July/Aug 2000 PRINT Magazine

...Charged, another Zapata site is even better. Its lean design and diverse content sell "action and leisure"[one issue featured pieces on sandboarding and extreme mountain biking] and attracts readers with blurbs about tarot cards, banana slugs, and scamming free trips on Greyhound. Besides being a compelling read, the zine looks great: its green and purple layout feels welcoming, its navigational iconography hospitable and consistently catchy. Charged feels less like a magazine than a trendy club where twenty-somethings come to chill, and proves one of the few exceptions to why-even as the Net expands exponentially-new e-mags are unable to challenge the old guard's popularity: They don't do it very well. Charged offers Gen-Xers community and shelter from the deafening noise of cyberspace. Other zines have begun to understand this clubiness...

- Colin Berry