Cracked #324

Cracked #324 (March 1998) sends up MTV's reality programming with a cover that drops two familiar animated slackers — rendered by cover artist Walter Brogan — into a gritty, photo-realistic urban backdrop of barrel fires and wintry street chaos. The duo shivers and complains in speech bubbles as the headline blares "Beaver and Butt-Face Do the Real Real World," capturing Cracked's gleefully irreverent approach to pop-culture parody. Inside, writers Judd Stomp and Katey Dash, with art by Frank Cummings, turn their sights on MTV itself — promising exactly the kind of deadpan send-up that made Cracked a beloved fixture on newsstands.