I was taken aback by the number of gay jokes about wearing tights and capes contained herein, including one as recent as the Smallville parody. Reading or re-reading all of these film parodies today can make for a strange experience the art doesn’t age a day and is essentially timeless, but much of the humor is closely tied to the creation of the films (some of the jokes I only got because author Larry Tye discussed the making of the films in such detail in his s2012 book Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero) or the time in which they were created.
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So the only Superman movie missing here is 1987′s Superman IV: The Quest For Peace, perhaps left alone out of a sense of mercy…? After all, some movies are so bad that making fun of them just seems plain mean.
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The bulk of the book belongs to artist Mort Drucker, who drew the Mad movie parodies of the first first three Superman movies (Or, as the Man of Steel’s called in the first two parodies, Superduperman and, in the third, Stuporman), plus Smellville (a television parody only a single letter away from its source material), and the illustration for two-page feature entitled “What If Superman Were Raised By Jewish Parents?” (Well, his creators were Jewish isn’t that close enough?)Īs such, it makes for more a showcase of Drucker’s incredible artwork than it does for jokes at Superman’s expense, particularly Drucker’s superb caricature abilities, a gift perfectly deployed on movie parodies, where every character looks like the actor who plays them, and panels are jam-packed with “chicken fat” details that reward the lingering eye.įor the parody of 2006 Superman Returns-”Stuporman Reruns!”, narrated by “Spider-Sham,” because Mad wanted a hipper superhero to entice readers-artist Tom Richmond handles the art duties, which are in full color.
Written and drawn by The Usual Gang of IdiotsĭC uses the occasion of a release of yet another Superman feature film, the franchise’s sixth, to gather-up and repackage a slew of their previous Superman movie parodies into this themed special that’s cover-to-cover Superman jokes, dating as far back as 1966 and as recently as last month.