Numero Uno? Numero no no!

(Issue two is out now, but I have been slow. All judg­ments below are based on the first issue. I’m not buy­ing anoth­er one to see if it’s improved.)

When I saw the first issue of Uno on the shelves at the super­mar­ket, I was hop­ing it would be the Wel­ling­ton equi­val­ent of Metro – on a good day, not all “Why your kids’ school will give you can­cer and nev­er let them buy a house” Listen­eresque. But it’s not. It’s really, really not. Instead it turns out that Uno is every bit as advert­ising-copy driv­en as the Wel­ling­ton Guide – without the advant­age of at least being Welly exclus­ive. I sup­pose I should have known bet­ter give that Wel­ling­ton’s offi­cial vil­lain of 2006 is on the cov­er. After the jump, more reas­ons not to waste $9.95.