Jumping back through time, and back into the magazines, I'm going to continue just reading the comics in these issues right now.
This one was a bit tough to get through. The main comics feature, an insert like the "Son 'o God" comics, was called "Heil Love," and took the form of a 60s romance comic telling the story of Eva Braun and Adolf Hitler.
There was a time that we could mock the Nazis, to a certain extent, and that was a time when the relatively insulated world of Western media thought that Nazis were a thing of the past. There's a naive hope evident in any of these kinds of media pieces (thinking here of The Whitest Kids U'Know's "Triumph of the Ill") that, really, this is a form of thought that we'll never see again, a sad, embarrassing moment of the human race's past.
Guess not.
There were a couple of photo features in here, one supposedly written in Spanish, but as if the writer had only a very, very basic knowledge of the language. Uncomfortably racist in the same way as the Hitler comic, really. I know this is all meant to be irony, and gonzo humour, but it's a bit hard to take in our current day and age.
That aside, the Wilson, Bode, Flenniken, et al. comics were amazing as usual. I look forward to seeing what other really and truly bizarre things the Lampoon throws at me next.
"Los dos hombres gladiola mortal."
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