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->''"This comic sucks... but it's SO much fun in its stupidity!"''
-->-- '''[[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]]''', on the ''[[ComicBook/NintendoComicsSystem Game Boy]]'' comics


Comic book series and storylines that border on the ridiculous, but can be [[SoBadItsGood strangely compelling in spite of themselves]].
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* The "[[ProductPlacement Adventures of Kool-Aid Man]]" comic from the early '80s. Featuring the [[{{mascot}} Kool-Aid Man]] as a [[ProductAsSuperhero super hero]] on call 24/7 who battles villains like the sun-shaped [[{{mooks}} Thirsties]] and Scorch [[RecycledInSpace IN SPACE]] and [[SignatureStyle frequently bursts through walls exclaiming '''OH YEAAHH!!!''']]
* Creator/FrankMiller's ''[[ComicBook/AllStarBatmanAndRobinTheBoyWonder All-Star Batman & Robin]]'' (a.k.a. "ASBAR"). ASBAR is an attempt at retelling Batman's earliest adventures with Robin... except Miller writes Batman as a complete and total lunatic who calls himself "the goddamn Batman" and whose actions make no sense. Meanwhile, the Joker is humorless, Robin eats rats, Superman is a bumbling idiot, and Wonder Woman is a StrawFeminist extremist who calls men sperm banks and advocates castrating all men. The first chapter has three pages of gratuitous close-ups of Vicki Vale wearing pink lingerie while gushing over how hot Bruce Wayne is. Green Lantern gets to deliver the immortal line "Damn you AND your lemonade!" Also, Frankie would like to remind you that Dick Grayson, age 12, is in fact 12 years old. He reminds you of this ''[[ViewersAreGoldfish every time Dick's name appears in print]].'' [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox7/ Vicariously]] [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox20/ witness]] it in all [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox30/default.php its glory.]] It also doesn't have a timeline as much as a time-mess. Because, if the time given is to be believed, Batman apparently drives around for days considering that Superman is shown seeing Dick's FaceOnAMilkCarton (yes, apparently they still have milk cartons and people put faces on them in Metropolis) while Batman was still driving around with Dick in the car.
* ''ComicBook/America2017'' was a solo book for the popular [[ComicBook/YoungAvengers America Chavez]], meant to elevate her character to new heights and give her exposure. Unfortunately, the book was riddled with issues: the author admitted to not reading comics, knew nothing about the character beforehand, had no experience writing for comics, and barely spoke Spanish, despite the characters constantly speaking Spanish, leading to horrible grammar and illogical statements. On top of this, the author would frequently have characters [[AuthorFilibuster say things they wouldn't normally say]] to promote the author's beliefs. The story itself was incoherent, full of plot holes, featured art that was frequently OffModel, and phrases like "Holy menstruation!" that would quickly go viral. All of America's appearances after this book would go on to ignore or outright contradict everything introduced here.
* ''ComicBook/TheAvengers'':
** There's a story with a villain called Immortus, whose power is that he can summon up mythical and real historical figures to fight for him, like Merlin, Atilla the Hun, Goliath, and... Paul Bunyan. Yes, the [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Executioner]] vs. Paul Bunyan. Unfortunately (or fortunately?), Immortus was more toned down in later appearances, being known strictly as a time travelling villain.
** All the early ''Avengers'' stories are a lot like the Immortus story to one extent or another. It's when the team lineup changes for the first time that things start to actually be good. It really doesn't help that the earliest stories have the team treating it like some kind of secret club, with regularly scheduled meetings and having hissy fits when a member doesn't show up (in one very early issue, Iron Man was even banned from the team for a week because he missed a meeting).
* Creator/JhonenVasquez's "Bad Art Collection", compiled of things he drew ''specifically to deter his friends from asking for art from him.'' It's ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.
* ''ComicBook/BatmanOdyssey'', a 12-issue miniseries drawn by Neal Adams. Unfortunately, it's also ''written'' by Neal Adams, leading to bizarre dialogue (Alfred offers to murder somebody, because he "doesn't give a hydroelectric dam about all this flap"), a nonsensical plot (it eventually involves dinosaurs), and general zanyness all around, leading to it becoming an incredibly impressive-looking trainwreck.
