Mad #473

Mad #473 kicks off 2007 with a gleefully irreverent cover featuring Alfred E. Neuman — looking appropriately worse for wear in his orange jacket — posed alongside a caricature of a bespectacled, camouflage-clad figure holding a shotgun in a wintry outdoor setting. The pairing perfectly sets up the issue's banner promise: a tribute to "The 20 Dumbest People, Events & Things of 2006." If you appreciate satire that pulls no punches in skewering the year's most memorable follies, this is exactly the kind of Mad that earns its motto.