Mad #438

MAD #438 from February 2004 brings together two of pop culture's most recognizable faces — a wide-eyed caricature of Michael Jackson in his signature sequined jacket draping an arm around a visibly nervous Alfred E. Neuman, whose "What, Me Worry?" shirt says it all. Drew Friedman's cover rendering is richly detailed and gleefully unsettling, perfectly capturing the tabloid circus of the era. Inside, the laughs keep coming with pieces on Jack Black, rejected superheroes, and Governor Ah-Nuld, plus Angelo Torres's artwork in "Letters and Tomatoes Dept.