Making fun of Wizard is like complaining that Maxim doesn’t spend enough time discussing Margaret Atwood. It’s like pointing out that the films of Michael Bay don’t spend enough time on quiet character development. It’s like walking into a pornography store that’s plastered its windows with semi-naked women and posters with titles like School Bitches in Heat and then being offended at the videos inside.
It is not only beating a dead horse, it is continuing to beat the horse’s coffin during the funeral, digging up the horse two weeks later and setting fire to it, and then shooting the ashes out of a howitzer.
Wizard is a pretty crap magazine that exists to deliver hype for superhero comics for an adolescent (whether in body or mind) male audience. It sucks that it’s the most prominent and widely-read publication devoted to comics, but blame the market for that. Can we stop pointing out how sucky it is? It’s pretty obvious to anyone who cares to look.