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Potrzebie, Veeblefetzer, Max Korn, and Arthur the Plant, 2005-07-13
Prior to discovering the high-hilarity-in-print that is the Onion and the Weekly World News, Mad Magazine was the one and only satirical publication I'd pick up on a regular basis. When I discovered this CD-ROM set that included every single monthly issue from the early fifties all the way through '98, I grabbed a copy and gave it a whirl...
Some of the set's advantages and interesting features:
- It takes up far less space than the entire 1952-98 run of comic books and magazines.
- The Search-o-Meter has been very helpful in helping me find my fave movie & TV show parodies.
- Includes several animated Spy vs. Spy and Sergio Aragonés marginal shorts as originally shown on Mad TV.
- Also includes several "Mad radio minute" spots.
- I can finally fold those Al Jaffee Fold-Ins without ruining the "mint" condition of the CD-ROM!
Sadly, I discovered a few drawbacks as well:
- The clarity and resolution of the pages aren't as high as I'd hoped. While there is a magnification feature where you can "zoom in" on a section of a page, even with this there are still some times where the words are barely legible. Although I'm sure this development is due to the CD-ROM set's producers wanting to put as much as they can on as few CDs as possible, I'm still a bit miffed by it. I wouldn't have minded if they put all of the issues on ten or twelve CD-ROMs if it meant better clarity and resolution! Then again, itmight have been due to them using a low-quality scanner...
- This set includes just the material that appeared in the monthly issues. I made this unfortunate discovery when I tried to access "How to be an Effective Dog" as well as some of Don Martin's extra-periodical efforts for Mad. There I was, looking for "Don Martin Forges Ahead", "Don Martin Bounces Back", and those hard-to-find "Big Books" of his... and comin' up empty.
- The Mad radio spots are kinda dumb... even dumber than the average Mad TV episode!
- There was one fold-in Al Jaffee did back in the 60s featuring the Beatles; it's the only one he ever did that didn't fold vertically. However, the CD-ROM version of this particular fold-in DOES fold vertically... which means the gag doesn't quite work out.
Bottom line: If you're simply mad about the monthly issues of Mad magazine, and you can afford the fairly expensive asking price for this out-of-production collection, and you have a PC with a reasonably high-speed CD-ROM drive and at least a Windows 98 OS, and you have really good eyesight to make out the occasional not-so-clear page, then this bad-boy might be right up yer alley! Oh yeah, and watch out for falling bricks...
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