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I don't quite have the spoons at the moment for a real effort-post, but you can lay a lot of Garth Ennis's later career arc on Wizard. He was never exactly going to be a calm, middle-of-the-road writer, to go by his earlier projects (i.e. most of his Judge Dredd work), but Preacher really got Wizard's attention. Every month, that magazine took at least a couple of pages to remind the reader that it thought Preacher was dope, and the crazier the book got, the more fevered Wizard's praise became. I'm convinced that, to some extent, that coverage shaped the comic in turn. Subsequently, every so often, Ennis tries and/or is encouraged to go back to that level of deliberately inflammatory shock humor. The Boys, famously, was initially pitched to readers as Ennis trying to "out-Preacher Preacher"; you can also point to more recent work like Jimmy's Bastards and Marjorie Finnegan, Temporal Criminal as Ennis going back to that well. I'm not sure where Ennis or Preacher would be without that monthly rave from WIzard, in the days when it was the comics tastemaker, but it always strikes me as one of the magazine's primary impacts on comics. It's basically the '90s and early '00s in a nutshell.
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