The Periodicals' Pyre - No. 3

Magazines we've loved then lost...

FINGER GUNNER DAILY: Launched in the eighteenth century, three days after the invention of the gun, this used to be the only daily publication aimed at people who enjoy blasting bullets into their own hands at close range. But the rise of the internet, coupled with the launch of over ninety similar daily magazines in the last five years, meant that Finger Gunner Daily shot itself in the hand instead of the head earlier this year when its readership fell into the dreaded negative figures.