Mad Disasters

Rating:
Summary: I would not go so far as the title indicates but it is close
Review: "MAD Disasters" represents a collection of work by Don "Duck" Edwing, who supposed knows more about disasters than anybody else because of his nine marriages, school record, work record, and this book. I might believe it about the last on the list because while I am pretty sure I have never seen the work of Duck Edwing before, having moved beyond "MAD Magazine" at some point in the past that predated his addition to the usual gang of idiots, I do not think I have missed much. In fact, if you had told me these were humorous cartoons from "Cracked" or some other imitation "MAD" magazine of juvenile humor, I would have agreed and the circle would have gotten the square.

Within these pages you have a wide range of assorted disasters, from great culinary and military disasters to sports and historical disasters. Each disaster is numbered according to type and we are repeatedly encouraged to "Collect Them All." A representative strip regarding an aeronautical disaster has both the pilot and the copilot of the plane passing out after drinking too much, a situation which requires the stewardess to ask if any of the passengers could possibly fly the plane and save the lives of everybody on board. One old guy takes control since he was in the air force in World War II (It would be the Army Air Corp, but that is okay, play along). The only problem is that he was not a pilot, but a bombadier. You should be able to imagine what he does instead of flying the plane, but that is going to force you to really rethink the construction of your standard jet airliner.

I am all for the willing suspension of disbelief in the quest for a good laugh, but while two wrongs might make a right three or more just really foul things up. From the explanation for the origin of the wave at football games to the story of Christopher Columbus' fourth ship, the Domino Pizza, these "disasters" are largely a series of misfires. These might pass for wit in "MAD Magazine" today, but that would only seem to indicate to me that maybe the magazine has gone down hill in recent years and that I should launch into a big lot speech about how things were better in my day and start raving about Don Martin and Mort Drucker.

Rating:
Summary: I would not go so far as the title indicates but it is close
Review: "MAD Disasters" represents a collection of work by Don "Duck" Edwing, who supposed knows more about disasters than anybody else because of his nine marriages, school record, work record, and this book. I might believe it about the last on the list because while I am pretty sure I have never seen the work of Duck Edwing before, having moved beyond "MAD Magazine" at some point in the past that predated his addition to the usual gang of idiots, I do not think I have missed much. In fact, if you had told me these were humorous cartoons from "Cracked" or some other imitation "MAD" magazine of juvenile humor, I would have agreed and the circle would have gotten the square.

Within these pages you have a wide range of assorted disasters, from great culinary and military disasters to sports and historical disasters. Each disaster is numbered according to type and we are repeatedly encouraged to "Collect Them All." A representative strip regarding an aeronautical disaster has both the pilot and the copilot of the plane passing out after drinking too much, a situation which requires the stewardess to ask if any of the passengers could possibly fly the plane and save the lives of everybody on board. One old guy takes control since he was in the air force in World War II (It would be the Army Air Corp, but that is okay, play along). The only problem is that he was not a pilot, but a bombadier. You should be able to imagine what he does instead of flying the plane, but that is going to force you to really rethink the construction of your standard jet airliner.

I am all for the willing suspension of disbelief in the quest for a good laugh, but while two wrongs might make a right three or more just really foul things up. From the explanation for the origin of the wave at football games to the story of Christopher Columbus' fourth ship, the Domino Pizza, these "disasters" are largely a series of misfires. These might pass for wit in "MAD Magazine" today, but that would only seem to indicate to me that maybe the magazine has gone down hill in recent years and that I should launch into a big lot speech about how things were better in my day and start raving about Don Martin and Mort Drucker.

Rating:
Summary: mad disasters by duck edwing
Review: a hilarious mayhem of absurd visuals and knee slapping humor, woven together with dark side jokes and a never ending barage of clever, funny cartoons as only the master of disaster can scratch out when he dips his pen into the ink cauldron that is mounted atop that grinning skull!