Cracked #293

Cracked magazine takes aim at the summer of 1994's biggest animated blockbuster on this cover, where a regal but thoroughly indignant lion — clearly a stand-in for The Lion King — gets unceremoniously dumped on by a colorful parrot swooping overhead, much to the big cat's snarling displeasure. Walter Brogan's cover art sets the irreverent tone perfectly, promising a "shocking exposé" alongside additional jabs at City Slickers II and NYPD Blue. If you were looking for a time capsule of mid-'90s pop culture skewered with gleeful bad taste, this issue delivers the goods.