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== Other Comics ==
* The artist of ''Minimum Security'' (see below[[So Bad It's Horrible/Newspaper Comics|the Newspaper Comics section]]) collaborated with another author to make ''As the World Burns'', a graphic novel starring the characters from ''Minimum Security'', who rant about how terrible modern society is. The graphic novel ends with a speech about how [[Ludd Was Right|humans should destroy everything and go back to being hunter-gatherers]].
* ''[[Transformers]]'' fans [[Broken Base|disagree on just about everything]], [[Fan Dumb|often violently]]. But nobody has managed to find a fan who would dispute listing these works:
** ''[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/The_Beast_Within The Beast Within]'' is poorly drawn, incoherent, badly written, and completely independent of any known canon. Not even Hasbro acknowledges it. Special mention goes to the Beast, a Dinobots combiner. Fans had been pondering what one would look like for years—the fact that [http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20070710211127/transformers/images/thumb/1/10/Butwhy.gif/413px-Butwhy.gif this] was its canon appearance came off as a slap in the face.
* ''[[The Unfunnies]]'' by [[Mark Millar]]. You know something is wrong when the ads tell you to "leave good taste at the door". The comic tries for [[Refuge in Audacity]] and is obviously trying to balance funny with drama, but fails to be funny and thus misses the refuge. The main villain is a [[Karma Houdini]] who has more depth than any of the other characters. The comic attempts to mix real life photography and a cartoony style to get a [[Roger Rabbit Effect]], but screws that up massively thanks to [[Special Effects Failure]].
** Just in case you need any more convincing, according to some family friends, Mark Millar's wife herself read about six pages and tossed the book at his head.
* Behind the already bad but copied-enough-that-no-one-cares-anymore [[Rob Liefeld]]-esque art of the ''[[Warrior (Comic Book)|Warrior]]'' mini-series lies unheard-of levels of walls and [[Walls of Text]] that contain bad grammar and made-up words used to explain "destrucity", a philosophy of former [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] wrestler [[Ultimate Warrior]], which makes no sense to anyone in the world except him. If you manage to figure out what is being said, then it makes less sense than [[Time Cube]]. Oh, and then there was the Christmas special consisting entirely of pinups, several of which have violent and disturbing imagery. [[The Spoony Experiment|Spoony]] and Linkara [http://atopthefourthwall.com/tag/ultimate-warrior/ teamed to tackle it].
== Artists, Writers, Editors, etc ==
** In one of the Wizard drawing books, he explains the use of reference in drawing comics. Thing is, he showed reasonable ways to do it (using a picture of an ice skater for a drawing of a girl flying), and the comic drawings were different enough from the references for it to be considered ''his'' drawing. Now, he simply traces his reference pictures, and in later drawing books, he flat-out traces. [http://jimsmashextended.blogspot.com/2008/07/greg-land-tracing-swiping-recycling.html You can see some of this here.]
== Newspaper Comics ==
* ''[http://kingfeatures.com/comics/comics-a-z/?id=Between_Friends Between Friends]'' is best described as a [[Lifetime Movie of the Week]] in comic strip form, but without humor, intentional or accidental. It brings [[Wall Banger|Wall Bangers]] by the truckloads whenever it tries to be serious. Nobody [[The Unfair Sex|with a Y chromosome]] escapes unscathed unless they're [[Author Appeal|Viggo Mortensen]] or a [[Mr. Fanservice|reasonable facsimile thereof]]. All the "empowered" women are depicted as insecure [[Does This Make Me Look Fat?]] types who both agonize over buying the low-fat double-whipped frappuccino and pound back the cheesecake like there's no tomorrow; they don't fare well either.
* ''[[Marmaduke (comic strip)|Marmaduke]]'' is repeatedly riffed on, and for good reason; it's just that plain monotonous and ugly. Nearly half of its article on [[The Other Wiki]] discusses just how thoroughly hated it is by comics critics.
* ''[[9 Chickweed Lane]]'': Everyone's a sex-crazed, pretentious asshole, so it's impossible to like anyone except the cat. Homosexuality is handled so badly it manages to insult conservatives and liberals alike — one character quickly breaks up with his boyfriend of several years, dances with a seducing female acquaintance, has sex with her that night, and then swears up and down that he's not interested in women and being gay is just how he is (comparing it to his shoe size). Then he dumps her, she's understandably upset, and he tries to talk to her. Somehow, the readers are supposed to feel ''sorry'' for this guy. And did we mention that the author [[Protection From Editors|has gone through great lengths to silence criticism?]]
* ''[http://comics.com/reply_all/ Reply All]'' doesn't even have the saving grace of a passable artist — it looks like a 5th-Grader's [[MS Paint]] webcomic. Pupils are seen well outside the actual eye, characters' hairstyles make them seem balding, blatant copy-pasting makes the characters appear superimposed upon the backgrounds. Even the jokes are so flatly delivered they become hard to identify. Honestly, do the editors even care?
