I loved the MAD archives readings. I loved how the symbols on Superduperman's chest kept changing to really stupid stuff, like 100% cotton. Also, the part with Batboy where they he's getting shot at point blank range and isnt getting hit because, as he says, super heroes never get shot.

The greatest batman stories were as fun as usual. I thought it was really weird how much Batman relied on Robin to save him. He was yelling his name in his sleep, which creeped me out a lot. This week, i read all of The Dark Knight Returns, and going from that to the classic Batman was an interesting look on how things change with how the characters are treated and to whom they are targeting their material to. From my perspective, comics now are being directed at the people who grew up reading the older ones, so the material matures along with the audience.

BAMF's reading were cute, and I wish I had more time to read more Melvin the Monster.

It was a sort of classic cheezy cartoon, but it drew me in and I didnt want to put it down. The jokes were really simple, with Melvin's mom being a mummy, and he calls her mummy, or how since he's a monster, he should want to go to school and is a disappointment to his dad for wanting to get an education.

I liked the story with the fat kid who was a superhero in the Art out of Time book. He was like Superman, except he was clark kent twenty-four seven. It was kinda weird that it was ok to publish a kid's comic where the dad wants to beat the shit out of his kid. I would hands down recommend Melvin the Monster out of the two BAMF had to read.

Reading Challengers of the Unknown is kind of like hitting my head against a brick wall still. I can appreaciate the art. It's Jack Kirby for god's sake. I dont see how a tiny, easily destroyable weather machine could threaten humanity, but ok, ill buy it. I love the weird logic to their plan of putting themselves into a force field ball to throw at the monster, pretty much knowing all of them out. I saw no reason for them to be in it in the first place, they could have kicked it at him or something. With the midieval mirage story, i thought it was weird they automatically jumped to the conclusion that they were in an alternate demension, and not just hallucinating. Gotta love it for the hoakiness though.