MADness #73: The Dark Knight!

Holy back from vacation, Batman! It’s the same bat-time on the same bat-channel as we return to our crusade of vengeance that is my work for MAD magazine. In this week’s episode we have a look at yet another super hero movie parody. This time it’s MAD‘s spoof of “The Dark Knight”, written by my CLAPTRAP cohort Desmond Devlin and first appearing in MAD #495, Aug 2008.

It’s no secret I am a big fan of Batman, so getting to do the art for the spoofs of the Christopher Nolan films was a treat for me.

This parody also happens to include one of my all-time favorite Desmond gags. It’s just a silly reference to another of Heath Ledger‘s films and happenstance that Maggie Gyllenhaal is in this movie, but it makes me laugh every time I read it.:

That’s my brother-in-law Joe as the cop pointing to Cookie Monster on the TV in panel 2 above.

This was two issues in a row with me doing the art for a superhero movie parody, and my seventh comic book movie spoof. I’d go on to do a total of 15 comic-book superhero film parodies, and one TV show (“Heroes”). That’s a lot of capes! Too bad that’s the end of my doing movie parodies of Batman films for MAD magazine… or is it?!?

Toon in next week when we see me take a break from multiple page features (and decent paychecks) with a spot illustration for the Fundalini Pages!