Today, ahead of the on-sale date of MAD Magazine’s latest issue, we get an exclusive revealing an interior from the popular satire publication. This MAD spin gives us several CGI-remade movie posters of classicTim Burtonthrillers, featuringDisneycharacters, includingPlanet of the Aristocats,Bambward Scissorhooves,Goofyjuice,Edward Wooden NoseandPooh Returns.
The cover of Issue #10 features MAD mascot, the iconicAlfred E. Newman, dressed as Pennywise the Clown fromITandIT Chapter 2. The mischievous nose-picker is seen stuck in a toilet, holding the scary clown’s signature red balloon, waist deep in some green sewer slime. The tagline ‘Everything Floats in Here’ offers some vivid imagery you may not want floating around in your head. Scrawled on the wooded interior of the outhouse is Alfred’s catchphrase, ‘What, Me Worry?’ And it all hints at the terrors contained within the pages of this latest issue, arriving for Fall and the Halloween season.
Of the Tim Burton spoof posters, the first reworks his 1990 classicEdward ScissorhandsasBamward Scissorhooves, giving us Johnny Depp as a goth version of Bambi who has scared away Thumper, Flower and his other forest friends. Second is a parody ofBeetlejuice, this time withJohnny Depptaking over the Michael Keaton role, only this time he’ll be calledGoofyjuice. The tagline screams, ‘In this house…If you’ve seen one Goof…You haven’t seen them all.’ And it promises that, ‘You’ll never kill his career.’ In direct reference to Depp’s recent career troubles. Geena Davis returns as Barbara Maitlin, but Alec Baldwin has been replaced by the frozen corpse of Walt Disney himself.
Next up is a spoof of Tim Burton’s 1994 classicEd Wood, which is a play on Pinocchio this time around, featuring Johnny Depp (once again) as the little wooden boy. The tagline reads, ‘Becoming a real boy was his passion. Jiminy was his inspiration. Angora sweaters were his weakness.’ Johnny Depp doesn’t show up anywhere in the fourth poster, which turns Tim Burton’sPlanet of the Apesinto aCatsmashup, riffing on the recent CGI nightmare that was the trailer for this Broadway adaptation.
The final poster turns Tim Burton’sBatman ReturnsintoPooh Returnsand features some of our fondly remembered friends from the 100 Acre Woods into Bruce Wayne and Pals. Pooh dons the cape and cowl as the Dark Knight, with Piglet taking on the sexy role of Catwoman, and Eeyore turning up as Penguin.
you may get your hands on a physical copy of MAD magazine next month on October 8th.
