So Bad It's Horrible/Comic Books: Difference between revisions

** The [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Beast_Wars_Sourcebook Beast Wars Sourcebook] is also pretty infamous. Terrible layout and ordering, wildly varying art quality (with Frank Milkovich's [http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Image:Silverboltbeastwarssourcebook.jpg take on Silverbolt] being especially infamous), boring writing that reads more like a plot summary of the ''[[Beast Wars]]'' cartoon than a description of the character and purge any non-[[The Chew Toy|Waspinator]] related humor, strange and arbitrary change to the personality of the Japanese characters, and a whole lot of typos and other editing errors. Even more disappointing, considering that the ''[[Transformers Generation 1|Generation 1]]'' and ''[[Transformers Armada|Armada]]'' sourcebooks from the otherwise reviled Dreamwave era are generally considered to be excellent.

* ''Chronos Carnival'' in terms of writing is widely considered to be the worst strip ever run in ''[[2000 AD]]''. Featuring a travelling carnival [[Recycled in Space|in space]] its embittered [[Handicapped Badass]] protagonist raised a few [[Unfortunate Implications]] that were only gotten away with because the artist who drew it was handicapped himself.

* The original ''[[Family Guy]]'' comics from Devil's Due Publishing. Nothing good can happen when you take a show that mostly derives its humor from delivery, timing, and voice acting and adapt it into a medium that has ''none of that''. There is zero attempt to make this in any way comic-like. The panels are just rows of boxes, composed into a vaguely comic-like simulacrum. A joke or conversation will start in the third-to-last panel on one page and end halfway into the next. Everything looks stiff, like someone just took a screen cap of the show. The comic is almost always at 3/4 view, and the artwork is full of blatant cutting and pasting, facial - expressions, poses, even entire panels are copied wholesale. The book only lasted three issues, all three were collected into a TPB lovingly named "The ''Family Guy'' Big Book of Crap." [[Old Shame|Really says something about what the people who worked on it thought of it.]]

* ''[[Incarnate]]'' is a comic written and "drawn" by [[Kiss|Gene Simmons']] son Nick. "Drawn" is written in quotation marks because he allegedly traced and copied most of the art from various manga. In case he gets cleared of that — most of the dialogue is broken and fragmented, and the story is completely incoherent. It's so bad that the company has ceased distribution of the comic because of legal claims from the company that publishes the manga he stole the art from, which, by the way, included ''[[Hellsing]]'', ''[[Deadman Wonderland]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'', ''[[Death Note]]'', ''[[Bleach]]'', and various [[Deviant ART]] pages.

* Antarctic Press' ''[[Robotech]] Sentinels: Rubicon'' was an effort by AP at continuing the long-running ''Sentinels'' comic that was cancelled when they acquired the ''Robotech'' license (and this was after Ben Dunn had said that AP would not continue the Sentinels comic, a [[Take That]] aimed at both the fans [[Armed with Canon|and the former creative team]]). The result had nothing to do with anything that had come before (or after); it instead consisted of a largely incoherent story filled with [[Flat Character|unidentifiable characters]] and a plot that was largely incomprehensible (the most coherent part consisted of a White Light in space destroying random ships accompanied by an "EEEE" sound effect). The artwork was terrible; the half-arsed computer toning effects vanished after the first issue, and two pages of the second issue [[Ashcan Copy|consisted of raw pencils]]. The series was [[Cut Short|canned after two issues of a planned seven]] without resolving anything; many fans considered it a [[Mercy Kill|mercy killing]].