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Please give a warm Idiotical welcome to the first "Me, Myself and My Puppet" strip. Pay attention, you might learn a thing or two about Ventriloquist-Americans. This sudsy adventure comes courtesy of John Kovaleski!
We know what you’re thinking. In this age of digital photography and Photoshopping, it would be oh so easy for us to take a photo of the First Lady shopping at Target yesterday and fill her cart with a treasure trove of MAD books, DVDs, T-shirts, Spy Halloween costumes and more in a desperate attempt to elevate our status and drum up business for our ersatz line of products.
Only time will tell if The X-Factor is worthy of receiving "The Ecch-Factor" treatment in our pages.

MAD’s own gap-toothed grinning idiot mascot Alfred E. Neuman once again dons the cape…and the cowl…and the bustier…and the rubber ducky inner tube to transform himself into some of our favorite superheroes in a new line of collectible figures from DC Direct! They'll be available April 4, 2012, so start saving your nickels!
The Boston Red Sox and the Atlanta Braves will go down in baseball history as the two biggest team collapses in September ever.
There’s a legal thriller beginning in Los Angeles and paparazzi from around the world have got to be there as the trial begins for Michael Jackson’s former personal physician. Dr. Conrad Murray is charged with the involuntary manslaughter of the King of Pop. The question is: will he beat it? From our "MAD 20 Dumbest 2009" issue (#502), comes this hit.
You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll feel more than a little uneasy as "Just Below the Surface" makes it's blog debut. It's by Douglas Paszkiewicz. Happy Monday!
Last week, we asked readers of The Idiotical to guess what Hermann Mejia is working on for MAD #512. "c0ur7n3y" was the first commenter to get it right: Hermann's illustrating our spoof of smash-hit zombie smashfest, The Walking Dead!

