Cracked

From 2000 to 2004, Cracked returned for a 19-issue run under American Media, reviving the classic humor-comic formula with a mix of slapstick parody and satirical one-pagers. Writers Dick Kulpa, Barry Dutter, and Gary Fields, alongside artists like Kulpa, John Severin, and Frank Cummings, kept the tone broadly irreverent, spoofing pop culture and current events without the edge of its more famous competitor. While never reaching the heights of its earlier decades, this iteration stands as a late-era attempt to keep the magazine-style gag comic alive in the direct market.