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| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs. Spy Antonio Prohias, Bob Clarke, Don Edwing, Nick Meglin, 1989 That deranged duo determined to destroy diplomacy is at it again in this diabolically dumb dossier! Join in the fun as MAD fans rush to shelves to spy out the latest in hilarious reading. |
| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs Spy Antonio Prohias, 2009 Don't Go Stir Crazy! Break Out of the Doldrums! Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity! locks up a collection of crazy clashes between those two bumbling MAD Spies! Spy vs. Spy was the brainchild of Cuban-born political cartoonist Antonio Prohias, who fled his country after receiving death threats from Fidel Castro. Prohias settled in America, and in 1960 he began a 26-year run of Spy misadventures in MAD Magazine. This book by Prohias, long out of print, showcases his genius as an artist, storyteller, and graphic designer. |
| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs. Spy Ronald Kessler, 1988 |
| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs Spy Antonio Prohias, 2011-11-01 Since the 1960s, 'Spy vs. Spy' has been one of the most popular features of MAD Magazine. The diabolical duo of double-crosses and deceit (one dressed in black, the other in white) have continued to one-up each other - till death do they part. Now, their original exploits are collected in hardcover. |
| mad magazine spy: Totally MAD The Editors Of Mad Magazine, 2012-10-30 For the past six decades (that's 60 years-we did the math so you don't have to) MAD Magazine has keenly observed the American landscape and promptly made fun of everything in sight. Unwavering in their commitment to high quality stupidity, MAD's legendary artists and writers, long known as The Usual Gang of Idiots, have brilliantly satirized politics, celebrities, sports, media, cultural trends, and more. Totally MAD (originally titled The New American Cookbook until cooler heads prevailed) is the ultimate collection of MAD's most idiotic material, including such classics as Spy vs. Spy, The MAD Fold-in, A MAD Look At..., The Lighter Side of, Horrifying Clichés and The Shadow Knows, plus modern MAD classics including The MAD Strip Club and The Fundalini Pages. Whether you grew up with MAD in the 50s, 60s, or 70s, reading it with a flashlight under the covers so your parents wouldn't catch you, or in the 80s, 90s and beyond, reading it while watching the MADtv sketch comedy show or the more recent animated series on the Cartoon Network, this book will bring back fond memories and also provide a great introduction to MAD for new readers. Then again, maybe not. SPECIAL BONUS! Includes The Soul of MAD, 12 classic cover prints, ten featuring Alfred E. Neuman, MAD's gap-toothed grinning idiot mascot. These beautiful reproductions are suitable for framing or wrapping fish. |
| mad magazine spy: Theo and the Blue Note Peter Kuper, 2006 Theo the cat has learned to play only one blue note on his saxophone, but when a magical rocket ship carries him to the moon, he joins Charlie Porker, Nat King Cobra, Duck Ellington, and other great jazz musicians in a jam session. |
| mad magazine spy: MAD Magazine (2018-) #1 Various, 2018-04-18 In our first issue since #550, we serve up a fresh helping of funny for spring! Don’t miss it! |
| mad magazine spy: Seeing MAD Judith Yaross Lee, John Bird, 2020-11-16 “Seeing Mad” is an illustrated volume of scholarly essays about the popular and influential humor magazine Mad, with topics ranging across its 65-year history—up to last summer’s downsizing announcement that Mad will publish less new material and will be sold only in comic book shops. Mad magazine stands near the heart of post-WWII American humor, but at the periphery in scholarly recognition from American cultural historians, including humor specialists. This book fills that gap, with perceptive, informed, engaging, but also funny essays by a variety of scholars. The chapters, written by experts on humor, comics, and popular culture, cover the genesis of Mad; its editors and prominent contributors; its regular features and departments and standout examples of their contents; perspectives on its cultural and political significance; and its enduring legacy in American culture. |
| mad magazine spy: MAD Presents: Spy Vs. Spy - The Top Secret Files! Various, 2011-11-22 Spy vs. Spy' has been one of the most popular features in MAD Magazine. The diabolical duo of double-crosses and deceit (one dressed in black, the other in white) have continued to one-up each other until death do they part. This new edition of Spy Vs. Spy spotlights the work of Peter Kuper who continues the series following the death of Antonio Prohías, the original creator. |
| mad magazine spy: Inside MAD The Editors Of Mad Magazine, 2013-10-29 Go Inside MAD! It has long been assumed that anyone who wasted their formative years reading MAD must have wound up as a complete failure in life. But as it turns out, some readers actually went on to be...successful! For the first time ever, MAD asked some of these successful readers to share what reading (and appearing in) MAD meant to them. What they have to say may surprise you! Featuring essays with nouns, verbs, and punctuation by: Roseanne Barr Ken Burns Dane Cook Paul Feig Whoopi Goldberg Harry Hamlin Tony Hawk Ice-T Penn Jillette George Lopez David Lynch Todd McFarlane Jeff Probst John Slattery John Stamos Pendleton Ward Matthew Weiner But wait-there's more! (Regrettably.) MAD asked some of the aforementioned complete failures in life (MAD's editors, writers and artists to share their all-time favorite MAD articles. What they have to say will definitely disappoint you! Featuring the moronic mumblings of: Sergio Aragones Tom Bunk Tim Carvell Paul Coker Jack Davis Dick DeBartolo Desmond Devlin Mort Drucker Mark Fredrickson Drew Friedman Frank Jacobs Al Jaffee Peter Kuper Tom Richmond And many more! Plus, inside: a never-before-reprinted Alfred E. Neuman pop art poster! And, an all new fold-out poster: a specially commissioned look at the legendary MAD offices by Sergio Aragones! |
| mad magazine spy: Mad about the Fifties Usual Gang of Idiots, 2005 Presents a humorous look at the decade of the 1950s. Contains satires and parodies of television, film, and popular culture, including Star Trek, Batman, Spy vs. spy, and more. |
| mad magazine spy: Mini Posters American Girl Editorial Staff, 2004-03 |
| mad magazine spy: Mad Spy Vs Spy Danger! Intrigue! Stupidity! Antonio Prohias, 2009-09-21 These books celebrate both the famous MAD magazine cartoon and its Cuban-exile creator--showcasing the author's genius as an artist, storyteller, and graphic designer--and revive episodes that have been lost to the public for more than four decades. |
| mad magazine spy: Amazingly Stupid MAD Usual Gang of Idiots, Usual Gang of Idiots Staff, 2012 Love MAD on Cartoon Network? You'll love this new MAD collection - no television needed! See why having a Super Hero for a neighbor isn't so great! Survive diabolical episodes of Spy vs. Spy! Experience water parks through the twisted brain of Sergio Aragones. Plus, truly terrible Wii games, cartoons with giant frogs, and a summer's worth of comics and craziness! |
| mad magazine spy: Mad Frank Jacobs, 2000 Celebrates the 400th issue of the satire magazine with reproductions of the magazine's best covers created by artists such as Norman Mingo, Kelly Freas, Richard Williams, and Mort Drucker. |
| mad magazine spy: The Big Blast Michael Lister, 2016-06-01 |
| mad magazine spy: The Completely Mad Don Martin Don Martin, 1974 |
| mad magazine spy: Spy vs. Spy MAD Magazine, 2010-09-28 Direct from the pages of MAD Magazine, Spy vs. Spy is the visual embodiment of conflict and one-upmanship. Two extremely similar yet opposing spies work to get the best of the other with creative schemes and feats of espionage. Included in the kit are 2 spy figurines and a 32- page book of the best Spy vs. Spy comic strips from MAD Magazine that inspires readers to create their own adventures with their spies. |
