I bought recently the new issue of MAD , with a Romney/Obama " devils " cover and a parody of the Avengers movie .
It had occured to me that , " As a DC publication , perhaps Mad would be not that likely to get an advance screening and pics to work from , etc. , as Mad's movie-parody producers have , at times , received in the past - It's DC's competitor behind the basic concept of the movie , anyway , which might occur to Disney "...And , frankly , MAD places less emphasis on movie parodies in general now , and may be seen as a little too " old hat " a magazine now .
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Also ... MAD is now a quarterly, not a monthly, so the people who did the parody may well have seen it already.
I saw that issue yesterday and flipped through it, but Mad magazine has changed so much I just couldn't bring myself to buy it. I'll stick with the annual "Stupidest things of 20XX" issues.
...It went back up to bi-monthly soon after the fall to quarterly , Jeff .
MAD's a bimonthly now? Good to know.
But I'm with Jeff; MAD's changed -- and I've changed -- so much that it's just not for me any more.
...Fair enough - Could it be that , in fact , they have stayed with the concept of " appealing - primarily - to smart/smartass 10-14-year olds " - those of TODAY ???????????
Just as we have umpteen posts up here decrying the perceicved " lack of younger person-suitable/' gateway drug ' product for the youth of TODAY..." :-) .
Yeah. It's not necessarily a bad thing that MAD isn't for me any more. It IS a bad thing that MAD is sleazier than it used to be, but that's another discussion.
...Well , Clark , I see that earlier thread was started by me !!!!!!!!!
Anyhow , let's make this a thread for , not only all aspects of MAD , but the parody/satire magazines/comic books ( I suppose I have to make that distinction . ) that followed in its vein - and , for sure , p/s magazines that weren't quite in the same vein , going at least all the way back to the Depression-era BALLYHOO , if need be , even further than that , in America...and to PUNCH , early-Victorian IIRC , in the UK ( Um , was Great Britain officially called " The United Kingdom " then ????? )...maybe that could seem a bit much , but:
What about NATIONAL LAMPOON ??? Are there any , book or DVD ( If that's the format . ) complete collections of that mag's years ???
Oh , and a running gag , I don't know if anyone but myself has ever noticed it , is that the contemporary MAD al3ways lists , on its contents page , a title and page number for an article that does not , in fact , appear in the mag !!!!!!! :-)
What , me worry ???????
There was a DVD complete collection of National Lampoon, but it's no longer easily available.
Here it is.
...How complete ??? Up to what year ??? Thank you .
Emerkeith Davyjack said:
The linked page says it goes to 1998.
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