Plooky Night Live (and the Not RK for TIP Thread Players) with your host F. Myles Ron

[Artie Pink]

Holy shit! I was completely joking! Glad to see I could've written for MAD in the 70s. er....80s

Honestly most of the jokes would not be out of place on the actual show sometimes!

[TIP]

I think Riker leaned that way because those uniforms are tight. His body was trying to free itself.

(Starfleet rejected Riker's submission of a new uniform design: Nude.)

[TIP]

[Adrian B AWESOME]

I wish I was into MAD when I was a kid. My parents let me read all the comics I wanted but for whatever reason they looked down on MAD.

[Your Pal, Carl]

Jim! Have you and Jess taken a look at the panels for C2E2?

There's one on Friday that looked entertaining from various perspectives.

Spoiler:

CSC-1: Comics and the Cold War: Constructions of Morality and Gender

Description:
Samantha Doerge (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) looks at how Cold War questions about moral and civic duty from the 1960s contributed to the development of Marvel Comics and the Marvel antihero. Christina L. Blanch (Ball State University) examines how Mort Weisinger used Lois Lane as a vehicle to express his own often-disturbing personal anxieties and fears about women, love, and the budding feminist movement. Adriana Estrada (University of Houston) uses moral panic theory and labeling theory to investigate how the crusade against comic books of the 1940s and 1950s was a major setback for the progression of the medium—a set back that the medium is still recovering from today.

[Adrian B AWESOME]

Ball State represent!

[Cth]

I wish I was into MAD when I was a kid. My parents let me read all the comics I wanted but for whatever reason they looked down on MAD.

I was in it for the superhero parodies and mainly Spy vs Spy (c64 games!)

I also picked up National Lampoon magazine back in the day.. stealth boobs! I'd pick Weekly World News for their page 3 girl too

[Artie Pink]

Jim! Have you and Jess taken a look at the panels for C2E2?

There's one on Friday that looked entertaining from various perspectives.

Spoiler:

CSC-1: Comics and the Cold War: Constructions of Morality and Gender

Description:
Samantha Doerge (School of the Art Institute of Chicago) looks at how Cold War questions about moral and civic duty from the 1960s contributed to the development of Marvel Comics and the Marvel antihero. Christina L. Blanch (Ball State University) examines how Mort Weisinger used Lois Lane as a vehicle to express his own often-disturbing personal anxieties and fears about women, love, and the budding feminist movement. Adriana Estrada (University of Houston) uses moral panic theory and labeling theory to investigate how the crusade against comic books of the 1940s and 1950s was a major setback for the progression of the medium—a set back that the medium is still recovering from today.

Lois!

I'm not sure if we're going. I can't decide!

[Artie Pink]

I wish I was into MAD when I was a kid. My parents let me read all the comics I wanted but for whatever reason they looked down on MAD.

Loved Mad, especially the little paperback collectons.

[Ashwin Pande]

I used to get British MAD here which was regular MAD with more u's.

I loved MAD though. Movie parodies were good but often the least funniest bit in the magazine.