First Issue Review – Connect

Connect is the new title from Future Publishing. Despite the fact that this magazine has positioned itself as an Internet entertainment title, at first glance it is difficult to tell what it is about. A spaced out Zippy, of Rainbow fame, is this month’s coverboy and he sets the tone for the rest of the magazine.

There are four main sections: Arts and entertainment, lifestyle and leisure, the net and bizarre. Each of these headings is filled with a mix of web addresses, short question and answer features and of course the compulsory naked women. Yet another men’s magazine editor has decided that the only way to sell copies is to shove in a pair of bare breasts at every opportunity.

Although the title is trying desperately to distinguish itself from the traditional computer geek titles, they will still be its biggest reader group. Few other people have the time or patience to trawl through a directory of web addresses marking out the ones they would like to surf over to.

Even fewer people will be prepared to fork out the £4.99 for Connect, although it does come with a supposedly free cover-mounted CD-Rom. This month’s issue contained 122 pages, 15 of which were advertising.