Having been born in 1968, MAD had already been around for over a decade by them, so MAD was quite a staple of my young life as it was popular with my parents, aunts and uncles and so it ended up becoming a favorite of mine. I had rea “funny books”“ before, as some cartoony comics were called, but this was the first thing with adult humor that dealt with everything from pop culture to politics. While I hadn’t regularly read MAD in a while I was delighted to see this pop up in my review box.
I’m happy to say MAD hasn’t lost any of its edge from the days when I used to gobble up every issue released. No matter what your race cree, religion, politics, identity or whatever you can count on MAD to still irreverently go after anyone and everyone. Everything or everyone you like is gonna get roasted and so is everyone and everything you hate, its all good and frankly people these days need to be able to take a joke, so I’m glad to see MAD is still dishing it out.
MAD gets after its subject matter in a way that will be familiar to fans of things like South Park. It’s all fair game and most importably…it’s funny! Sure not ever joke is to my taste but there is plenty of value within the pages of MAD to make the purchase worth it no matter what you style of humor is. With this being October this particular issue takes aim at all things scary and pokes some great fun at them. One of my favorite bits includes a MAD look at the films of Alfred Hitchcock, which offers some great takes on The Birds and Psycho to name a few. Fear not because modern horrors such as IT also get ripped as well as everything in between.
ART
I’ve always found the art in the pages of MAD to be quite good. It was in these pages that I was first introduced to the legendary genius of Sergio Argones, the creator of Groo the Wanderer as well as others like Don Heck. The art in this issue remains ever bit as good as any I’ve ever seen, except for one panel of art which was pretty amateurish but the joke was still good. Given the number of artists you can expect a variety of styles but one thing you can count on in MAD are exceptionally well done characteristic art (a staple of their parodies of tv and movies or political cartoons).
FINAL THOUGHTS
With a publishing history spanning nearly 70 years, MAD can still deliver the goods.
SCORE: 5 out of 5
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