After 28 years, the magazine that spawned Bat Boy, kept Elvis alive, and was once the best place to go to see pre-Photoshop jimmied pictures is closing it’s doors next month.
When I was little, every time my mom would take me to the supermarket, I’d get a copy of the latest “trash rag” as she called it (until it skyrocketed past 75¢ an issue). The stories were fascinating: farmer kills 7 ft. grasshopper, merman caught in South Pacific, and a winged-dwarf man, popobara, sodomizes men in their sleep in Mexico.
Since the introduction of computers, however, it made it easier than ever to make really badly Photoshopped images to go along with their incredible stories. Ease, which in my opinion, led to lack of quality which I think carried over into their stories.
So, it is without a bang that the world bids farewell to the Weekly World News. You will always be held fondly in our collective memory, you crazy little magazine, you! May your stories live on on the internet, here.
ps:
2008 BUCHAREST, Romania — Vampires realize that the blood of tuna fish suits their macabre nutritional requirements as effectively as human blood. The undead begin lurking near the shores of the Black Sea, sucking fish dry and discreetly throwing their bodies into the water.
2009 BUCHAREST, Romania — An unexpected side effect of the new vampiric diet occurs when the discarded fish themselves return to life as vampires. The fishing industry comes to an abrupt halt while authorities try to capture and kill the thousands of bloodthirsty ‘nosferatuna.’
Awesome.
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