Weekly World News dies after 28 years of awesum, Bat Boy bummed

The final issue of Weekly World News is slated for August 3, 2007.

Lesbian Space Alien and Vegan Vampire Lady could not be reached for comment.


As you can see here, Bat Boy remains inconsolable.

SF Scope has more: Link 1, Link 2. WaPo: Link. Reuters: Link.

Reader Comment: Nathan Cobb, MD, says,

While the cover stories of the Weekly World News were always amusing, it was
in reality a sleazy tabloid that used its fictional stories to protect
itself from charges of libel and slander. Inside the stories were often
adopted from real news and freely changed or embellished. I'll never forget
being in the supermarket with my college roommates, picking up the WWN and
laughing at the headlines – only to open up to an "article" on the recent
murder of one of my relatives by a mentally ill handyman (in front of her
two little children.) The crime was horrific; the fact-free hatchet job they
did on her husband for opposing the death penalty was over the top. Good
riddance.