Ad Nauseam: Mad Magazine #418

You can find previous โ€œAd Nauseamโ€s here. Oh no, everyone, itโ€™s Ad Nauseam! Articles in which I gaze back at ancient advertisements of youth, wonder where time has gone, and realize all the vapid gutter trash that was marketed into my tiny malleable eyeballs. Yes, Iโ€™m still doing this.  Sam Raimiโ€™s Summer Blockbuster Spider-man turned …

Ad Nauseam: Star Wars Insider #38

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The mid-nineties represented a reawakening for the Star Wars brand. The trilogy was remastered and released into theaters to coincide with a home video release. Accompanying that, of course, were waves of marketing that made the original release blush. With enough new merchandise to pack a Deathstar and the flannel draped galaxy-master himself, George …

Ad Nauseam: ALF #23 (Mascot Madness!) 

You can find previous "Ad Nauseam"s here. Welcome back to Ad Nauseam: never ending articles inspecting promotions of yesteryear found in between the โ€œBiffโ€s and โ€œPowโ€s of clearance rack comics. Please send help.ย  Tonight we crack open the capitalistic corpse of ALF #23 released December 1989. ALF (Alien Life Form) was a Marvel comic series …