Mad #439

Mad's March 2004 Oscar season issue delivers exactly the kind of gleeful irreverence you'd hope for, with Mort Drucker's masterful caricature work arranging a dart-board full of Hollywood's biggest faces — Uma Thurman, Gollum, Arnold, Julia Roberts, Russell Crowe, Johnny Depp, Jack Black, Will Ferrell, Halle Berry, Nemo, Adam Sandler, and more — each labeled around the wheel as MAD picks its Oscar "Winners & Losers." A dart is mid-flight toward the board, letting pure chance (or MAD's editorial wisdom) decide Hollywood's fate. Bonus points for the free Lords of the Bling poster tucked inside — this one's a genuine time capsule of early-2000s pop culture.