Night Owl Cards

I am the target audience for the latest version of Wacky Packages -- I am a team collector, I remember the originals -- but I wasn't going to buy any until I found myself in Walmart the other day. At the bare-bones card section, I grabbed a pack of Heritage and looked for something else to go with it. Flagship is out. There was plenty of new Opening Day, but since it looks just like this year's lousy flagship, that was out, too. I even contemplated some 2016 Donruss, but instead grabbed this. If you read the blogs, you know what the deal is here. Topps blended Wacky Packages with MLB products to form a Wacky Baseball set. And although the artwork resembles those familiar, fantastic Wackys of the '60s and '70s, this is strictly Wacky lite. The soul of Wacky Packages -- which is parody, a little satire, and poking fun -- has been removed. I'll show you how. Here is a Wacky Packages card from back in the '70s: It turns a familiar character, the Trik...