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  • Matt Manser
    1

    Matt Manser is a writer/comedian based in Los Angeles.  He is the head writer for "Big News," a weekly topical sketch show at IO West, writes sketches for shows at the UCB Theater, and writes videos for UCBComedy.com.  Oh, and he has also written for CMT's "Trick My Truck."

  • Snuffy Johnson
    2

    Snuffy Johnson was born the son of poor parents in Queens, then opened a chain of dry-cleaning stores on the East side of Manhattan.  He has been married to his wife Weezy for almost thirty years, and they have a son, Lionel, who disappointed him by marrying the daughter of the honky next door.

  • Worm Miller
    3

    In 1957, Worm tragically drowned at camp while counselors were inconsiderately having sex. Or so everyone thought. Ambiguously undead, Worm vengefully returned decades later and has been happily killing sexy idiots ever since. He's fought Corey Feldman and Freddy Krueger and gone into space. He hopes someday to fight Michael Meyers and a Predator.

  • LIVING THE DREAM
    I, WHORE: A BEGINNER’S GUIDE TO SELLING OUT (NSFW)
    23 October 2008 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Antonina
    From the screenwriter of the Dorm Daze series...
  • THUG LIFE
    OLD PEOPLE ARE STONED
    16 April 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Sean Wilkin
    At least now my grandparents and I have something in common.
  • HIP TODAY GONE TOMORROW
    SINCERITY IS THE NEW BLACK
    23 March 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Mathiole
    Being ironic isn't ironic anymore.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    BEAUTY IS A TALENT
    18 February 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Janusz Miller
    That makes Lindsey Lohan completely talentless.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    BOOZE VS. WEED
    15 May 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Edwin Servaas
    A scientific comparison...
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    THE SOBERING REALITY OF BEING SOBER
    30 April 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: R. Zbrzezny
    Did life used to suck this bad when we were children?
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    HORSE FARTS
    29 January 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Óscar Sánchez
    Alright Producers, no more horsing around.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    HOT GIRLS LOVE TACO BELL
    26 February 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Serena Larsen
    Since when did Taco Bell become hot chick Mecca?
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    WHO WANTS SHOTS???
    28 April 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Yafet
    Everyone I say wants shots. That's who.
  • THUG LIFE
    I AM A CRIMINAL
    05 May 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Balázs Szabó
    Sometimes I forget. But I totally am.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    ROM COM REALITY BOMB
    10 February 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Emma Hartvig
    Being forced to see that rom-com was definitely not worth the blowie.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    WANNA BUY A TIGER?
    05 March 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: M. Sell
    Why is it always useless crap that is sold on the street?
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    THE DRUNK DRIVER’S LICENSE
    09 December 2008 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Xanado
    Every LA driver should be able to apply for one.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    I AM TECHNOLOGY’S BITCH
    20 March 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Eduardo Nora
    How did anyone ever remember phone numbers?
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    GOING POSTAL
    12 March 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Mark Noke
    Who ever thought the U.S. Postal system could turn out to be evil?
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    WIN A FREE TRIP WITH SCREENWRITING
    13 January 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Mathiole
    Ask me how!
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    CONVERSING WITH ACTORS
    03 February 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: András Jókúti
    It provides endless entertainment at parties.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    I DON’T HAVE YOUR BACK
    09 March 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Christ Off
    Well, unless you're sticking up for me.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    GAME OF LIFE: 2009 EDITION
    17 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Jordan Monsell
    I don't think you could get the clap in the original version.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    APPLYING HISTORY CLASS TO DATING
    25 May 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Sean Metcalf
    FInd out the true perils of a Russian Front.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    SCI-FI SUPERFAN REFERENCE MANUAL
    26 March 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: David Hwang
    Live long and use the force so the smoke monster won't get you.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    AVATAR DANCES IN FERNGULLY’S DUNE
    17 February 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: David Hwang
    ....with Pocahontas.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    WHAT’S YOUR MUTANT SUPER POWER?
    04 June 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Apachennov
    It's like the TV show Heroes but in real life.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    THE 90’S KILLED MY SEXUAL GROWTH
    11 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Sara Leszczynska
    Dude, are you being sarcastic? I don't even know anymore.
  • SPLOOGED
    I LOVE CONDOMS
    02 September 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Ivan Uralsky
    It's like a sex merit badge...until I throw it in the trash.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    MOVIE NUDITY THAT CHANGED MY LIFE (NSFW?)
    03 February 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Gabriele Chiapparini
    A tribute to "80's tits."
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    WHAT KIND OF DRUG ARE YOU?
    11 March 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Kitty Cattrall
    You can never have too any drug charts.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    5 WORST WAYS TO BREAK UP WITH SOMEONE
    27 November 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Alisha Amirkhanian
    Yes, we've used all of these methods.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    WHAT I’VE LEARNED FROM 80’S CARTOONS
    02 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    We all know He-Man was gay. But Uncle Scrooge?
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    YOUR CHILDHOOD GONE ADULT
