i found it to be pretty underwhelming as a whole.
in my mind i saw it more "magazine" styled. firstly i disliked the layout, specifically the home page where you had to choose where to go. of course, you choose the first option and then click next continuing on to the next article etc., but i found it irritating that you had to go back to click a new article that youve already passed.
i would have gone the route in which it looked more like a webpage layout where you had all your articles on the left and the articles on the right. although both present a problem, spacing, but i think the webpage layout would have worked better. back to spacing, i felt that there was just too much blank space. most of the instances came from when you used pictures, instead of working the text you just pasted it.
thirdly, where the pictures at? with all the work people do in smeargles studio i had expected an art section. even without an art section there were too few pictures. also, no CAP section? that didnt warrant an article or two? "But one of the most important things I want to highlight is that the web-zine will not be a medium solely for competitive Pokémon." why is it that all we saw? i know a lot of this paragraph has to do with user input and created content but i felt even if i, or other people, contributed there probably still have been something you could have written about these subjects, even a link to a thread.
fourthly, what the fuck cookie? youve never heard of Cigar Aficianado (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigar_Aficionado)? you didnt see my link where i suggested it so people who dont know that its not just some italian douche baggery addition? did you not think it was clever how "cigar" and "gengar" sound similar thus make a humourus pun? do you know how many question marks are acceptable in a paragraph? i dont.
lastly, to go with my first point of being so underwhelming, there just wasnt enough content, especially being bi-monthly. again, i know, first issue, not enough contributors, etc. but even within what you did cover, you could have went further such as doing more than one q&a question, posting the entire battle log from the st5 final match, (for me) dumbing down the equations in the math section.
ps. the graphs on the "OU Leads" article is too small. if i need to put on my glasses and still cant read what the text says, its too small.