Another DC property we’re losing:
https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/04/media/mad-magazine-cease-publication-trnd/index.html
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The end of an institution. What a feshluggena world.
You can’t say DC didn’t try… they went all out when they relaunched the magazine last year. Some of MAD’s best work ever. The sales just weren’t there.
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Wow, grew up reading Mad. My first exposure to a lot of films came through Mad before I saw the movie. I distinctly remember The French Connection, Planet of the Apes and The Godfather as Mad parodies when I was too young to see them.
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It is a shame. But there are so many parodies done in vignette form on tv today, I can see why it didn’t fare as well. And the media cycle is so short, a monthly mag can’t keep up. Maybe they could launch it as a digital weekly with only a 4-8 page, high news cycle, parody a week?
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Dang, I didn’t know MAD was a DC property. I didn’t read it, but I had seen some odd episodes of the TV show when I was littler. Stinks that MAD’s gone now.
Very disappointing to hear, but I’ve never purchased a Mad Magazine so I guess I’m part of the problem
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Whoa. Read MAD for years as a kid. What a history, going back to when EC folded and Gaines brought all those artists to MAD with him. What a legacy!
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Being that MAD was a DC publication of sorts, that technically makes Mad TV a DC show.
ponders if Mad TV will come to DCU, knowing it actually won’t
I hope the mag can continue, but understand why it has sadly lost its foothold. I was so very tempted to start reading it on a continual basis when the new series started but I reluctantly had to pass for budgetary reasons.
When I think of MAD, Sergio Aragones’ art comes to mind as does reading my brother’s issues of it when I was a kid.
There’s also this:
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Which means Bendis will reach into the DC character archives and one of these will appear in Action Comics
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If Bendis puts this guy in Superman, I’ll be stoked. Like jumping around in brightest day stoked.
https://users.planetmadtv.com/elscorcho/characters/ubsguy.gif
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“ponders if Mad TV will come to DCU”
Sounds like a questions for Office Hours! 
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@Mae MAD TV is owned by Warner Brothers Television and relates to a publication put out by DC, so it could work in theory.
Actually, I’d rather see the DC segments of the MAD cartoon from a few years back pop up here.
Ms. Swan: “Who are you?”
Batman: “I’m Batman.”
Ms. Swan: “No, no. You no looka likea Bat. You Rubber Suit Man.”
Batman: “I am vengeance, I am the night! I…am…the god damn… BATMAN!”
Ms. Swan: “You so silly! Bye.”
Batman: “Stuart, I’m Batman. Come quickly, I’m here to save you.”
Stuart: “I don’t want to.” Starts running in circles. “Stranger danger, don’t touch me Rubber Suitman.”
Batman: “Stuart, we don’t have time for this.”
Stuart: “Why do you have nipples on your suit?”
Batman touches the earpiece in his mask. “Alfred, I was too late, the kid’s not here. Exhilarating, now.”