08/24/05
X-Men ALERT! and MAD Magazine board games
Two things I was a big fan of as a kid were Marvel Comics and MAD Magazine. My infatuation with MAD came first, back when I was an elementary schooler obsessed with gross-out humor. The mere sight of a cartoonishly-rendered pile of dog feces was enough to send me into a fit of laughter in those days, but I soon came to appreciate MAD's other redeeming qualities - satire (such as it was) and occasionally fantastic art. This funnybook probably had a larger part in shaping my sense of humor and drawing style than I'd sometimes like to admit.
Alas, I eventually outgrew my love of MAD sometime in middle school, and replaced it with a love of something far more sinister: comic books. When the comic bug bit me it bit hard, and what started out as a few X-Men and Fantastic Four comics here and there turned into a full-blown collector freak-out in the early to mid-90s. Luckily, that soon tapered off into a diet of a few choice indie books, and that in turn devolved into a habit of scrounging through the 4-for-a-dollar bins for gems like Grant Morrison's Doom Patrol and Giffen and DeMatteis' original Justice League run. And now, even though it's been years since I've bought a comic book, I still read them in stores from time to time.
Oh yeah, the board games were $1.95 each at Red White & Blue.
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