America’s longest-running satire magazine continues to skewer everything pop culture, this time in comic book size! This Free Comic Book Day special edition of MAD features a wide variety of classic favorites like “Spy vs. Spy”, and “A MAD Look at…” by Sergio Aragonés. Plus, some maniacal mockeries of some of your favorite DC Superheroes, and a whole lot more from the Usual Gang of Idiots. This special edition will surely cure what ails you with a shot of humor in the jugular vein. And it is even cheaper than the usual CHEAP! Because it is FREE! So, you really would be an idiot if you didn’t go out and grab one!

I need to admit that I’ve heard a lot if good things about the Mad magazine, since its sort of like a satirical humor on superheroes, but after reading this one, I gotta admit that I wasn’t fun of this comic book if you can call it that.

I don’t know if it is just me, but I felt like the entire comic book felt very disjointed in a way. Because it was very confusing to me at first, since I never read this magazine before but after a while I started to get the hang of the comic book.

I know that a lot of people think that the magazine is funny, it could be just me or the this comic book but I didn’t find it funny. It safe to say that the humor in this comic book was clearly not meant for me. The humor in this comic book comes across as stale and uninspired.

But I have to admit that I liked some of the sketches and parodies in this one since they had sharp with, but the majority of them didn’t. And because of the fact that I didn’t like the majority of them, the entire comic book seemed boring and torturous to me which explains the low rating I had given this comic book.

The artwork in this comic book is very inconsistent. Because at times the artwork is very good but there are other times where the artwork looks like something drawn by a toddler. The inconsistency in this comic book really annoyed me because I don’t like it when a book, magazine or a movie I’m spending time on is different at times.

The pacing in this book is very uneven. Because some segments of this comic book drag on unnecessarily long.  While others are rushed, preventing any real connection with the material. Which really makes it difficult to immerse oneself in the humor or appreciate any deeper commentary the pieces might have been aiming for

I Give This Book 1 / 5