What's the worst comic you've ever read?

The phrase he used is from reddit. He's a redditor.

You can take off the tin foil hat, chum, it's cutting off the flow of blood to your brain.

It's people repeating a line from Game of Thrones, it's reddit "Le Nerd Culture" normalfag bullshit.

Oh thank God.

some times i still have the nightmares

If Scott Pilgrim is the worst comic book you have read, then you haven't read enough. There are far worse books out there, many of them even more acclaimed than Scott Pilgrim.

That pretty much covers it. As far as recent crop of comics goes, I would also toss in Rat Queens.
I am on the same boat regarding TMNT.

wtf? I remember hearing it in my childhood, there is no way it originates from anything as new as that.

I see this comic whenever I walk past that section at B&N and it's pretty damn prominent. I've wanted to crack it open and induce vomiting but I figured one day it'd come up around here and I could spare myself the pain. What even is it about?

Also so I'm on topic, Champions, nuWasp and America as they're one of the most recent examples of egregious, over the top "we heard the suits are wanting to take us down so maybe if we continue slamming our heads against it they'll realize we should be taken seriously!" And Ozzy and Millie for digital because I hate juvenile characters who act like adults or author mouthpieces. Bonus points for the author being the tranny who wrote Raine Dog

RPG fantasy world adventures with unlikable dykes and cunts with quirky humor.

Fantasy comic set in world inspired by tabletop games. There are parties of adventurers who defend cities, kill monsters, and do other quests. Main characters are a group called Rat Queens, which consists of: atheist cleric, hipster dwarf warrior, bitchy rockabilly elf (later revealed to be half demon) mage, and quirky, randumb hippy halfling thief obsessed with drug and candy. They are of course the most competent group around.
Their adventures consist of having parties, engaging in poorly drawn and thought out fights, being bitches that see nothing wrong with destruction of property that isn't theirs and resorting to violence at the drop of the hat, relationship drama, fucking around, and meeting transgendered orcs. Writer also steals jokes from TV shows while missing their whole points, like the whole Gary joke from Parks and Rec.

I assume the line came from the books before the TV series, how old is the book?

I like D&D themed shit and the idea of a comic where random groups of adventurers are the norm, like there's a market for that, is kinda neat. But everything else you just listed sounds like cancer. Glad I avoid it.

Bombqueen is the probably the worst. It's trying way too hard to be edgy and challenging, and it's just cringeworthy garbage. What makes it really bad is that the creator has some talent. With better ideas or editorial guidance, he could make decent comics. He was actually attempting something, which is what makes his failure striking.

It started off with so much potential, but then quickly turned to shit.

At least some of the monsters were hot.

If we're talking everything I've read, regardless of investment, then I have to echo some of these anons and say it's a toss-up between CURRENT YEAR Hellcat and Squirrel Girl. They're just awful on every level.

If we narrow it down to things that I had some degree of care for, then I'd have to say Halo: Escalation. Just bad art and bad writing all over the place. The established characters were badly misunderstood at best, and completely bastardized at worst. The art occasionally rose to the level of "mediocre" but even then you could see where the artist had just traced assets from the game. The artist couldn't into basic perspective either, and was shit at drawing space armor (you'd think that when hiring someone to draw a Halo comic, "are you shit at drawing space armor?" is the first question that the interviewer would ask).

I'm convinced that if this shit had gone to print back when Bungie was in charge of Halo and didn't have their heads up their asses, people would have been fired for allowing this comic to happen.

Not Scott Pilgrim. At all.

More like, it's encouraging me to draw like shit, but still keep going. Back to your capeshit, faggot.

Also I don't read shit. Besides Scott, all I've read was recommended to me by Holla Forums.
But if webcomics count, I'd say Sinfest.

