What a waste. If I wanted to buy Maxim, I would just go ahead and buy Maxim. Except for the tiny picture of Sylvester P. Smythe on the cover and the subscription cards, I didn’t see a whole lot of connection with the previous incarnation. I am plenty familiar with the notion of exploiting a name for the purpose of sales, but I wonder how much mileage the editors expect to get out of using the name of a magazine that most people probably remember as “That magazine that was kind of like MAD, but not as good.”
Yeah, I was disappointed by it. It simply wasn’t very funny.
When was it ever funny?
When I was nine. Interestingly enough, it was funny when you were nine also, whether or not we were nine at the same time.
Agreed, and even then only in their monster editions.
Well put.
A few years ago I looked at a CRACKED and was amazed to see it had more MAD-like content than MAD did (I guess it was the final home of the late Don Martin). I wasn’t aware that it expired & then revived.
I picked this up last night. I was never a really big fan of Cracked, which always seemed to be playing “catch up” to MAD. Even when they tried to come up with a new premise of their own, it always seemed Mad-inspired. (Although occasionally they managed to get a movie satire out before Mad did, and with a better punnch line at the end).
I haven’t read the whole thing, but my impression is that it’s almost funny. They’re working really hard and trying to be edgy, but it comes off as closer to desperation and annoying.
Maybe they’ll improve.
It’s the Family Guy of magazines.