| mad magazine spy: MAD Spy vs Spy: An Explosive Celebration The Editors Of Mad Magazine, 2015-10-06 MAD Magazine's iconic Spy vs Spy comic strip--now in full color! One of the most celebrated comic strips in MAD's history has a deceptively simple concept: twin spies, one clad in black and the other in white, outdoing each other in elaborately stupid plots to achieve the other's demise. Now, for the first time, MAD presents a new Spy vs Spy anthology celebrating 150 classic adventures in blazing full color. Bonus material created exclusively for this collection includes a foreword by superfan Lewis Black, Sergio Aragonés' illustrated memoir of the Spies' creator, Antonio Prohias, an ode to master cartoonist Peter Kuper, and new interpretations of the Spy characters by 15 acclaimed graphic artists: Orlando Arocena, Peter Bagge, Tom Bunk, André Carrilho, Darwyn Cooke, Evan Dorkin, Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez, Jim Lee, Hermann Mejia, Tony Millionaire, Nathan Sawaya, Yuko Shimizu, Bill Sienkiewicz, Bob Staake, and Rich Webber. Additional special features include dynamic charts and graphs to deconstruct and quantify which spy has won the most through the comic strip's volatile history, the most popular weapons and ploys used in the strip, means of death, and more, plus a beautifully printed endpaper featuring David Anson Russo's interactive maze, where readers can play as either white or black spy. |
| mad magazine spy: Planet Tad Tim Carvell, 2012-05-08 Twelve-year-old Tad is a blogger with a plan, in the book Jon Stewart calls hilarious to anyone who ever went through, is currently in, might go to, or flunked out of middle school. Tad has an agenda: Survive seventh grade. He also wants to: grow a mustache, get girls to notice him, and do a kickflip on his skateboard. But those are not the main reasons he started a blog. Tad just has a lot of important thoughts he wants to share with the world, like: Here is the first thing I have learned about having a dog in your house: Don't feed them nachos. Not ever. This highly illustrated and hilarious book is by the Emmy® Award-winning former head writer of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and is based on a column in MAD Magazine. Through a series of daily entries, readers are treated to a year in Tad's blog that will leave them in stitches. MAD Magazine and all related characters and elements are trademarks of and © E.C. Publications. (s14) |
| mad magazine spy: MAD about the Sixties MAD Magazine, Usual Gang of Idiots, 1995 An illustrated compilation of humor published in the 1960s in the popular magazine includes movie parodies, political satire, memorable MAD covers, and classic features |
| mad magazine spy: Mad Magazine Poster Book John Ficarra, 2008 |
| mad magazine spy: Mad Spy Vs Spy Antonio Prohias, 2009-09-21 These books celebrate both the famous MAD magazine cartoon and its Cuban-exile creator--showcasing the author's genius as an artist, storyteller, and graphic designer--and revive episodes that have been lost to the public for more than four decades. |
| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs. Spy 2 David Shayne, 2007-10 Black versus white. Yin versus yang. Good versus...wait, they' re both evil. Or are they both good? Discuss. Everyone knows and loves Spy vs. Spy, the two MADmagazine spies locked in eternal, existential battle. In the rich tradition of Spy vs. Spy oneupsmanship, Spy vs. Spy 2- The Joke and Dagger Filesis the follow-up to Spy vs. Spy- The Complete Casebook. This full-color sequel (only the spies are still black and white) takes up where the first volume left off and includes a foreword by J.J. Abrams, 230 Spy strips by Spy artist Peter Kuper, 56 Spy strips by Bob Clarke, 85 Spy strips and Sunday newspaper strips by Dave Manak, and material from the popular Spy Mountain Dew commercials, MAD TVspots, and MAD Kids Spy vs. Spy Jr. More colorful than the Casebook, even ore packed with international intrigue, this is the one spy book to buy when you've already got the first one on your bookshelf. |
| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs. Spy Antonio Prohias, 2001 Collects the original adventures of Spy vs. Spy as well as interviews with the creator, Prohias's Sinister Man cartoons, and a catalog of Spy collectibles. |
| mad magazine spy: The Mad Archives The Usual Gang of Idiots, 2012-11-13 This second volume collecting the early issues of MAD featuresclassic material from issues #7-12, including Shermlock Sholmes, DraggedNet, and Little Orphan Melvin! |