Bomb Queen

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There are actual DnD, Pathfinder, and WoW comics, but they are mediocre at best.
In general, there is a serious shortage of good fantasy comics in the U.S. Leiber's and Mignola's Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser is one of the rare good ones, but it's closer to Conan than DnD. Main characters are a warrior and a thief who adventure together, and books is a bit more lighthearted than what you would expect from Conan.
Out of more recent titles, Skullkickers is decent. It is set in a world where bands of mercenaries that take care of dangerous jobs are common. It starts with dwarf warrior and musclebound gunslinger taking odd jobs and enjoying cold beer together, but it seems like cast gets bigger later on. I have only read 1st volume, but it's solid so far. However, they have one-off crossover story with Princeless down the line, so who knows how it will turn out. You can read it all online for free on comics' official website.

If you are willing to try manga, Dungeon Meshi is excellent. Story takes place in a cursed and possibly endless dungeon that supports whole economy of adventurer parties that plunder and explore it. Main cast is trying to get through it and resurrect a body of a dead party member, before it is digested by dragon that ate her. Because main group is broke, short on time, and desperate, they decide to feed on dungeon monsters instead of bringing their own food.

Scott Pilgrim made me kinda hate webcomics way before I learned what webcomics actually were (I think I only knew about Oglaf at the time, which is the least worst webcomic imo). Other than that, I'd mention almost everything Image makes, which is like comics for beginners, more or less. They are based off basic ideas and have very big problems to carry them through several issues. It doesn't help that most of the very popular series started off as trial runs destined to last 6 or so episodes but went further and lost their quality along the way (especially Sex Criminals).

All those american guys trying to do manga are in a special kind of cringe hell for me too. That small era was pretty pathetic, and I've always thought Joe Mad was kinda mediocre.

Everybody knows social media sites don't develop certain phrases or keywords they repeat among themselves. This hothead must have lost his composure.

How does that even work?

If I remember correctly the first GOT book came out in the late 90's.

From what I gathered, the atheist part itself is from her not believing that beings people worship are actual gods, but just very powerful monsters role-playing as gods. Her parents are head priests in the "lovercraftian" monster-god cult, so she gets a pass at still being allowed to use the magic. So she is basically trust-fund kid, but with divine magic instead of money.

I'm not familiar with it. Could you elaborate on why it's horrible?

Or better yet, storytime it.

How faithful are the Fafhrd comics to the original novels?

fuck off venomfag.
you're not even subtle anymore.
you were tolerated and now you're just annoying

Haven't read the original books in a long time, but from what I remember Dark Horse's series are basically adapting original stories to the comic book form.

The biggest problem I have with it is that the side characters are actually kind of fun. Like the girl who could rewrite other characters' dialogue or the girl who got super powers when she was close to railroad tracks. But then they all get killed by Bomb Queen because she can never lose.

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You asked for it

Anthing by Mark Millar.

anything by DC tbh

Scott Pilgrim on any format has so far been nothing but reddit and cringe. The Movie, game, and comic is nothing more then shit.

One of the many Marvel Zombies unnecessary spinoff stories.

I don't know why they saw a glorified webcomic as the next big thing

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Come on, guys, this should be a must for threads like this.

That was pretty bad, but overshadowed by Holy Terror!.

Uncle Frank really made poo pants with that one.

God, that was bad. Though it did give us that great panel of Batman saying how much he likes being a terrorist.

I liked DKSA and Holy Terror just because of how fun and over the top they were, as opposed to "OMG ISLAMAPHOBIA" and "WAAAAA WHY ISN'T IT LIKE DKR?" I won't staunchly defend them to the death, but people who tard rage over them need to lighten the fuck up.

It really isn't. Like even if you wanna Punch Islamists in the face and a silly plot about them having an army of suicide bombers, it was a miserable story. Like You wanna feel good. You wanna defeat the guy by just being so badass that he spills his guts. Not through endurance tirturing him and then killing him anyway.

The fuck is wrong with you? You can like something that so bad it's entertaining but to legitimately defend trash if fucking retarded. There is nothing you can see about DKSA and say it's actually good. It's pure trash.

Like I said, lighten the fuck up.

Get some actual taste.

You're right. Tell me what I should enjoy according to your finely tuned sensibilities, oh enlightened comic renaissance man. Also, you missed this bit:

If you have a problem, you have two choices: You can get the fuck over it, or you can not get over it.

Defending them at all or looking down on people actually criticizing the piece of shit for what it is is the problem.