** While attempting to read the comics cold is not recommended (being about as close to a BrownNote as is possible in RealLife), [[http://comicsalliance.com/batman-odyssey-neal-adams-insane/ this "deconstruction"]] can serve as a good starting point. In addition, dramatic readings of the first five issues can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/DavidXanitos/videos here]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4YJHCekr8CE first issue]]). If nothing else, check out [[https://p.dreamwidth.org/06ad5995f5d7/-/www.abload.de/img/66wzxe.jpg these]] [[http://i.imgur.com/30AsS.jpg excerpts]], showing Robin's reaction after he discovered the identity of his parents's murderer, [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext by looking it up on Wikipedia, while riding a giant bat]].
* ''ComicBook/BattlePope''. It's the post-rapture apocalypse, demons are everywhere. The righteous are taken to Heaven and surprise, the Pope's not among them. After being visited by {{God}} and [[JesusWasWayCool Jesus]], the Pope [[TookALevelInBadass becomes a badass demon hunter]]. "When He's not giving Mass, He's kicking ass!"
* Although Creator/ValiantComics produced a number of series that were good enough to stand up on their own merits, ''ComicBook/{{Bloodshot}}'' certainly counts as this. A basic NinetiesAntiHero ClicheStorm, where the creative staff couldn't decide which direction they wanted to go in, so they went in all of them at once. "He's like Batman! Now he's like The Punisher! Now he's Wolverine!" The result being an experimental super solder created by a Japanese corporation, out of the body of a betrayed Mafia hitman, who wanders the streets of New York in a [[BadassLongcoat trench coat]]. The plots are completely illogical; he gets on a plane, battles assassins and terrorists, falls out, and lands in the jungles of South East Asia, where he goes all Rambo on some random guerrillas. Also random crossovers. A lot of them.
* ''ComicBook/{{Brute Force|MarvelComics}}'', a four-issue mini series from Marvel in which a hippie scientist has his cyborg gorilla stolen by a group of mercenary clowns. He then makes a team of cyborg animals consisting of a kangaroo, an eagle, a bear, a dolphin, and a lion to fight the evil corporation behind the kidnapping and the destruction of the rainforest. Yes, seriously. Even [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] admitted that it's enjoyably weird and that you ''should'' try to pick it up, if only for the [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Robo-Bear Vs. Cyber-Gorilla fight]] (Which he set to Music/{{Nightwish|Band}}'s [[MemeticMutation "Ghost Love Score"]]), which he considered to be nearly as awesome as Neutro riding on top of a whale. Linkara cited this comic as why he loves comics: no other medium he's seen has moments as bizarrely awesome as clowns taking down a cyborg gorilla.
* The old '70s Marvel book ''ComicBook/{{Champions|1975}}''. The roster was more or less cobbled together, resulting in ComicBook/TheIncredibleHercules, ComicBook/BlackWidow, [[ComicBook/XMen Angel, Iceman]], and ComicBook/GhostRider sharing a book (it was meant to be just the ''X-Men'' characters, but the development got messy). The team basically just wandered around LA getting into fights with either D-list antagonists from other rogues galleries, or the craziest things Tony Isabella and Bill Mantlo could come up with, including super-strong hobos, Amazons, and power-armored recession victims. Yet in spite of all that, it's kind of charming in how confused and messy it is, as a relic of the days when crime-fighting was enough to sell a book, the action and artwork is surprisingly decent, there's no small amount of HoYay, and it features the debut of Swarm, the Nazi made out of bees. The characters involved have referred to it with some frequency since then, [[OldShame usually ruefully]].
* ''WesternAnimation/CountDuckula'' #6 (Marvel) featured a story with a drawn-for-comic rendition of Geraldo Rivera, with the storyline of Duckula appearing on Rivera's trashy talk show of the time. The cover has the cartoon Duckula conversing with a live Rivera.
* The ''VideoGame/{{Doom}}'' [[ComicBook/{{Doom}} comic]]. It has the same ExcusePlot and {{Gorn}} as the game while adding a ridiculously dumb and repetitive monologue by the hero. Yet the camp violence, inane one-liners and gun fetishism are just too charming in their simplicity to be disliked.
** It doesn't hurt that the protagonist looks and talks like Creator/BruceCampbell on ''several'' illicit mind-altering substances (and he's definitely on at least one), making it easy to turn an otherwise mindless death-fest into B-movie comedy gold.
** "Now I'm radioactive! That can't be good!"
** Someone has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8yc5bnOrSc made a dramatic reading of it]]! ...[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XZ1UECrRk0 And someone else edited it.]]