    14 January 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Gerbils just ain't what they used to be.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    YOUR GUIDE TO PARTIES
    24 March 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: David Hwang
    We use the term party very loosely.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    DOES ANUSDRILL MEAN I’M OLD?
    05 March 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Mehmet Turgut
    If you thought we were sophomoric before...
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    WHAT VAMPIRES WOULD REALLY BE LIKE
    15 March 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Jordan Monsell
    Probably the last people you'd wanna date.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    VIDEO GAME SPEED DATING
    26 February 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Jordan Monsell
    You know we were gonna go there.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    YOUR KIDS ARE TOO FAT
    17 September 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Mel Stringer
    If your kids were captured like Hansel and Gretel, the old woman could eat them straight away.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    A SIMPLE GUIDE FOR PET LOVERS
    05 February 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: truck
    OK, so it's not really a guide.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    BREAKING DOWN THE BADASSES
    23 October 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Doug Chang
    Hopefully, this will get us less death threats than yesterday's post.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    SUPERHERO SPEED DATING
    12 October 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Jordan Monsell
    How women would really react to superheroes.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    PLEASE SHUT UP ABOUT…
    30 April 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: cogac
    A good old fashioned rant.
  • THUG LIFE
    THE STUPIDEST THINGS I’VE BEEN BUSTED FOR
    30 September 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Tamas Olejnik; Model: Ana
    And these are just what I've been busted for. There are plenty more stupid things I've done.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    MOVIE VILLAIN SPEED DATING
    04 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Jordan Monsell
    Go see Transylmania tonight! Written by our very own Worm Miller.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    CINEMA’S GREATEST PUKING SCENES
    24 November 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: MILKBBI (justin wallis)
    In preperation for a big Thanksgiving Dinner, we give you...
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    THE HIGHS AND LOWS OF MALE DEVELOPMENT
    10 July 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    And you thought teenage girls were unstable?
  • SPLOOGED
    MY GROSSEST AMSTERDAM STORY
    10 June 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Manuel Rebollo
    Try and top it.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    KNOW YOUR TROLLS
    20 May 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: David Hwang
    Lest ye be troll'd.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    TRANSFORMERS 2 STORY MEETING
    14 July 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Torri Garcia
    This transcript was provided to us by one of Transformers 2's writers.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    MY FIRST ABORTION
    13 March 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Viesturs Links
    The first time is always awkward. Even for the guy.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    HACK DIRECTORS VENN DIAGRAM
    22 July 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Doug Chang
    Quantifiable proof they suck.
  • ALL FOR ROFL
    THE VIDEO GAMER’S REFERENCE MANUAL
    23 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Leah Crouthamel
    I haven't left the house in two weeks thanks to Dragon Age.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    5 STAGES OF EVERYDAY GRIEF
    14 August 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Kitty Cattrall
    Because fast food binges happen a lot more than deaths.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    REBELLING TOWARD CHRISTIANITY
    17 March 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Maria Thulin
    Take that, mom and dad!
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    WE MUST STOP DEFAMING DICK SUCKING
    23 February 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Myles Edwin
    Guys, it's for our own good.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    THE FIVE STAGES OF YOUR LIFE
    26 June 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Marek Haiduk
    Because life needs to be depressingly broken down.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    FILM SETS ARE LIKE SUMMER CAMP
    24 June 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Hrystia Kaminska
    Except in Hollywood, you'll get way past 2nd base.
  • MADATOMS PERSONALS
    GUIDE TO MEETING WOMEN BY LOCATION
    22 January 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Liva Rutmane
    This chart is guaranteed to get you laid.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    EVERYONE LOVES RACIST JOKES
    18 June 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Iaian Greenson
    Well, at least all white people do.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    I HATE THE MOVIE CRASH
    02 June 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Sean Metcalf
    Yet it's been #1 on Netflix for years! WHY?
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    DRUNK’D: THANKSGIVING IN CHICAGO
    29 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Davy Jourget
    What happens when you spend Thanksgiving with friends...
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    THE TERRIBLE TRUE MEANINGS OF FAIRY TALES
    08 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Alberto Polo Iañez
    Shocking revelations within!
  • THUG LIFE
    BOYS LOVE BREAKING THINGS
    10 August 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Ewa Szau
    Before we discover beer or women, we discover the joys of petty destruction.
  • LIVING THE DREAM
    LITTLE GIRLS: MORE DISGUSTING THAN YOU KNOW
    11 November 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Josh House
    I was once a middle school janitor...
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    BREAKING DOWN THE BADASSES, VOL. 2
    20 November 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Edwin Servaas
    Chuck Norris was excluded on purpose. Fuck that guy.
  • LA SURVIVAL GUIDE
    JIMMY CARTER RUINED YOUR LUNCH
    15 December 2009 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Sean Metcalf
    If it's noon and you're sober, blame him.
  • DEVELOPMENT HELL
    INCEPTION OF SCROOGE’S PAPRIKA DREAMSCAPE
    17 August 2010 / Writer: Worm Miller / Artist: Doug Chang
    ...in The Cell.
  • Clem Rorsch
    4

