the vynsane asylum

I will pass on Miller Superman. That's sad.

Not a comic book perse, but DC Is relaunching MAD Magazine with a new #1.

What a goddamn travesty.

MAD was one of those indelible icons of childhood. One probably didn’t “collect” it on monthly basis, but every kid had a half dozen issues that were thoroughly dog eared from having been read so much. And the sarcastic humor shaped generations of kids. As newsstands and magazine racks have fallen out of favor, the magazine has had a more difficult time and basically become a niche market of nostalgia for older readers. But they aren’t going to attract new readers simply by slapping a new #1 on the cover. They’re marketing paper goods to an internet YouTube generation. Just leave the fucking numbering on that one book alone, as a testament to its longevity. You heartless fucks.

Mad died when Warner bought it.

Much like any comic book, nobody is going to say, "Issue 551!? There's no way I'll be able to under stand whats going on!" or "#1!? Awesome! I can start fresh from the beginning!"

I assume they are also reformatting the book as well, ala TV Guide and Rolling Stone.

i had a subscription to MAD when i was a kid. my uncle bought it for me a couple years in a row when i was 11 or so because he said that's what a boy that age should have.

it's funny/sad how irrelevant MAD became and that CRACKED ended up embracing the internet and coming out on top (although from what i can tell, it seems CRACKED has jumped the shark, is that the case? i haven't been to that site in a while, but the one article i read recently was really... corporate, or something, idk).

I bought Mad for the movie satires. I could have a good read of them & get a pretty damned good idea as to what actually happened in the movie. In a number of cases the movie was too mature for me to see or just something I wasn't going to get taken to - so the only version I ever got to enjoy was the Mad one. I thank them for those.

I remember some of the jokes about movies from MAD more than I remember the actual movies.
And if I ever rewatch one of those movies, I’ll chuckle at the part MAD was skewering.

In its latest Event series, Something Something Crisis, DC continues it’s butchery, killing off several C-list heroes as well as Roy”Arsenal” Harper and Wally”The One True Flash” West.

Shitty.

Does DC go a full year between reboots and Crises anymore?

Apparently not.

I was sorely tempted to pick up the first issue of Heroes in Crisis. Because A) Tom King is writing it and B ) Clay Mann is drawing it. I totally dig both them guys.

But I can’t abide them doing Wally wrong like that. He’s the Flash. Not Barry. And I won’t contribute money to it.

DC is resorting to puns for its Events now. The next one is called DCEASED.

Details are sketchy, but at least one cover has Batman fighting zombie cops. Is it DC’s version of Marvel Zombies? Don’t know.

After almost 20 years, Dan Didio has left DC.
And I’m not sure it was his idea. Details are very sketchy.
They just announced with no warning or fanfare that he was no longer their publisher(or co-publisher with Jim Lee).

Edit. Nope, he was definitely fired.

Saw a report this morning that if 5G fails AT&T will either close the publishing arm of DC or sell DC altogether.

I imagine Disney would buy it, which would be awfulsome.



Also, I didn't know AT&T owned WB.

Oh, and 5G had nothing to do with wireless/cellphones.
Its DC's upcoming Generation Five event that "fixes" the continuity.
Horrible, confusing name.

The Ian Levine collection went up for auction today at Sotheby’s.

40,000+ issues. Every DC comic published between 1934 and 2014. Every. Single. One.

That’s gotta be worth at least, like what, $12?