I swear man, each new McSweeney's that arrives rachets up the game of packaging chicken. Do you go ahead and break the seal to get at the contents? You know you don't read these things anymore. You just like to hold them. So maybe you just put it on the shelf all pristine and wrapped up?

Whatever. I continue my streak of destructive devaluation with issue 17. Here it is as it arrived. Photographs of the gentle unveiling can be found after the jump.