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After more than 40 years of advising comic buyers, the magazine will ship its final issue in March.

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Source: CBGExtra

F+W Media announced today that it will be shutting down Comic Buyers Guide, the longest running English language print publication reporting on the comic book industry, according to Wikipedia. The press release cites "a lack of any comics worth buying" as the main reason for the action, confirming an opinion that has long been held by the internet.

"Comics suck," said one internet comic book fan, adding, "I quit reading them years ago, and now I just hang around on message boards and twitter and complain about whatever everyone else is complaining about."

The sentiment raises an important question: if no one on the internet reads comics, how does anyone know what to bitch about?

"I stopped picking up all big two comics after [Marvel's] Civil War," said a message board poster who wished to remain anonymous. "I found that bitching about comics on the internet is actually a far more rewarding experience than actually reading them. I still pick up occasional trades of The Walking Dead and Saga like any sane human being, but, for the most part, if I have to choose between spending my time actually reading a comic book and just reading a spoiler-filled press release and declaring Dan Slott to be worse than Hitler, I'm gonna go with the press release every time."

F+W Media estimates that the last decent comic to be published in North America was Runaways #8, released in November of 2005, though they admit that the final issue of Planetary might also qualify, since it wasn't released until 2008, despite being originally solicited in 1972, due to the comically absurd inability of artist John Cassaday to meet deadlines . "We basically feel we've been wasting our time and money for nearly ten years based on the vague hope that the industry would rebound from its creative slump," said a representative for the company. "We finally had to face facts and close up shop."

The final issue of Comic Buyers Guide will be the March 2013 issue.

Written or Contributed by Jude Terror

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"Comics suck," said one internet comic book fan, adding, "I quit reading them years ago, and now I just hang around on message boards and twitter and complain about whatever everyone else is complaining about."

"I stopped picking up all big two comics after [Marvel's] Civil War," said a message board poster who wished to remain anonymous. "I found that bitching about comics on the internet is actually a far more rewarding experience than actually reading them.

[Black_Orchid]

[fieldy snuts]

This doesn't bode well for Vertigo.

[Juan Cena]

I stopped caring about CBG about 25 years ago. There was less meaningful content in it than Wizard in its prime.