| mad magazine spy: John Le Carré and the Cold War Toby Manning, 2018 John le Carré and the Cold War explores the historical contexts and political implications of le Carré's major Cold-War novels. The first in-depth study of le Carré this century, this book analyses his work in light of key topics in 20th-century history, including containment of Communism, decolonization, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban missile crisis, the Cambridge spy-ring, the Vietnam War, the 70s oil crisis and Thatcherism. Examining The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (1963), Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1974), Smiley's People (1979) and other novels, this book offers an illuminating picture of Cold-War Britain, while situating le Carré's work alongside that of George Orwell, Graham Greene and Ian Fleming. Providing a valuable contribution to contemporary understandings of both British spy fiction and post-war fiction, Toby Manning challenges the critical consensus to reveal a considerably less radical writer than is conventionally presented. |
| mad magazine spy: Mad Art Mark Evanier, 2002 A fiftieth anniversary tribute to MAD Magazine celebrates famous cartoon figures from its Usual Gang of Idiots, in a volume that features rare sketches and interviews with veteran MAD artists and writers. Original. |
| mad magazine spy: The Sincerest Form of Parody John Benson, 2025-04-29 A collection of the best of Mad-inspired comics in a single, outrageously funny volume -- now in a new and improved printing with an oversized format! |
| mad magazine spy: Ant-Man , 2012-07-11 Legendary writer Tom DeFalco (Amazing Spider-Man) and acclaimed artist Horacio Domingues (Fantastic Four: True Story) bring you the origins of the original Avenger, Ant-Man! Hank Pym has had a life full of adventure and success, failure and humiliation! Known by a variety of names like Ant Man, Giant-Man, Goliath and Yellow Jacket, he's been an innovative scientist, a famed super-hero, an abusive spouse and more! What demons drive a man like Hank Pym? How did he begin his career as a super-hero? ANT MAN SEASON tells the story of the man behind the myth and reveals the fears and paranoia that propelled him to greatest heights and the darkest depths! |
| mad magazine spy: A Medieval Tale Brian Pulido, 2003-10 Into the darkness of a medieval world comes the ghost-haired woman bearing the sword of vengeance--Lady Death. This popular comic book series has been re-created as a Young Adult sword and sorcery fantasy, where Lady Death is caught in a war between humanity and the Eldritch races. |
| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs Spy Antonio Prohias, 2009 A series of short stories about the battle between the Black Spy and the White Spy. |
| mad magazine spy: Spy Vs. Spy Omnibus Antonio Prohias, 2011 Contains material previously published as Spy v. spy: the complete casebook, c2001, E.C. Publications--T.p. verso. |
| mad magazine spy: American Political Humor Jody C. Baumgartner, 2019-10-07 This two-volume set surveys the profound impact of political humor and satire on American culture and politics over the years, paying special attention to the explosion of political humor in today's wide-ranging and turbulent media environment. Historically, there has been a tendency to regard political satire and humor as a sideshow to the wider world of American politics—entertaining and sometimes insightful, but ultimately only of modest interest to students and others surveying the trajectory of American politics and culture. This set documents just how mistaken that assumption is. By examining political humor and satire throughout US history, these volumes not only illustrate how expressions of political satire and humor reflect changes in American attitudes about presidents, parties, and issues but also how satirists, comedians, cartoonists, and filmmakers have helped to shape popular attitudes about landmark historical events, major American institutions and movements, and the nation's political leaders and cultural giants. Finally, this work examines how today's brand of political humor may be more influential than ever before in shaping American attitudes about the nation in which we live. |
| mad magazine spy: Billboard , 1985-01-12 In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends. |
