Even if it gets through the mail, nobody will find the latest Lampoon any better than its ancestors. It is unusual in conception, but familiar in execution. It is certainly not very funny.

The Poonsters have, for this issue, abandoned the scissors-and-paste technique of magazine production and written some bright new copy. This is all to the good; it is a shame to cut holes in a bunch of perfectly usuable back numbers.

But the copy is not good. The latest Poon is a one-gag magazine; it is a take-off on other college "humor" publications, stressing frat house life on the coed campus of "Harvard U." This may be amusing. But except for some good old two-line jokes and some bad, old (and very funny) dirty cartoons, nothing in the new Poon is really new. The blurred, self-conscious pictures are still there. So are the articles about people named Sam Mortiz and Elmer Rocco and fraternities called A. D. and P. C. Even when it tries, the Poon has trouble writing for a mass market.

Of course, since this is a parody of what the Poon considers an unfunny magazine, it may be intentionally unfunny. If this is true, prospective Poon buyers should turn instead to the Lampoon's source material, which is unintentionally even unfunnier. The Lampoon has lampooned nobody but itself. The Bow Street Aviary has released another turkey.