* What about that issue of ''ComicBook/DoomPatrol'' where the super villain with the robotic penis is beaten by the transsexual hooker in a frog mask who gained powers by servicing a radioactive Hermaphrodite? [[http://www.headinjurytheater.com/article59.htm Proof.]]
* ''Fantomah, Mystery Woman of the Jungle'' by Fletcher Hanks aka Henry Fletcher (here working as "Barclay Flagg"), a series that appeared in ''Jungle Comics'' #2 to 51 (February 1940 to March 1944), a cross between jungle and superhero comics written with incredibly stilted dialogue with artwork to match. The same man also created ''Stardust the Super-Wizard'', described further down this list. In the words of Ron Goulart:
--->Another frightening aspect of the feature was the artwork of Henry Fletcher. A true primitive, he drew like a sort of deranged Grandma Moses. There's been been no one like him since. Those who have never seen Fletcher's depiction of a pack of giant hypnotized phosphorescent reptiles eating a jungle city or his rendering of Fantomah's causing "thousands of gigantic royal panthers" to go flying through the air haven't experienced all that fantasy art has to offer.
* ''Godzilla vs. Charles Barkley''. [[https://web.archive.org/web/20150802132734/http://cdn2.maxim.com/maxim/files/2009/11/11/10-worst-athlete-merchandising-mistakes/GodzillaGotBusy.jpg This picture sums it up nicely.]]
-->[[Website/{{Superdickery}} This is ''so'' stupid that it swings all the way around the meter and winds up back in "unbelievably awesome" territory...]]
** A hilarious little touch? Look closely in the picture and you'll see that Godzilla is wearing sneakers.
* In-universe this was the reaction to the "Harley & Ivy" motion picture in the [[ComicBook/HarleyAndIvy spin-off miniseries about the two]]. Initially enraged about how they were going to be portrayed in the film, Harley and Ivy set out to stop production with use of a mind-control serum they made. Upon learning about how much money was being used to make the film, Ivy decided that by taking over production they could skim off millions. Harley was chosen as the new director and loaded the film with Batman being blown up. When the real Batman showed up to stop the two, the executives in charge of the movie studio had no choice but to release Harley's film after all the money that was sunk into it nearly bankrupts the studio. The movie is universally praised as a brilliant parody of action movies and Harley's made into an award-winning celebrity.
* ''Hulk vs Venom'', a 90s one shot where writer Creator/PeterDavid just decided to inject as many ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' quotes as he could. The plot features Venom and the Hulk teaming up to stop "Dr. Badvibes" (they even lampshade how stupid the name is) a crazy guy who claims he can cause earthquakes (he can't - the earthquakes are just a coincidence). The crowning moment of... ''something''... is when Hulk and Venom go on TV and call out Dr. Badvibes with the line [[http://www.superdickery.com/some-of-the-worst-art-writing-hell-just-the-worst-page-you-ever-saw/ "we're going to beat *clap* you up!"]]
* ''ComicBook/JohnnyTurbo''. It's cheesy video game propaganda at its finest, and very silly and over the top because of how seriously it takes itself.
* ''ComicBook/LiberalityForAll'', advertised as "the first conservative comic book", is basically one long, bizarre AuthorTract full of [[StrawCharacter strawmen]] where Sean Hannity and G. Gordon Liddy fight against a [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture future]] totalitarian liberal United States where Al Gore won the 2000 election, led by Chelsea Clinton and Micheal Moore, part of a UN-led OneWorldGovernment. UsefulNotes/OsamaBinLaden is a UN ambassador, Sean Hannity fights against the system with a cyborg arm, and Oliver North shows up to help stop a nuclear suitcase from blowing up [[BigAppleSauce New York City]]. It's a premise so [[{{Narm}} ridiculous]], so insane you would think it was a [[PoesLaw liberal parody]], but it isn't.
* ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'s entire reason for existing is that he's so ridiculously over the top that it's hilarious.
* The ''Magog'' solo series is this. An AffectionateParody of the classic NinetiesAntiHero, and a rogues gallery consisting of a silver haired woman who talks like a 1980s valley girl, a crazy homeless dude, and his mother.
* Back in 1959, there was a ComicBook/MartianManhunter story in which J'onn J'onzz goes up against a foe called ''the Human Flame''... who was a schlub named Mike who built a "crime suit" that shot electric bolts and fire out of little spouts on the chest. That's right: ''Flaming Shock-Nipples of Crime!'' He dropped off the face of the earth for 50 years and was eventually brought back as an IneffectualSympatheticVillain in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis''.