| mad magazine spy: BOOM! SPLAT! Jim Coby, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, 2024-03-11 Contributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Álvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, Vincent Haddad, Kaleb Knoblauch, Christina M. Knopf, Leah Milne, Jacob Murel, Priyanka Tripathi, and Steven S. Vrooman In 1954, the culture, distribution, and content of comics forever changed. Long a mainstay of America’s reading diet, comic books began to fall under the scrutiny of parent groups, church leaders, and politicians. The bright colors and cheaply printed pulp pages of comic books that had once provided an escape were suddenly presumed to house something lascivious, insidious, and morally corrosive. While anxieties about representations of violence in comics have largely fallen to the wayside since the moral panic of the 1950s, thematic and symbolic visual depictions of violence remain central to the comics form. BOOM! SPLAT! Comics and Violence examines violence in every iteration—physical violence enacted between people and their environments, formal and structural violence embedded in the comics language itself, representations of historical violence, and ways of reading and seeing violence. BOOM! SPLAT! is composed of fifteen essays from renowned comics scholars and is organized thematically into four sections, including an examination of histories of violence, forms of violence, modes and systems of violence, and political and social violence. Chapters focus on well-known comics and comics creators, such as Steve Ditko, Hulk, X-Men, and the Marvel universe, to newspaper cartoon strips, postwar graphic novels, revolution, civil rights, trauma, #blacklivesmatter, and more. BOOM! SPLAT! serves as a resource to scholars and comics enthusiasts who wish to contemplate and confront the permutations, forms, structures, and discourses of violence that have always animated cartoons. Through this interrogation, our understanding of violence moves beyond the immediately physical and interpersonal into modes of ephemeral, psychological, and ideological violence. Contributors fill critical gaps by offering sustained explorations of the function of manifold violences in the comics language—those seen, felt, and imagined. The essays in this collection are critically necessary for understanding the current and historical role that violence has played in comics and will help recognize how cartooning imbricates, resists, and expands our thinking about and experiences of violence. |
| mad magazine spy: Spies and Holy Wars Reeva Spector Simon, 2010-11-15 Illuminating a powerful intersection between popular culture and global politics, Spies and Holy Wars draws on a sampling of more than eight hundred British and American thrillers that are propelled by the theme of jihad—an Islamic holy war or crusade against the West. Published over the past century, the books in this expansive study encompass spy novels and crime fiction, illustrating new connections between these genres and Western imperialism. Demonstrating the social implications of the popularity of such books, Reeva Spector Simon covers how the Middle Eastern villain evolved from being the malleable victim before World War II to the international, techno-savvy figure in today's crime novels. She explores the impact of James Bond, pulp fiction, and comic books and also analyzes the ways in which world events shaped the genre, particularly in recent years. Worldwide terrorism and economic domination prevail as the most common sources of narrative tension in these works, while military tech novels restored the prestige of the American hero in the wake of post-Vietnam skepticism. Moving beyond stereotypes, Simon examines the relationships between publishing trends, political trends, and popular culture at large—giving voice to the previously unexamined truths that emerge from these provocative page-turners. |
