Line #46 Horrible/Webcomics


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11	{{Webcomics}} offer a very low barrier of entry, but most humans will not continue to draw something or at least try to improve if people hate it. How do you suppose [[DarthWiki/SoBadItsHorrible these webcomics]] managed to continue onwards despite this? ''Someone'' out there has to like 'em, but we're still looking for those (other than the authors/artists themselves) who'll come forward and admit it.
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13	'''''Important Notes''''':
14	# Merely being offensive in its subject matter is insufficient. Hard as it is to imagine at times, there is a market for all types of deviancy (no matter how small a niche it is). It has to ''fail to appeal even to that niche'' to qualify as this.
15	# A webcomic isn't Horrible just because ''WebVideo/TheWebcomicRelief'', ''Your Webcomic Is Bad and You Should Feel Bad'', or any other CausticCritic reviewed it. There needs to be independent evidence that it's horrible, like an actual professional negative review. Though once it is listed, you're free to link to any detailed review of it.
16	# This page is not for horrible ''chapters'' of otherwise good webcomics. For those, see {{DethroningMoment.Webcomics}}.
17	# To ensure that the work is judged with a clear mind and the hatred isn't just a knee-jerk reaction, as well as to allow opinions to properly form and give the artist a chance to improve, '''[[Administrivia/NoRecentExamplesPlease examples should not be added until at least one month after release]]'''. This includes "sneaking" the entries onto the pages ahead of time by adding them and then just commenting them out.
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19	!!Examples (more-or-less in alphabetical order):
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21	* '''''[[http://angelwarriorcomics.comicgenesis.com/ Angel Warrior Comics]]''''' is a good example of why people hate {{Sprite Comic}}s so much. Like many other examples in the genre, its sprites are simple re-colors, its text is illegible, and its backgrounds clash. It began as a gag strip but then created an incomprehensible story. The author abandoned it in March 2003, to no one's surprise; funnily, the last strip features the author vehemently denying that the webcomic is over and claiming it would be updated in a month or so.
22	* '''''Webcomic/BillyTheHeretic''''' is about a young boy who gets adopted by a "[[GreedyJew rich international Jewish]]" family. As one might expect, it quickly devolves into the kind of thing you'd find on [[Website/FourChan /pol/]] or Stormfront (fittingly, the webpage links to the latter). Every character is an [[StrawCharacter overblown caricature]], even Billy, whom [[DesignatedHero we're intended to like]] but just comes off as a bigoted, ungrateful, spoiled brat. The author claims it's autobiographical (it's not, the work was written by a white surpremacist from Michigan and drawn by an Irish white nationalist) and yet [[BlatantLies insists he's not a Neo-Nazi and doesn't support their ideology]]. The artwork is spectacularly awful -- every character is poorly drawn, and there's no color or [[FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue backgrounds]], making it exceptionally dull to look at. It's considered one of the single worst webcomics on the Internet; in ''Website/{{Cracked}}''[='s=] [[https://www.cracked.com/article_17607_5-circles-baffling-web-comic-hell.html 5 Circles of Baffling Webcomic Hell]], this one gets a special mention at the bottom of the pit.
23	* '''''Webcomic/TheEasyBreather''''' is an AuthorTract against smoking. While a webcomic with an anti-smoking message is not a bad idea per se, the execution is ''really'' weird and off-putting. Amid {{Infodump}}s on the hazards of smoking that read more like a PublicServiceAnnouncement, you have a protagonist who has [[BlowYouAway breath powers]] just because she doesn't smoke and paper-thin villains who [[ForTheEvulz force others to smoke]]. And that's when it ''remembers'' it's an anti-smoking tract; more often than not, all of this is sidelined in favor of the characters getting naked for no reason at all (the author is [[AuthorAppeal apparently a naturist]]). The art is done entirely in Poser with no external assets, dropping it deep into the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]]. In ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17607_the-5-circles-baffling-web-comic-hell.html 5 Circles of Baffling Webcomic Hell]], this one's #10.
24	* '''''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20210820080029/https://www.theduckwebcomics.com/THe_FReCKLeD_FINGeR/ THe FReCKLeD FINGeR]]''''' has a very good, professional art style. However, it is also aggressively unfunny, needlessly offensive, and as spiteful as humanly possible. The bald-faced contempt for all that feels joy is clear in the writing, making every single strip a soul-crushing experience in and of itself. The comic is often described as "''Webcomic/CyanideAndHappiness'' if it took itself ''dead seriously''".
