Re:A personal tour of MAD magazine, in the crucible of a you...
by whatever_dude on Monday June 27, 2016 @11:36AM
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> I dread the fact that I don't have my old meter-high stack of MAD magazines to pass on to my kids, nor the Heavy Metal or Metal Hurlant stack either. (Three continent moves later, these items are now just faint memories in the wind..)
Same. Sometimes I buy modern issues of magazines I used to read when I was younger, but it's not the same. MAD seems quirkier and I don't recognize many of the authors (although the movie parodies are still good). Heavy Metal/2099 AD seems very focused in the art of it and the writing is often mediocre.
Either they changed, or I have, or both. There's this intangible feeling of wanting to revive an old pleasure. It is hard to let go.
The "Few Gigs of PDF's" Archive is just not the same.
Until I get their iPads' wired up to the sun, there just won't be the same degree of reliability and functionality.
When reminded of MAD's demise, I can't help but feel we're really losing something by turning off the paper-publishing switch.
Does anyone have a stack of old comic books they want to get rid of? I'll pay shipping, wherever you are.