{"id":2951,"date":"2020-11-16T07:37:37","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/?p=2951"},"modified":"2020-10-18T20:48:41","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T03:48:41","slug":"517-swerving-madly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/517-swerving-madly\/","title":{"rendered":"517 &#8211; Swerving Madly"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"704\" height=\"646\" src=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/swerving-madly.png\" alt=\"A panel from Mad Comics #1, July 1952\" class=\"wp-image-2952\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/swerving-madly.png 704w, https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/swerving-madly-300x275.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><figcaption>A panel from Mad Comics #1, July 1952<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>In July 1952, EC Comics debuted a new comic:  Mad!  Filled with anthological stories from multiple genres with a silly bent, it eventually morphed into a satire magazine, rather than comic book and became the only surviving EC comic in just a few more years.  One story is horror, one is crime, one is western, one is science fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I thought the sci-fi story &#8220;Blobs&#8221; was kind of fun, since it is basically the premise of the story Pixar movie &#8220;Wall-E&#8221; (the future of the human race is that we will all be machine-bound slugs who cannot function on our own).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I _loved_ Mad Magazine as a kid, but never really got the nostalgia of the Mad comic books until now.  This was fun!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In July 1952, EC Comics debuted a new comic: Mad! Filled with anthological stories from multiple genres with a silly bent, it eventually morphed into a satire magazine, rather than comic book and became the only surviving EC comic in just a few more years. One story is horror, one is crime, one is western, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[498,349,350,298,444,20],"class_list":["post-2951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-498","tag-anthology","tag-ec","tag-humour","tag-mad-magazine","tag-science-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2954,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2951\/revisions\/2954"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codedread.com\/comicbooks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}