25	* '''''Webcomic/GamerChicks''''' is a webcomic starring Suiren, a hyperactive YaoiFangirl and GamerChick, and Kirei, her snarky [[StraightMan level-headed]] roommate, who discuss video games and have wacky misadventures. Most strips involve Suiren doing three things: ''(1)'' reassuring the viewer that she's "[[GamerChick totally a girl and totally plays video games]]"; ''(2)'' fending off boys who are [[AllMenArePerverts only interested in her "boobies"]]; and ''(3)'' {{shipping}} video game characters [[GuyOnGuyIsHot of the same sex]]. That last one is particularly weird because she obsesses over it to the point of discussing it in casual conversation with complete strangers and shows little respect for or understanding of LGBT dynamics; anyone who brings up how strange this is "[[TheComplainerIsAlwaysWrong must be crazy or stupid]]". Outside of that, the plots range from [[https://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20070512.html pointless]] to [[https://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20061122.html completely pointless]], or else dryly and humorlessly recite [[http://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20070114.html ancient jokes]]. The artwork is horrible; it's a horrific collision of UsefulNotes/MSPaint, [[FeaturelessPlaneOfDisembodiedDialogue empty white backgrounds]], and figures and faces ripped straight out of a bargain-bin "How to Draw Manga" book. It's also frighteningly OffModel, often leaving it unclear what an object is supposed to be -- most infamously, [[https://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20070922.html a crowd of people]] is represented by a single block of CartoonCheese. And it showed little to no improvement in its three-year run, going from [[https://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20060228.html this]] to [[https://gamerchicks.comicgenesis.com/d/20090801.html this]].
26	* '''''Girlz 'n Games''''', like ''Gamer Chicks'', is a webcomic exploring the "comedy" that comes from [[GamerChick girls liking geeky things like video games]]. The jokes are stale, poorly delivered, and unfunny (such as references to ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}''[='=]s [[MemeticMutation cake jokes]] about two years too late). Many jokes are misogynistic; usually, they evoke [[RealWomenDontWearDresses genre snobbery directed at women]], but a few are DomesticAbuse jokes that fail to [[CrossesTheLineTwice cross the line a second time]]. The dialogue is terrible, even when it's not a joke. The art is flat and underwhelming, suffers from GISSyndrome, has OnlySixFaces, and has seen no improvement since the comic first began.
27	* '''''Hathor the Cow Goddess''''' revolves around RealLife naturalist radical feminist Heather Cushman-Dowdee in a cow mask and bottle-nipple hat preaching her views on child-rearing, healthcare, and public as well as long-term breastfeeding. This alone wouldn't necessarily make it a bad webcomic, but the comic only shows tolerance for [[AuthorTract the title character's own views]]. Anyone who advocates for formula feeding, [[ScienceIsBad modern medicine]], or sending their kids to school is {{demoniz\|ation}}ed as an {{abusive parent\|s}}. Cushman-Dowdee later switched over to writing a strip called '''''Mama Is...''''', which is the same thing without the main character wearing a cow mask. Like the previously mentioned ''Billy the Heretic'' and ''The Easy Breather'', it was mentioned in ''Website/{{Cracked}}'''s [[http://www.cracked.com/article_17607_the-5-circles-baffling-web-comic-hell.html 5 Circles of Baffling Webcomic Hell]], where it placed #9.
28	* '''''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20100820150601/http://dir.salon.com/topics/kansas_oflaherty/ Kansas O'Flaherty, Secret Agent]]''''' was a weekly strip for four months on [=Salon.com=]. Every episode was greeted by a string of reader comments complaining about pretentious cultural references, bad artwork, inconsistent lettering, [[RougeAnglesOfSatin occasional misspelled words]], non-sequiturs, and a [[RandomEventsPlot general lack of a coherent plot]]. The strip's few defenders generally explained it as [[TrollFic an experiment in anti-humor designed to provoke strong reactions from readers]].