I wasn't really looking down on people for not liking it. After all, there's that old saying, "Opinions are like assholes, everybody has one." If the majority don't like it, that's their thing, and they're welcome to it, but tard raging over someone liking something you don't like is just stupid.

Have you ever loved something so much for so long, only to see it torn apart slowly and gruesomely right in front of you?

That was what it was like getting into comics during the Ultimate line.

ITT: Only people who saw those comics when Linkara showed them.

Now they are fags, too.

The end.

I feel good knowing that I can say, with confidence, I have never seen anything from Linkara besides one storytime of his Lightbringer bullshit.

I only ever saw this guy on /cow/ and even then I didn't go into the thread to learn more.

Try out the Dungeons & Dragons comic book. The one that had the Fell's Five. It was pretty great and oozed what a great campaign with a great group feels like.
Another user suggested Dungeon Meshi, which is also excellent.

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it was Twilight for boys and sold accordingly

why did Captain Underpants or Diary of a Wimpy Kid take off? You just can't predict market trends

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This one is definitely in the running. We gotta see if it can possibly keep up this level of "quality" until cancellation.

We counting webcomics? If so then I'll say concession. God knows why I read it all the way through multiple times.

it was shilled like crazy online back in like 07 or so. I think they were trying to pull a one-two with it and the Big Bang Theory but ended up short.

Wait, was Bomb Queen a satire of 90's edge, or part of it?
In a way, it may have contributed to the death of edgy comics (only for them to be followed up by the current SJW shit instead, what an improvement), as none of them could possibly top it, without just showing zombie Hitler fucking the Queen Mother or some shit.

The funniest thing is: this is all I think about when I see pic related.

Bomb Queen didn't start until 2006.

Not that it's premise was bad in itself , but after a certain point it just took a nose dive into stupidland and never recovered right until it's end

The side characters were generally far more interesting than Bomb Queen. That's how poorly she was written.

Obama is a part of her universe, so it couldn't have taken place in the 90s.

I've only read a little bit while at a local comic shop, but it came off as super retarded and the art work was pretty bad.

Y the Last Man?

If webcomics count, then anything by David "GO FUCK YOURSELF" Willis.

I never read Scott Pilgrim. I only saw the shitty movie and played the game.

Uh… lets see in terms of webcomics, ignoring the obvious ones…
Planet Zebeth chronicles the mental death spiral of a transvestite self insert metroid fan
LICD(Least I Could Do) is a godawful self insertion wish fulfillment webcomic written by a man who cannot draw, and drawn by a man who cannot draw
Twisted Kaiju Theater is literally just a fucked up autist posing and taking pictures of his Godzilla collection. he later added in his underage asian girlfriend as a character. It seriously rivals sonichu in sheer autism.
Megatokyo

I haven't seen that guy in a long time. Last time I read his stuff when I was in middle school. I just assumed it was some awkward comic about Godzilla.

It started out stupid, it got creepy and weird when his self insert character turned into a super sayajin to save his OC underage girlfriend character from I think Yahoo?

Also he created a genre of furry porn so he needs to die on principle.

Well it does have that prerequisite that all terrible webcomics need to transcend from being just horrible to a tier of its own.

The prerequisite is girl dick.

I unironically enjoy Scott Pilgrim

Which genre?

I don't really get why people have such a big problem with this comic, it's just a bunch of stupid shit for the sake of being funny, and there isn't any politics involved from what I've seen.
I'm not saying it's the best (it's definitely got some unfunny cringe moments), but if it's honestly the worst you've read then you clearly haven't read very many comics.

He went full social justice, got into a scuffle with porn artists over trying to own characters they made, closed his echo chamber forum because Gamer Gate and now photoshops Godzillas onto pictures and calls it art

I rad the first collection and never wanted to read more. I don't know if I could pin down why, but the writing, especially the dialogue, set my teeth on edge.

On the opposite end, a comic that was fucking amazing and ended too soon because the author killed himself was 1930s nightmare theater.
dummcomics.com/2008/05/08/kimbos-first-writing-job/

If it wasn't for the wave of casuals and hipsters it brought into comics and vidya, I'd say it was harmless.