    Clem Rorsch aka Ryan Sandoval is a writer and comedian based in Los Angeles, with articles published in Hustler, Slap Skateboard Magazine, and Surf Shot Digital Magazine, for which he also acts as copy editor. He contributes regularly to Mad Atoms, and writes and directs videos for the online sketch collective weaknights.com

  • Hillel Aron
    5

    Hillel enjoys playing racquetball, eating steak, and reading about the American civil war. You can follow him on the twitter, or find him on the facebook and tell him how funny he is.

  • Becky Bain
    6

    Becky likes to scuba dive, sky dive, make movies, drink fancy wine and travel. But all of those hobbies are pretty expensive, so she usually just sticks to writing. Words are cheap.

  • Katie Ward
    7

    Katie F. Ward has lived in a bunch of places so, she roots for several different football teams and has a ranking system only she can understand. She tries to eat organic food, but hasn't ruled out Restylane. She loves Jay-Z, Jeff Buckley, and Celine Dion equally. Oh, and she's a hott mess. Seriously.

  • Kirk Pynchon
    8

    Kirk Pynchon was born a poor black child. He enjoys skinny-skiing and going to bullfights on acid. He also listens to Tito Puente albums until four in the morning.  In his spare time Kirk enjoys ripping off lines from movies and pretending they are his own.

  • Bob Schriner
    9

    Stories of Bob Schriner conjure images of a man whose pranks and scams are a blend of crime, audacity and high comedy. For years people debated whether he was a fictional character. MadAtoms has found him and given him a safe house in the Hollywood hills.

  • Alex D. Reid
    10

    Alex D. Reid flosses every night and likes reading about serial killers.  Contact him here.