29	* '''''[[https://lessonsindistraction.comicgenesis.com/d/20070707.html Lessons in Distraction]]''''', by the author of ''Gamer Chicks'', is just as bad and possibly even worse. It's a blatant SelfInsert comic whose protagonist falls in love with an obvious {{Expy}} of [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. It appears to be a desperate effort by the author to garner sympathy for her "dark and depressing" life; this might be why the main character is brutally harassed by the AlphaBitch for no reason. The plot is extremely confusing and hard to follow, with plot elements randomly introduced and then dropped just as quickly (like when the two main characters turn into animal things). The art style is the same as in ''Gamer Chicks'', including the use of CartoonCheese as a stand-in for crowds, but manages to be even worse because it's not even in color; this muddles the actions considerably. The comic stopped updating in August 2008, to the bereavement of nobody.
30	* '''''Webcomic/{{Lightbringer}}''''' [[https://lightbringer.comicgenesis.com/d/20060315.html is a]] story by Creator/LewisLovhaug -- indeed, the same one who became a CausticCritic on his show ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''. He's [[CreatorBacklash very ashamed of it]] (to the point of putting the entire strip and its characters into the PublicDomain), and with good reason. It's a ClicheStorm of comic book stories; the protagonist is an [[Franchise/{{Batman}} orphan whose parents were murdered]], he can [[Franchise/GreenLantern create solid constructs out of light]], his powers [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk sometimes spark when he's angry]], and his costume looks suspiciously like [[https://dcau.fandom.com/wiki/File:Doctor_Light.png Dr. Light's]]. The protagonist starts out as a [[StrawmanPolitical straw pacifist]] who refuses to use his powers because it goes against his philosophy, but when his inaction leads to a woman being attacked, he does a complete 180, swears off pacifism entirely, and becomes a BloodKnight prone to [[AuthorFilibuster huge, preachy monologues]] with stilted and ham-fisted dialogue. In the end, he's bland and UnintentionallyUnsympathetic. The plot is poorly paced and paper-thin, with significant events happening out of nowhere without so much as a HandWave. The art is awful, with distractingly wonky perspectives and proportions and a bad UsefulNotes/MSPaint coloring job; it does improve over time but only reaches a decent level when the guest artists start coming in.
31	* '''''The Loco Bandito''''', by none other than Cinemassacre's Creator/MikeMatei, is [[GrossoutShow disgusting]] and downright racist. There's almost no attempt at humor; it's just graphic {{NSFW}} imagery, JustForFun/{{egregious}} language, ToiletHumor, and ethnic stereotypes. The ''best'' joke of this kind is the Bandito ejaculating on a series of ethnic stereotypes, only to realize he's [[BoomerangBigot an ethnic stereotype himself]] and [[{{Squick}} defecate on his own face]]; anything that has even a chance at working is undone by its disgusting nature. While Cinemassacre productions are no stranger to gross-out humor, the good ones at least have a counterbalance of some kind (''e.g.,'' ''WebVideo/TheAngryVideoGameNerd'' is mostly about reviewing video games). Matei apparently tried to get the comics published, but no one would take him up; he originally claimed that "no one had the balls" to do it but later realized that he just wasn't a good writer, admitting to being inspired by shock artists like Robert Crumb and Johnny Ryan.
32	* '''''[[https://thedailywtf.com/series/Mandatory_Fun_Day.aspx Mandatory Fun Day]]''''' was a comic run on ''Website/TheDailyWTF'' for several weeks. Season 1 featured poor artwork, cut-and-paste characters, anemic writing, and humor so thin you could see through it; it was even colored in an eye-searing UsefulNotes/MSPaint style. The only humor to be found was usually the re-edited strips found in the comments. After some time, the comic's author started acknowledging the best-edited versions of the previous comic in each post, which makes you question his attitude toward the whole thing. Season 2 redeemed it somewhat, but the general distaste and endless mockery toward the comic led to it being removed.
33	* '''''Monster Lover''''' (no relation to the comic by Dumok; this one was made by Albert-Aet) is a {{Hentai}} comic about a CuteMonsterGirl, hosted on the Electronic Hentai Organisation. And among their massive archive of more than 300 comics, this was one of the very few that appealed to absolutely nobody, with a half-star out of five. It's easy to see why; its art style makes even the worst webcomics look like pure genius, and its storyline (such as it was) was very lame.