I liked it. Most of the symbolism was heavy handed. It used "unreliable narrators" well in slowly revealing Scott was a piece of shit. But, he was revealed to be such an asshole, you didn't want him to succeed after learning certain things.

That was pretty good.

was it suicide? it seems it may have been an accident.

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Indeed.

I kind of view Scott Pilgrim in the same light as the Watchmen. They both brought unique storytelling ideas to the medium, ideas that were subsequently eclipsed by waves of poor imitators copying only the surface elements.

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These books are alright, interesting at best and inoffensive at worst. Although my glasses are a little rose tinted because I read them nearly religiously in high school. Also I'm a leaf and it was nice to see something set in my backyard.

I am thankful I read them because it was my introduction to comic books and graphic novels. Cartoon adaptations notwithstanding I gues

I've never hated a comic so much in my entire life.

I can't help but relate that with ytps.

Oh Christ, I LOVE that one. XD No movement at all, but still gut-bustingly hilarious and accurate sentence mixing!

On that note, it's so nice to see classic YTP gain this nice new following on Holla Forums. ^^ Modern YTP is at kind of an impasse, with very few good original poopers remaining, including EmpLemon (formerly EmperorLemon) and Goop Videos. Hopefully this celebration of the past can help a brighter future blossom for YTP as a whole, yes?

Can you please explain what exactly about that post triggered your redditism?

You call that starting off with so much potential?

I'm honestly surprised anyone on this board takes It Hurts seriously enough to even bother hating it. It's just dumb wacky vulgar nonsense.

For an on-topic post, in terms of webcomics, Dominic Deegan.

IT'S OGRE, user, IT'S ALL OGRE.
YTP has gone the way of YTMND and AYBABTU, it's DEAD. D-E-D DEAD.
Dead like Ska, dead like like tank tops, dead like everything good in this fallen world, like Firefly and Sam Raimi Spider Man films and TISM and Aeon Flux.
FUCK YOU IF I CAN'T HAVE AEON FLUX YOU CAN'T HAVE YOU TUBE POOP! BURN IT ALL DOWN! BURN IT! BURN IT ALL! BURN IT DOWN!

Last good arc was the one with the Japanese gods. It was friggin creepy.

There's cool stuff happening you won't expect, since Gantz has a kinda unusual narrative (more like, it's friggin weird… suddenly vampires, for example). Like Oka, the guy who achieved a super high level and equip, appearing out of nowhere and not being one of the main characters.

Basically, Gantz made you aware that it's not only the main characters doing shit. Unlike most mangos, where the side characters keep saving the main character's ass and you can't even remember their names.

Also

Lying press.

The ultimate line was incredibly hit or miss but was definitely getting better. Ultimatum is the event that made sure that the comic was doomed to fail.

After that everything was shit, except ultimate Spiderman, and even that eventually became shit.

Whenever I hear Ultimate Spiderman, I think of that godawful cartoon.

You never hear anyone really talk about the Watchmen's storytelling techniques. It's always "Muh deep characters".

This. I was massively impressed with the design/ layouts, too. And the story is smart, considering the era. Just didn't age well.

I've read a lot of shitty comics but I have to give the 'worst' slot to Princeless. It's just such a failure from the perspective of story-telling, art, and characters that I can't really excuse naming a different comic.

I will say I'm only considering published works, there've been worse webcomics I'm sure but Princeless is one of those abominations that SOMEONE SOMEWHERE thought was good enough to publish for the general market. Rat Queens takes my second spot I think.

For Webcomics it has to be Dumbing of Age. Questionable Content is bad but every page doesn't have me questioning the sanctity of human life like Dumbing of Age does.

sage to avoid double bump

>>>/reddit/

nice bate

The Unfunnies

Not the worst comic I've ever read but goddamn do I hate this fucking series with a passion.

Everyone talks like a 16 year old, entire issues go by with nothing happening, the main couple are unlikable twats, the robots are fucking dumb and the art is mediocre tripe.

I liked it for a few issues when I was like 16 until my brain finally realized how shit the dialogue was for every single character. It was like seeing Frank Face for the first time again, horrible experience.

