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{{quote|''"I '''hate''' this comic. I hate '''everything''' about this comic! I never want to see it ever again! I don't want to remember that it exists! [[Joe Quesada]]... '''[[Punctuated for Emphasis|You! Are! A! HACK!!!]]"'''''|'''[[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]]''', explaining why he won't review ''[[One More Day]]''.}}

 

 

In some cases, they're ''so'' bad that [[Canon Dis Continuity|their creators refuse to acknowledge them,]] preferring to [[Retcon]] their mistakes out of existence. Those are the ''lucky'' ones.

 

== Marvel ==

* ''Marville'', written by Bill Jemas, was created on a bet between him and [[Peter David]] to see who could write a better selling comic. The problem here is that at the time he worked for Marvel, Jemas was an '''editor'''. And boy, does it show. The book is filled with terrible jokes that feel like they were stolen from a rejected [[Seltzer and Friedberg]] script, ham-fisted political commentary, characters from the mainline Marvel universe showing up just to act out of character and do unfunny things, and tons of mean-spirited digs at DC while Marvel got off Scott-free. Eventually, this fell in favor of what read like a [[Chick Tract]]... as adapted à la [[Shoggoth On the Roof]] by a schizophrenic primary-schooler.<ref> [[Wolverine]] evolved from an otter (because that's how that works) and, through some reason or another, either becomes immortal or gets a long line of [[Identical Grandson|Identical Grandsons]] (the comic can't pick one). In the same issue, Jesus Christ is called "the first superhero".</ref> The last two issues were a recap of the series and a guide on how to submit scripts to a now-defunct comic line. Bonus points for increasingly desperate cover art featuring a red-haired woman (who appeared nowhere in the comic) in various states of undress when Jemas was certain he'd lose. (He did.) Watch Linkara rip it apart [http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2012/01/marville-1.html here].

** Let's not forget the issue that didn't have word balloons. Oh, it had dialog, just not word balloons. Apparently, the artist couldn't be bothered to actually ''put in the word balloons'', leaving them putting the terrible dialog (in script form) in a corner of the panel.

* 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]].

* The sleazy French spy-action series ''SAS'' is already bad; it's like [[James Bond]] without the humor. But the [[Comic Book Adaptation]] tops itself, with ''[[Osama Bin Laden]]'' being presented as a [[Worthy Opponent]]. Sure, the author probably wanted a [[Take That]] against France-bashing post 9/11, but surely there were less stupid ways of doing it.

** The second lowest point was the villain Whateley. He gets a brief mention in ''Dying Inside'', a confusing cameo in ''The Grinning Man'', and a ludicrous connection in ''Dead/Alive''.

* ''[[The Unfunnies (Comic Book)|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]].

 

== Political Cartoons ==

* 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 (Darth Wiki)|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.