Where's MAD magazine in all of this? It used to be you could count on MAD for these ridiculous take-offs on the traditional super-heroes, skewering them in delightful ways. And as part of the DC family, MAD had carte blanche access to the DC characters that they didn't enjoy with other publishers' properties. But I haven't even looked at an issue of MAD in a donkey's age, so maybe they've become irrelevant.



Failing that DC should bring back PLOP! where they could do all kinds of parodies and send ups. Maybe instead of just one title, PLOP! could be an imprint like with Wonder Comics and Young Animals, where creators would have the freedom to go wild with the DC universe. I could see Plastic Man, Ambush Bug and the Inferior Five belonging under that umbrella.