Wow I never noticed the layouts especially the Rorshach one. The interchanging colors work ell on it. Never noticed they planned that out.

Same thing happens to Cerebus, although part of that is probably because half the people talking/shitting on it haven't read it.

Reception of the book is more annoying than the comic itself. Everyone was gushing how great and innovative it is, while book did nothing especially creative and wasn't particularly outstanding even in the year it came out. I am convinced that this happened because book came out when many people what used to exclusively read capes, started to jump the ship from Marvel and DC, and Saga was one of the first non-cape books they read.

And why do people go crazy about the book's art? It is competent, but far from very good. It's even amateurish when it comes to perspective. Staples posts superior pieces on her social media accounts and she did far better job with interiors in North 40.

And to think they call Garth Ennis the supreme edgelord of the comics world.

If it didn't age well, it's because the mountains of copy cats put a spotlight on the "lurid" elements of the work at the cost of it's real achievements.

Of course they did. The Watchmen was mostly an experiment to push the boundaries of comic book storytelling.

This is the main issue I have with DC continuously exploiting the Watchmen: There's never any innovation. Shit like Before Watchmen brought absolutely nothing new to the medium.

Blasphemy!

(And besides, if you mention Holy Terror, might as well bring up Pigman.)

At this point, what new things can they bring to the medium, as you put it? There's a comic for just about every genre, and characters for miles.

I'd like to beat Ennis with a horsecock

He means innovations of the actual medium, as in ways to tell the story, not the nature of the story itself. Up until the 70s most innovation in the medium came from emulating cinema through panel composition, but Watchmen was original because it tried weird new shit with panel composition, with the general contents of the book(think those interviews and documents at the end of each issue) and by translating elements seen in actual novels into the medium, recurring visual motifs and things like that. Nowadays the Big Two don't really do anything that interesting, they stick to cinematographic strategies and occasionally they'll do some crazy panel composition that looks cool but doesn't really do much to help tell the story(like the stuff in Sandman Overture).

if counts, then assigned male. Literally worse than sonichu

I'll admit I'm a newfag /m/tard and haven't read much in the way of western comics, but between the movie and the little bit of the comic I read, Scott Pilgrim just strikes me as LOLSOGEEKY pandering. I remember a few years ago when I was in school there were lots of self important hipster kids talking about scott pilgrim like it's rembrandt+citizen kane.

You want to know what I love the most about that chapter? If you pay attention enough, you could have figure out Rosarch identity before the reveal by following the panels and the discussion.

I really like the panels with the original Nite Owl's house being broken in and being beaten to death. The back and forth of him in his youth fighting villains and him getting his shit kicked in by hoodlums was rough.

yep, the movie scene was a bit too heroic, although the shot where the framed picture of the minutemen falls and breaks, fuck that was 10/10 snyder right there

Wow that gives me a better appreciation for Watchmen. I wasn't as into it because people kept copying it and worshipping it but on its own it's pretty good.

It's one of the few comics worthy of being called a graphic novel.

Kill yourself, Val, you shitskin pedophile.

I have no idea what the fuck you're talking about, but maybe you can explain to me what triggered >>835188's fucking autism.

Editorial must've been non-existent for this to get to print.

Anyone with a brain at DC would've scrapped the project after seeing this garbage.

It's more likely that they just gave it a pass because it was written by Miller. His books were selling really well and he had star power, so DC was probably confident in giving him free reign.

The adventures of OP, or how he tried to remain in the closet but failed miserably.

Like half of the Scott Pilgrim characters, right?! OOOooh~

Anything by Boom!

The fuck am I looking at

The first issue of Youngblood: Bloodsport, written by Mark Millar and drawn by Liefeld

There was a 3.5 sourcebook with an atheist divine magic user prestige class. They had a big citadel in the outer planes where they had a machine to steal magic, I think.

Now I wouldn't go that far.

Fuck you, I like their Kong comic.

Is this based off of any King Kong movie in particular or just their own version of King Kong?

It's a prequel explaining why there's a giant gorilla on Skull Island being worshipped by savages. I think it's a tie-in to the new movie that's being made, though I don't know how much the plot actually connects.