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MAD Magazine goes quarterly

#1 Post by gsabc » Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:41 pm

http://www.newsarama.com/comics/010923- ... terly.html

Where will today's youth learn their subversion now?
I just ordered chicken and an egg from Amazon. I'll let you know.
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#2 Post by nitrah55 » Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:51 pm

MAD has been deteriorating since the 1970s, and has been doomed since they started taking ads.
I am about 25% sure of this.
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#3 Post by SportsFan68 » Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:57 pm

I have an old MAD, dunno how I ended up with it, from the 1960s. I glance through it every so often, and I laugh at something every single time.

It's a mess, torn cover, faded, creased, and all that, so not saleable. But something that can make me laugh every time might as well be gold plated.
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#4 Post by VAdame » Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:58 pm

Where will today's youth learn their subversion now?
That's what the InterWebs are for! :P
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#5 Post by jaybee » Mon Jan 26, 2009 5:44 pm

I always read MAD as a pre-teen and teen - it became a tradition to get a MAD in my Christmas stocking, a tradition that still lives on to this day (My S-I-L is the usual MAD purchaser). I agree that the magazine is going downhill - this years was especially disappointing - lots of ads an much of the 'humor' was one-sided political rants.
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#6 Post by WheresFanny » Tue Jan 27, 2009 10:03 am

I wasn't even aware that they were still publishing it.
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#7 Post by peacock2121 » Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:23 pm

WheresFanny wrote:I wasn't even aware that they were still publishing it.
Me either
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#8 Post by PlacentiaSoccerMom » Wed Jan 28, 2009 12:19 am

Emma met Sergio Aragonés at a Game Show Congress trip to "What's My Line." She was so impressed with the picture that he drew for her that she asked me to buy her a subscription to the magazine.
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#9 Post by minimetoo26 » Wed Jan 28, 2009 7:59 am

On the bright side, they said they were hearing that only one out of three issues was funny, so they'll only publish those ones....
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