I still read old magazines every so often and find them enjoyable.  They give me context of the times, time-capsule style.  Of course they were curated by the "taste makers" of that era (so things are still missing or under the radar), but reading magazines still helps me to put everything in order in my mind (seeing ads for games coming out at the same time certain comics were coming at the same time movies were, and books and music and other events and news, etc).

One thing I notice some people struggle with online is "chronology".  For example, I will read a post on a video game website where people totally mix up dates and times of certain games, or claim some game mechanic was first introduced in one game when clearly it was implemented in another five years prior blah blah haha, it is just one of those things that bothers me sometimes. I find magazines are some of the easiest sources to help straighten chronology in the mind, so you get a good timeline going to explain how things were shaped.  "Nothing exists in a vacuum" and all that.

Back when comic magazines were a thing (well, on the rare occasions I get to, I sometimes purchase stuff like "Backissues" magazine), I did buy them quite often.  Or rather, my mother, who also enjoyed comics, would let me buy them haha, even if some of them had articles like this:

This is from a comic magazine that was called "Combo".  I don't know too much about it, but I have a few copies and it was pretty interesting.

I have probably a hundred issues of Wizard, and then some Comic's Buyers Guide and The Comics Journal as well (but Wizard was way easier for me to get my hands on since it was at the grocery store).  But I will share a few pages from Combo in this post. 

Sorry for the poor quality images, the lighting is messing up the text on the pages.  I'll try to fix it later.

So, here are some pages from a 1996 issue of Combo.

Warren Ellis book recommendations:

Classic comic reviews for the classic comics forum:

This one I will need to re-take the image since you can barely read it, but it is about early web comics: