Spotting a new magazine called “GOOD” on the newsstand, with the ever-dapper John Hodgman on the cover, I was intrigued enough to pick up a copy and read it during a flight over the holidays. I mean, really, how can you turn down a cover quote from Hodgman quipping, “I’m not going to humiliate you with my incredibly large brain.”
I thought it was quite decent for a fledgling publication, not quite all that its lofty aspirations promised but certainly on its way there. The new issue has a detailed list of the top 51 magazines of all time, in enough detail to cover particular periods with certain editors. It’s quite a fun read.
The only real oddity I could find was the lack of inclusion for “The Economist.” Perhaps they consider that a weekly newspaper rather than a magazine?
