Nobody Can Eat 50 Eggs #25

Nobody Can Eat 50 Eggs #25 / $? / 20M / [email protected] / http://www.myspace.com/eat50eggs /

Nobody Can Eat 50 Eggs is largely a comic zine. There is one opiece in this issue that is a text-heavy chunk of writing (“How to be a Mad Scientist”), but by and large everything is dealt with in a comic format. The style in which these comics are created is very sixties and seventies MAD-like (Sergio Aragones? I don’t have any issues of MAD floating around here). For those individuals that might be sight handicapped, everything in this issue of the zine is quite large, from the characters in the comics to their text bubbles. The largeness of the constituent pieces in this issue means that there is not too terribly much in the way of material for this issue. However, what is present is fun to read, whether it is poking fun at real life experience (“Check Out Lady”) or going completely over the top into a fantasy land (the aforementioned “How To Be A Mad Scientist”). There is a type of Where’s Waldo meets “spot the differences” in the “Find Page” spread in the middle of this issue; the things to be found are deftly put in the picture, so that finding all the items is quite the challenge. “Do You Know The Way to Amersham?” is the one piece I’d like to see more of in future issues; it is five pages here but there just is a lot more story to tell that the creator just does not get to this time. E-mail the editor and pick this up!

Rating: 7.0/10