34	* '''''Moon Over June''''' is an {{NSFW}} SliceOfLife webcomic about two lesbians who live together. They're both incredibly unlikeable and bizarrely militant: Summer is a nurse who [[DoesNotLikeMen hates men so much]] that she resolves to give her newborn up for adoption if it turns out to be male, and Hatsuki is a lesbian pornographer with a strange fixation on Japan-ness, getting into porn because her parents gave her name the wrong Japanese pronunciation (and not getting into ''straight'' porn because it's "too Japanese"). Both [[invoked]][[UnfortunateImplications apparently chose to be lesbians]] and also exhibited some sexist, racist, and transphobic behavior. The comic's ostensibly named after the protagonists' ''daughters'', but we never see much of them; instead, we see a lot of Summer and Hatsuki screwing other women. The art is terrible, with the facial expressions especially deep in the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]]. [[http://womenwriteaboutcomics.com/2016/07/04/april-sex-month-post-moon-june-lot-cis-lesbian-sex/ This article]] summarizes a lot of the problems.
35	* '''''[[https://www.deviantart.com/mylittleschool/gallery/43166367/1st-book My Little School]]''''' (no connection with ''Franchise/MyLittlePony'') would have remained in obscurity had it not been for the fact that the creator frequents the forums on Website/DeviantArt, and it ''should'' have remained there because of how awful it is. The dialogue is poorly worded, the artwork is barely above elementary school-level, the characters are flat and unlikeable, and the comic tries to be dramatic [[{{Narm}} but fails miserably]].
36	* '''''Webcomic/NattyComics''''' is an unholy combination of ProtagonistCenteredMorality, DisproportionateRetribution, and {{Straw Character}}s. Nearly every comic follows the same basic pattern: someone does something Natty doesn't like, and Natty (or one of her associates) assaults, maims, or kills the man while he says how much he deserves it. Natty can be [[HairTriggerTemper triggered]] by such things as being a little creepy, being kinda offensive, or liking the wrong football team. It sounds satirical, but [[WordOfGod the creator]] was adamant that it was meant to be serious; and said creator is not, as might be thought, a teenage girl with serious anger issues toward the male gender, but a 30-something grown man. This results in a comic with [[UncertainAudience little appeal to anybody]]; it promotes progressive gender ideals, but does so by portraying the people who uphold those ideals as [[DontShootTheMessage violent sociopaths]]. The creator eventually removed it, not from any JerkassRealization, but from a belief in his own audacity.
37	* '''''One-Frame Gags''''' is a defunct webcomic that ran from September 2012 to July 2013 -- and in that short period, it exhibited a decade's worth of terrible artwork, unfunny "gags", and [[HurricaneOfPuns terrible puns]]. The only thing it had going for it is that [[Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic David Morgan-Mar]] actually wrote a guest strip for it. The creator became a ''Webcomic/SquareRootOfMinusGarfield'' and ''Webcomic/LightningMadeOfOwls'' contributor after it ended and made some ''slightly'' better strips.
38	* '''''Project 2nd''''' is a webcomic inspired by ''Webcomic/TwoKinds''. And by "inspired", we mean [[SerialNumbersFiledOff blatantly ripped off and traced from the source]]. The leads are an AuthorAvatar created to be the brother of ''Two Kinds'' character Flora ([[BrotherSisterIncest which has plenty of creepy overtones]]) and a tiger girl named Fauna ([[CaptainErsatz who is Flora in all but name]]). The artwork is poor despite the tracing, and what isn't traced is even worse -- particularly the BigBad, who has been likened to an "evil guitar pick". The writing is spotty, with many typos that were left unchecked (while English may not be the author's first language, he could've invested someone to proofread it). [[WebVideo/TheWebcomicRelief Riiser]] tackled this webcomic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B00sGGvNjUE right here]].
39	* '''''[[https://asfoxger.deviantart.com/gallery/58235973/Purity-R-ENGLISH Purity-R]]''''' is a strange-looking comic about a boy being turned into a grey woman. Then the creators' fetish for everything lesbian-related kicks in, and extremely ugly and hard-to-follow hijinks ensue. The comic is made entirely by posing 3D models in ''VideoGame/GarrysMod'' and then tracing them (he has [[https://asfoxger.deviantart.com/gallery/56478904/A-Yurist-Closet-ENGLISH another comic]] where he doesn't trace, and one can see why he resorts to tracing). He claims to be an "expert in English" in his profile, but this is not exhibited in any of his comics.
