Wizard Downplays EiC Dismissal

To follow up on yesterday's story, Wizard Entertainment later Thursday morning posted this release, which lists the departure of Editor in Chief and original staffer Pat McCallum as just another corporate maneuver. In a way, McCallum leaving the company does make more sense in terms of a kind of broad corporate re-staffing that's going on at the company, although I don't know anyone that thinks any of the issues facing Wizard right now are broad, bland corporate ones as opposed to very specific, pernicious ones that need to be solved in the field, as it were.

I'm certain that if you take a quick look around the comics ghetto of the Internet you can read a lot of people kicking the rest of the release in the nuts: no one other than maybe a few folks at Wizard thinks the company had the grandly positive year portrayed, and the release itself fails to stay on point when describing all these new hires as a move to "strengthen" a company supposedly operating at record-setting levels in all departments. While I don't think the situation on its convention and magazine fronts is anywhere near hopeless, by failing to show in any way why McCallum leaving solves problems rather than creates them, Wizard comes that much closer to looking like they're floundering instead of reloading.

 
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