| mad magazine spy: Espionage Kristie Macrakis, 2023-02-28 A concise introduction to the history and methods of espionage, illustrated by spy stories from antiquity to today’s high-tech world. Espionage is one of the most secret of human activities. It is also, as the popularity of spy stories suggests, one of the most intriguing. This book pulls the veil back on the real world of espionage, revealing how spying actually works. In a refreshingly clear, concise manner, Kristie Macrakis guides readers through the shadowy world of espionage, from the language and practice of spycraft to its role in international politics, its bureaucratic underpinnings, and its transformation in light of modern technology. Espionage is a mirror of society and human foibles with the added cloak of secrecy and deception. Accordingly, Espionage traces spying all the way back to antiquity, while also moving beyond traditional accounts of military and diplomatic intelligence to shine a light on industrial espionage and the new techno-spy. As thorough—and thoroughly readable—as it is compact, the book is an ideal introduction to the history and anatomy of espionage. |
| mad magazine spy: Mad , 1993 A collection of adventures starring the white-clothed spy and the black-clothed spy from MAD magazine. Original. |
什么是MAD，AMV，MMD？ - 哔哩哔哩
mad. 含义. mad（マッド-）是利用既存的素材（一般为 动画 或 cg图 ），加以修改，剪接等“二次创作”并配乐而制作成的 向相关作品致敬的影片 。mad并非缩写，其一般作品为一段有关的影 …
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crazy, mad, mental. 这些形容词都表示"发疯的，精神错乱的"之意。 crazy ： 通俗用词，指极度的神经错乱或精神失常，也指对事物的狂势，失去自控能力。 mad ： 语气比crazy正式，但系普 …
MAD
mad建筑事务所由中国建筑师马岩松于2004年创立，并由马岩松、党群、早野洋介领导。 它致力于探寻建筑的未来之路，将东方思想带入建筑实践，创造一种人与自然、天地对话的氛围与意 …
MAD中文(简体)翻译：剑桥词典 - Cambridge Dictionary
be mad for someone/something UK informal to want someone or something very much, or to be very interested in someone or something: Everyone's mad for him and I just don't see the …
Mad - 搜索 词典
必应词典为您提供Mad的释义，美[mæd]，英[mæd]，adj. 狂；(狗等)患狂犬病的；凶猛的；糊涂的； 网络释义： 发疯的；疯狂；疯狂的；
mad 是「生氣」還是「瘋了」？來搞懂 mad 的不同中文意思！ –
be/get mad at + 人 (for doing something) （因為…）對某人很生氣; be/get mad about + 事物 對某事感到很生氣; Angela was mad at her boyfriend for being late for the date. 安琪拉因為她男朋 …
MAD definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
mad, crazy, insane are used to characterize wildly impractical or foolish ideas, actions, etc. mad suggests senselessness and excess: The scheme of buying the bridge was absolutely mad. In …
mad - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jun 8, 2025 · In the United States and Canada, the word mad refers to anger much more often than insanity, but such usage is still considered informal by some speakers and labeled as …
MAD Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MAD is arising from, indicative of, or marked by mental disorder —not used technically. How to use mad in a sentence.
Mad - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
If you're mad about something, you've lost your temper. If you've gone mad , you've lost your mind. Just like it's more common to be angry than to be insane, you're more likely to use mad …
什么是MAD，AMV，MMD？ - 哔哩哔哩
mad. 含义. mad（マッド-）是利用既存的素材（一般为 动画 或 cg图 ），加以修改，剪接等“二次创作”并配乐而制作成的 向相关作品致敬的影片 。mad并非缩写，其一般作品为一段有关的影 …
mad是什么意思_mad的翻译_音标_读音_用法_例句_爱词霸在线词典
crazy, mad, mental. 这些形容词都表示"发疯的，精神错乱的"之意。 crazy ： 通俗用词，指极度的神经错乱或精神失常，也指对事物的狂势，失去自控能力。 mad ： 语气比crazy正式，但系普 …
MAD
mad建筑事务所由中国建筑师马岩松于2004年创立，并由马岩松、党群、早野洋介领导。 它致力于探寻建筑的未来之路，将东方思想带入建筑实践，创造一种人与自然、天地对话的氛围与意 …
MAD中文(简体)翻译：剑桥词典 - Cambridge Dictionary
be mad for someone/something UK informal to want someone or something very much, or to be very interested in someone or something: Everyone's mad for him and I just don't see the …
Mad - 搜索 词典
必应词典为您提供Mad的释义，美[mæd]，英[mæd]，adj. 狂；(狗等)患狂犬病的；凶猛的；糊涂的； 网络释义： 发疯的；疯狂；疯狂的；
mad 是「生氣」還是「瘋了」？來搞懂 mad 的不同中文意思！ –
be/get mad at + 人 (for doing something) （因為…）對某人很生氣; be/get mad about + 事物 對某事感到很生氣; Angela was mad at her boyfriend for being late for the date. 安琪拉因為她男朋 …
MAD definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
mad, crazy, insane are used to characterize wildly impractical or foolish ideas, actions, etc. mad suggests senselessness and excess: The scheme of buying the bridge was absolutely mad. In …
mad - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
Jun 8, 2025 · In the United States and Canada, the word mad refers to anger much more often than insanity, but such usage is still considered informal by some speakers and labeled as …
MAD Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of MAD is arising from, indicative of, or marked by mental disorder —not used technically. How to use mad in a sentence.
Mad - Definition, Meaning & Synonyms - Vocabulary.com
If you're mad about something, you've lost your temper. If you've gone mad , you've lost your mind. Just like it's more common to be angry than to be insane, you're more likely to use mad …
