TITLE:INTRODUCTION TO THE MAGS MULTI REVIEW - CHRONICLE OF AN ABORT PALETTE:0223 088a 0978 09bc 3BEWARE: 2This article and all the ones of this section, are expressively dedicated to mag 2editors. If you aren't an editor of any scene mag (that's unlikely, I know, but 2it might always happen), you are not supposed to read what follows. 2Simply because it's going to be rather boring. 2Continue at your peril. Beware of dogs. 3 THE SCENARIUM QUICK MAGS ROUND-UP 3 Introduction 2 By Macno Who reads reviews of diskmags in diskmags? As surely a 2MEDIASCENE1 opinion pool would reveal and 2ROM1 conferm: NOBODY. Nobody except, obviously, the editors of the mags reviewed. Being a deeply masochistic and hypocrite publication, Scenarium can dare with something more than the usual short-mag-reviews-that-only-editors-read. This issue of Scenarium can in fact boast a disturbingly massive and complete set of long-mag-multi-reviews-that-only editors-read. The idea was to make a full review of the latest issues of ALL the most important scene mags, with also the contribution and the opinions of various writers and editors. Everything intended to be entertaining. Too late I realized that this idea was far from being original and the result not always funny. After few of these time taking reviews, I got bored and I decided that Abnormalia 5 was already too fat. It was too late, of course, I already asked to various writers and editors to write their own comments about the scene mags. 2"It would be criminal to leave unpublished a similar bunch of external 2contributions"1, I thought wittily, so I decided to use everything, also comments for mags too old to be reviewed. This is not ROM, after all, where articles older than 2 weeks are trashcanned. In other words you are going to be compelled to read an aborted complete round-up of all the most known mags around with special comments of some of their same editors. After all it can be interesting for 2Wolfman1, for example, to read what 2Lord 2Helmet1 thinks about 2Upstream1, or for 2Colorbird1 to take note of what 2Zinkfloid1 (I can't call him Uyanik, it's over me) thinks of 2Propaganda1 now. Yes, I know, the rest of the world won't care a carrot, but the rest of the world won't write the reviews of Abnormalia 5. Here it is, in fact, this section is written expressively for mag editors, who incidentally are often mags reviewers. It's intended to be their paradise on scene, where they can finally discover what the other editors think about them, how many So-What? articles they have scored, what's the spandimerda degree of their mag, what is scenologically relevant about their work and so on. What can you ask more, my dear editor? Here it is a full Scenarium section for your exclusive pleasure, if you are lucky you can read about your mag: - 2A general introduction-review1. The classical critic that can tell everything or nothing at all. Written by me, Macno. - 2The So-What? articles incidence1 of your latest issue. All your So-What? attempts seeked and underlined. Nothing can escape the So-What? hungry hunter (Always me, Macno) - 2The Spandimerda power1 and future of your child. Read what is spandimerda in your mag and what has still to be improved in order to conquer an award. Research and comment obviously made by your spandimerda Marcio. - 2The Golden Pearls1 you have achieved. I have looked for those Pearls that give a sense to life and a good laugh to readers. - 2THE RIPPER's literary critic1. The master of the critics explains the secrets of mags and writers. - 2EL LOCO's Awakenings1. The new spandimerda star of the scene shouts his witty awakenings to the sleeping scene main editors. - 2ZINKFLOID's direct thoughts1 about your mag. The true opinion of Zinkfloid himself, not always objective, as he admits, but objectivity is boring. - 2The Ultimate quotes from BLITTER1. Few sentences to define a mag, here's how Blitter of The Jungle has decided to partecipate to the multi-review. - 2LORD HELMET's true opinions1. It's not common to read what Lord thinks about other mags. I have written millions of articles for RAW to obtain some comments from him. Grammar mistakes included. - 2MOP's comment1. A sage, sober and competent comment by Mr.ROM himself, the next big priest of the scene. - 2NIMROD's definition1. Essential and direct comments from an indipendent journalist and scenologist. - 2POSDNUOS' charts concerns1. The editor of The Charts unveils the potentialities and the chart-power of each mag. - Oepir Risti and 42 were lucky enough to have 2ROKDAZONE1's very own additional comment. He was too lazy to understand that he had to comment every mag. Before leaving you, dear editor, to the estatic reading that will drive you to nirvana or to suicide, alternatively, let me publish how some of the partecipants have wanted to introduce and comment their reviewing work. All in Scenarium style, more or less. 3THE RIPPER: We can't deny that while we are watching a good demo a stream of sensations starts to pervade our body, different feelings come across our soul and a lot of various thoughts pop over our minds. The very same feelings we have when we look, better for the first time, at Michelangelo's Cappella Sistina or simply while we're reading Dante's Commedia or when we're listening to a Wagner's masterpiece. What does it mean? What can 2Leonardo1 and 2Azatoth1, 2Shakespeare1 and 2Romeo Knight1, 2Goethe1 and 2Chaos have in common? ART, I would dare to say. Trackmos, intros and all the productions of our "dimension" are nothing but ART, where as art we mean the climax of the human capability of creation and production. Pay attention, I do not mean everything from the scene is art, but, a lot of work from 2Spaceballs1, 2Sanity1,2 Anarchy1, just to say some names, can be defined so. And even some magazines, nowadays, have reached a level of quality which could be defined, if not poetry, at least literature! But, there's always a but. Sometimes diskmagazines are obscure for the masses. And even if they keep in the deepest part of their holy heart an even deeper meaning, zines are regarded as a difficult read, for the clever and wise, but also not understandable by everyone, use of mannerism, verbal tricks, disgressions and highly defined sintax; sometimes our magazines seem, and I underline seem, not to make any attempt to be clear and comprehensible. That's why in Abnormalia is born this corner. Macno already noticed what I've written and he asked me to try to be a sort of guide for all the people who would like to read "under, beneath, over the lines" and understand what an editor in his magazine REALLY wants to tell us. So here I am. Who was so unlucky to read my previous critical texts maybe has noticed that between the two huge landstones of our way, I mean 2Croce1's idealism and 2Gramsci1's marxism I use the last one, as I think it's more actual and modern, and suites better for our uses. The critical way of Gramsci is based on deep studies of the text together with massive researches on the historical background of the author, as history itself is nothing but the lives of ALL human beings, not just intellectuals or kings and queens, human beings who decide to live together and build up a society. So even art is not a holy "intuition", something of pure and undefined, but a real production of history and men, men which must have a role in their society. After this short brief I think we can start. We'll try to be as clear as we can, using a simple language and not too much technical words. If our work will be useful for just one of our readers we'll be glad and we'll consider our duty done, but if noone will take any advantage from our texts, well, then please forgive us. 3EL LOCO: Since I'm a "Knight of the fighting Spandimerda table" (being the only one, as well) these remarks are not spandimerda attacks, merely AWAKENINGS. Just to make things clear, that is. I would also like to thank Macno for actually enjoying my awakenings in 42, especially since he is among the very few who did. 3ZINKFLOID: As a lot of people hate me for all those nasty bytes I've ever written about them I take the chance right now to give you again the opportunity to hate me and to slaughter me in an offensive way, take the chance and send diskbombs to 2Ollie1 and 2Chester1 as they are currently painting my new appartement and opening all sendings adressed to me, so don't hesitate to send bombs as nobody takes care about them and they don't need their fingers in future (they clean my shoes with their tongues, hehehe). My opinion about the current diskmag scene: hate it. To call it a mag scene is a farce to all people because most of them are not worth to be called mags, yes I know... you don't like Suicid but I don't like you... that's the difference.