40	* '''''Webcomic/ShreddedMoose''''' is devoid of humor, good taste, or any point behind its [[HeManWomanHater persistent misogyny]]. It's a TwoGamersOnACouch comic with two GaryStu {{Self Insert}}s: Brew (representing the writer), a TotallyRadical "Alpha Male" who wears his hat backwards, and Trip (representing the artist), a youngster {{Fratbro}} who looks up to Brew. Most comics are about how women suck, with Brew encountering a StrawMan to tear down, followed by sex with multiple women (or else just violence). Brew, in particular, is an unlikable {{Jerkass}} who epitomizes the worst of the "fratire" genre without any of its redeeming qualities. If any woman doesn't want to jump into bed with Brew, they're either a lesbian or a StrawFeminist (here portrayed as [[OurOrcsAreDifferent orcs]]). The comic's only redeeming features are that the art is okay, it ended many years ago, and its creator has since [[CreatorBacklash renounced and disowned it]].
41	* '''''Webcomic/SoreThumbs''''' has an okay art style, and at the very least, it ''tries'' to equally lambaste both sides of the political spectrum. But those are the only good things that can be said about it. The characters are all woefully unlikable, with the main character being a desperate attempt to pander to those seeking {{Fanservice}}. The attempts at humor fall horribly flat. The plotline is borderline nonsensical, and decisions made about the story are just outside the realm of human logic ("Let's make the love interest a eunuch for no reason!").
42	* '''''Webcomic/VeganArtbook''''' is off-putting even by the standards of AuthorTract comics. There is no nuance: the [[DesignatedHero "heroes"]] are all cardboard mouthpieces who do nothing but [[WriterOnBoard spout the author's views]] and occasionally use violence against [[DesignatedVillain meat-eaters]], which is apparently justified because they're meat-eaters and therefore "wrong". Non-vegans are reduced to blatant {{Straw Character}}s who are portrayed as either selfish monsters or ignorant clods who don't understand veganism. [[https://images.shoutwiki.com/badwebcomicswiki/thumb/4/4e/Vart_thatonelaw.jpg/420px-Vart_thatonelaw.jpg At one point]], they're even [[GodwinsLaw compared to Hitler]]. Even people who are genuinely unable to pursue a vegan diet for medical or economic reasons are targeted. It also forgets to do its research and tends to reuse the same points in multiple strips. The closest it has to a redeeming quality is its cute [[{{Animesque}} Sanrio-esque]] artwork, and even that, according to various sources, is stolen or traced. In the end, you get a comic that doesn't really appeal to anyone: non-vegans find it too insulting to be readable, and vegans tend to find their treatment of non-vegans too extreme, even before the comic started bashing non-extreme vegans. [[https://kyrtuck.deviantart.com/art/Vegan-Artbook-Honest-Trailer-581048200 This]] ''WebVideo/HonestTrailers'' {{homage}} should tell you everything you need to know.
43	* '''''[[https://warmage.comicgenesis.com/ WarMage]]''''' [[OrphanedSeries (on hiatus since 2009)]] is an UsefulNotes/MSPaint-spawned harem porn monstrosity covered in a hash of superhero (in)action, TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture cyberpunk, and whatever Wicca and Hindu mysticism the author feels like tossing in. The antagonists tend to be assorted flavors of Judeo-Christian fundamentalists because, apparently, monotheism equals evil. The webcomic is already bad on its own, but the author decided to [[RecycledPremise clone]] it for different genres - '''''[[https://monsterlover.comicgenesis.com/ Monster Lover]]''''' (a mishmash of RPGElements) and '''''[[https://madgoblin.comicgenesis.com/ A Call to Destiny]]''''' (a mishmash of RPG elements ''[[JustForFun/RecycledInSPACE in space!]]''). The creator's fourth comic breaks the pattern but is otherwise just as bad: '''''[[https://shadowroot.comicgenesis.com/ Shadow Root]]''''', which is basically ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' meets UrbanFantasy. WebVideo/TheWebcomicRelief took a belated look at ''[=WarMage=]'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1hsjSiKjpk here]].

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