You know what's odd, though? Both parodies were written by Desmond Devlin, who is IMHO about the only MAD writer these days who's actually funny, especially when satirizing comics. On the old s_d I posted some brilliant parodies he did of Sandman: Endless Nights and Cathy as if written by Frank Miller.

Maybe Devlin wrote the movie parody on an off day, or was strictly instructed not to deviate from the formula of "just say over and over how bad and stupid the movie is", which is what basically every MAD movie parody has consisted of for the last 20 years.

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Hot damn, if Frank Miller started actually writing Cathy I'd be forced to start liking Cathy and Frank Miller. The universe would collapse.

It is odd that the same guy wrote both. Based on the other, I had thought the writer hadn't even read Watchmen, or probably even seen the movie. The awful "amusement-park-caricature-artist"-style art didn't help it much.

Imma gunna hafta find those other parodies now, because this stuff is refreshingly funny.

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