorly and coming away slightly burned. I know it's hard in comics to ever admit to taking a false step because of the legion of high-verbal-SAT industry-watchers that will pass tut-tut judgment, but when something like this happens sticking to a discredited story, even obliquely, can become an issue of long-term credibility that could eventually drip down to their core fanbase. It's clear now to everybody Wizard planned the event and were prepared to dig in and then changed their minds and released the dates, and then decided for whatever reason to pass over releasing even that information for about a week after the decision was rumored to have been made inside the company. And this seems clear even if they don't want to say so.

If you put this together with pretty legit-sounding rumors that leaked out earlier this year that they were actually feuding with the cartoonist Frank Miller by directing the attention of their magazine elsewhere, a really odd corporate picture begins to develop -- a far cry from my perception of them when I worked in comics full-time as basically harmless worshippers of the bottom line with an unfortunate price guide addiction.
 
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