* ''[http://comics.com/working_it_out/ Working It Out]'' is a comic so violently unfunny that it might accidentally get a pity laugh out of the reader. Most of the [[In Name Only|"jokes"]] consist of [[Incredibly Lame Pun|really, really, really BAD puns]]. Boring, unfunny office "humor" everyone's heard a million time before, and things that kinda seem like they're supposed to be jokes, but aren't. One example is a comic where the boss character is playing with his cell phone with the caption informing us that he likes to fire employees through text messages (and this "joke" was used ''twice'').
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== Political Cartoons ==
* ''[[Counterthink]]'' is a ridiculous mix of PETA and Scientology's most paranoid fantasies. Topics include why spending money on drugs, rather than [[All-Natural Snake Oil|herbal placebos]], is bad; "doctors are incompetent, egotistical butchers"; "[[Science Is Bad|technologies are dangerous]]"; and "chemical additives, including Fluoride, are evil."
* The works of Brazilian artist Carlos Latuff could aptly illustrate the entry for [[Anvilicious]] when the term enters the dictionary, but that trope still doesn't go halfway in describing his cartoons. A primitive [[Black and White Morality|black and white view]] of the world permeates his strips, with the USA and Israel entirely demonized (and literally everything controversial they've ever done attributed to [[Motiveless Malignity]]), virtually everyone who opposes them made out to be a hero despite sometimes being completely different from one another (communists on the left and Islamic fundamentalists on the right are both celebrated), gratuitous amounts of violent imagery are used to reinforce his "points", and his [[Dethroning Moment of Suck]] was his participation in/shameless promotion of a contest held by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad that called on artists to write cartoons about the Holocaust in rebuttal of the infamous Danish cartoon that pictured the prophet Mohammed, allegedly pointing out the [[Double Standards]] of the World in their views of Judaism vs. Islam — [[Sarcasm Mode|because we all know that violating one of the tenets of a religion you don't even practice is a comparable atrocity to trying to kill off everyone who practices that religion!]] Not to mention that Ahmadinejad doesn't even believe in the Holocaust.
** Basically, he's pretty much a rebellious uneducated 12-year-old in the body of a grown man with passable drawing skills.
** He's also said to be ''incredibly'' rude, deleting any comment on his art that doesn't agree with him exactly, including, presumably, people who try to be voices of reason offering constructive criticism. Which is a shame, as he ''has'' drawn some surprisingly heartwarming cartoons advocating peace in the Middle East. It's just that these are lost amid a sea of blood, [[Draco in Leather Pants|leather-pantsing]], and bodily fluids.
* ''The Leftersons!'' is a political themed comic in the vein of ''[[Mallard Fillmore]].'' It somehow manages to be ''both'' more [[Anvilicious]] and less funny than its inspiration. The creator of the comic doesn't seem to understand American Liberalism, and so the strip fails at satire. [[Strawman Political|The characters]] have no personality to speak of. The art is unbelievably boring; many panels, and even layouts for entire strips, are [[Cut and Paste Comic|reused again and again with random background color changes]].
** An example of its failure: the son of this [[Strawman Political]] family is named Stalin and wears a Darwin-fish shirt, and his hair is done in a random-ass [[Totally Radical]] 1980s punk style, which shows you how up to date the author is.
** The wife is named Imelda because, you know, Imelda Marcos was evil and therefore... she was a liberal! [[Critical Research Failure|Haha!!!]]
* Many consider the reactions to the political strips of ''[[Mallard Fillmore]]'' a textbook example of [[Confirmation Bias]]. The problem with that idea is that much of those with similar views (conservatives, especially older ones) don't find the strip funny, either. Those on the opposite side of the political spectrum tend to find the comic blatantly insulting, which is probably the point. Non-political readers just find it joke-free. Check any comics board with a newspaper section and note how many posts on [[Fan Nickname|"The Duck"]] contain the phrase [[Don't Shoot the Message|"I'm a conservative, but..."]]. The comic itself would probably be relegated to right-wing websites and newsletters were it not used as a "counter-balance" for the liberal viewpoints presented in ''[[Doonesbury]]''. It tends to substitute talk radio talking points for punchlines, [[Did Not Do the Research|forgets to do its research]], and it frequently repeats the same "joke" over several strips from slightly different angles. It overuses [[Strawman Political|Straw Liberals]], many of whom are in the regular cast. This is made all the sadder because Bruce Tinsley's occasional non-political strips can be genuinely funny and do show a flair for observational humor. Unfortunately, those strips make up less than 10% of the strip's output. Discussing ''[[Mallard Fillmore]]'' on [[The Comics Curmudgeon]] is now an automatic banning offense.
** It may be redundant to mention, but ''Mallard Fillmore'' also has horribly ugly art which often consists only of [[Floating Head Syndrome|the duck's head shoved into a corner]] by a [[Wall of Text]]. And if it's not ''that,'' you'll often see Mallard splayed out in front of the television with his (thankfully undetailed) crotch on full display.
* ''[[Minimum Security]]'' is filled with terrible artwork and [[The War On Straw|strawmen representing people the artist disagrees with]] — meaning people who eat meat, vote Republican, drive cars, buy things, wear clothes, etc. The artist has since sold out, trying more conventional humor and failing at it. You can still read the old strips online.
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