Heart of the City by Steenz for January 26, 2011

No argument here.

I would just say … :P :P

I agree with Heart.

They did beat the comic book code by calling it a magazine.

And yes, it is a cultural icon.

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girls vs guys - I never found Mad magazine as funny as my brother did.

@ghostkeeper - you’re right. Saw a recent copy, and I agree.

Heart probably wouldn’t think the THREE STOOGES were funny. But then most girls don’t.

@ghostkeeper - that’s exactly what I came to say. Dean’s occassional reading of Mad bugs me, but I keep it to myself because, well, who really cares? Not everyone has to know when I’m bugged (at least not anyone who won’t give me candy and/or money to shut up about it).

But right now we’re in the middle of a storyline that could only have been the product of not having read it since, at latest, the early 90’s. Once Time Warner bought out the magazine, started printing it on magazine-quality paper, and put in ads, Mad died.

Even bathroom humour is better than the bleeep they fill the magazine with now–most of it seems to be real photos with wacky captions. Mad Magazine was always lowbrow, and we loved them for it; it’s just that, before William Gaines died and Time Warner bought it out, it was never lazy.

Do you know what number 2 humor is?

Number One, I order you to do a Number Two.

The storyline needs some marginal thinking by Sergio Aragonès.

Vomit jokes are the price we pay for not having Polish jokes.

The day Al Feldstein retired Mad’s days as being funny were numbered. When Bill Gaines died Mad really died with it. I look at it periodically now and just shake my head. Jack Davis walked away from it. Sergio’s stuff isn’t very funny anymore. I understand Mad is a quarterly now. If that’s true, that says something about how it’s selling right now.

R.I.P. Alfred E.

Wait till you get to the diarrhea gag!

RIP mad magazine .. you’ll be missed