Cracked #336

Right as Star Wars: The Phantom Menace mania swept 1999, Cracked dove headfirst into the galaxy far, far away with this gleefully irreverent issue. John Severin's cover features a wide-eyed, caricatured Yoda peering over a fake tabloid — the "Tatooine Suns" — packed with absurd Star Wars headlines like "C-3POh-No!", "Darth Mauled!", and "Jabba's Garlic, Vinegar & Bantha Steak Diet!", with tiny caricatures of Anakin, C-3PO, R2-D2, and Darth Maul crammed into the mock front page. Inside, Lou Silverstone and Walter Brogan promise a behind-the-scenes send-up of the most talked-about film of the year, making this a wonderfully silly time capsule of peak Prequel-era pop culture.