Too old for Mad?
November 7th, 2007 by Jeff
I bought this issue of Mad Magazine because the artwork of a zombified Alfred E. Neuman on the cover is amazing; I’d like a big poster-sized print of it. I used to buy Mad pretty often when I was a kid. I even had an Alfred t-shirt. Tina hated that shirt… I wonder where it went…
But, anyway, I got this issue of Mad and was reading through it and I must say I’m pretty disappointed. It’s just not as funny as I remember. Most notably, some segments of the magazine seem to be targed at almost a “tween” demographic. Jokes about how middle school is tough and how the school bus driver is smelly. Was that stuff always in there, and I just didn’t notice it because I myself was in that age group back then?
There’s a lot more color and the pages are more of a glossy magazine stock, instead of the old black-and-white newsprint-style pages. I don’t prefer the color and gloss. There are also several advertisement pages, which I didn’t remember the old magazines having.
It’s always a bummer to revisit something you liked a lot in your youth only to have it not hold up. Maybe I just got a weak issue?
November 10th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
might just be a bad crop of writers right now?
How was the Spy vs. Spy?
November 11th, 2007 at 5:26 pm
It’s okay. It’s all been colorized, though, including Spy Vs. Spy. I just don’t care for the colorization. I guess the modern audience doesn’t want a black and white magazine.