Should We Do an Extra Issue This Year? (Patreon)

Hey there, Force fans! Question for you.

Currently we're working on NF Issue #41, which is set to be labeled as "September/October 2019" in keeping with the bi-monthly publishing schedule we've held to ever since the magazine started six and a half years ago. But we're considering breaking from tradition and doing two separate issues to cover that same span of time instead, which would make Issue #41 simply be the "September 2019" issue and then Issue #42 would be "October 2019."

This wouldn't be a permanent change! Since NF began, fans have been asking us to go monthly, making 12 issues a year. If we tried to do that, though, we'd all get burned out really quickly. A much more manageable idea is to simply step things up by a single notch: Putting out seven new issues each calendar year instead of six.

And if we were to make the shift to seven issues a year instead of six, it would make sense for the extra one to appear in the September/October time frame that's fast approaching – that's the time of year when there are more new releases to cover than any other.

If you're in favor of this change, please vote accordingly in the poll posted here. If you're against it and want things to stay exactly as they have been, let us know that too. On the one hand, you'd get more NF! On the other, it would mean seven charges to your credit card over the course of each calendar year instead of six. I don't want to bamboozle anyone or surprise anyone with another charge they weren't expecting. 

If we do move forward with this idea, Issue #41 will have the Dragon Quest theme, Dragon Quest XI world map and Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening wall poster as already planned. Issue #42 would then be a Halloween-themed edition with Luigi's Mansion 3 on the cover, a Luigi's Mansion 3 wall poster and probably another October-appropriate game on the reverse side of the poster, like Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night.

Whether we do one or two issues for the September/October time frame, the normal schedule will be restored afterward, with the next issue being "November/December 2019," the one after that being "January/February 2020" and so on. 

OK, enough talk! Have at that poll!

~ Lucas M. Thomas