* ''ComicBook/MarvelTeamUp'' #74 featuring ComicBook/SpiderMan teaming up with the old cast of ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' to defeat Silver Samurai. The cover is hilarious; it has John Belushi, in character as Samurai Fatuba, having a samurai swordfight with Silver Samurai.
** There was a similar comic with Jay Leno. The plot being Spider-Man and Leno team up to film a General Motors commercial, then get attacked by ninjas, with a 52-year-old Jay Leno practicing kung-fu on a ninja-defeating level. It also has a [[DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything promising Brokeback Mountain-style subtext]].
** Similarly, ''Marvel Team-Up'' [[http://www.spiderfan.org/comics/images/marvel_teamup/137.jpg #137]]. May Parker is given a portion of world-devourer Galactus' powers, and becomes his herald, "The Golden Oldie". Thank god it was a [[WhatIf What-If]] story and a case of StylisticSuck.
* The original ''Mighty Crusaders'' series of the mid-1960s is this: Hokey stories, bland attempts by Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel to ape the Stan Lee style, and silly over-exaggeration of the very Marvel-style story concepts that they were aiming for. It's no surprise that they're still mocked on the web today.
* Also likewise, Now Comics' ''[[Creator/MrT Mister T and the T-Force]]'', with immortal lines like, "[[DrugsAreBad It's a crack baby, foo'!]]"
* The half-assed European ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' comics. Intentionally ludicrous translation aside, the plotlines tend to read like they were written by a six-year-old (Or the writers of these comics didn't get the memo to not dumb down the content) and the art seems to have been created by someone who had never seen anything of the show but the basic stock art character models and somehow manages to land squarely in the [[UnintentionalUncannyValley Uncanny Valley]] despite being a cartoon. The result is an almost absurdist take on the setting involving things like [[http://derpibooru.org/30431 the ponies playing soccer]], [[http://derpibooru.org/images/30232 Spike having the exact same expression all the time]], and [[http://derpibooru.org/30280 Pinkie Pie making "enchanted" cookies]].
* Franchise/TheDCU series ''ComicBook/TheNewGuardians'', which only lasted for 12 issues. Six superheroes (all of whom are [[CaptainEthnic captain ethnics]]) are "chosen" to be the next level of human evolution, and are sent on the "glorious mission" to spread their genes by banging as many people as possible. (The problem with this is that the male half is almost completely exempt from this. One of them is CampGay, another is a cyborg with computer powers that probably can't be passed down genetically, and this just leaves the half man/half plant.) The only thing in the way of their glorious mission is the fact that a South African Neo-Nazi sends a vampire with AIDS to infect them. They also fight Snowflame, a supervillain who gets super powers from sniffing cocaine and runs a cocaine cult in Colombia. Ironically enough, he has since developed [[EnsembleDarkhorse another kind of cult following]].
** There's plenty of [[invoked]][[UnfortunateImplications Crypto-fascist subtext]] in their mission of eugenics, and they out and out call themselves [[ANaziByAnyOtherName "superior beings"]]. Also, their personalities combine the campiness of [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] Heroes with the egotism of [[NinetiesAntiHero Nineties Anti Heroes]].
** Plus, not only is sex their mission, it seems to be all they ever think about. In an attempt at giving the comic a "mature" feel, the characters drop sex into nearly EVERY conversation. On several occasions, they'll be discussing something unrelated, and someone will say "you know that reminds me: I have sex all the time!" and ''no one will find that weird.''
*** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]] did a [[http://atopfourthwall.blogspot.com/2009/05/new-guardians-2.html great review of it]]
* When not being slammed for its blatant CreatorsPet issues and poor writing, as well as causing several lawsuits later on, Ken Penders' [[AudienceAlienatingEra infamous run]] on ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' had some patently ridiculous storylines and plot elements, with such [[SarcasmMode brilliant storytelling]] as Knuckles' complicated (and [[OnlySixFaces samey]]) family tree, Tails transforming into a buff giant and firing lasers, and a story where real-life children (modeled after Penders' own kin) get sucked into Mobius a la (and named after) ''Film/LastActionHero'', the latter of which wound up being [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XB0-AF_Ofaw reviewed]] in the [[MilestoneCelebration 100th episode]] of WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall.
* To dust off a really old example, there's the UsefulNotes/WorldWarII-era comic feature ''ComicBook/StardustTheSuperWizard''. The title character is a textbook InvincibleHero, [[NewPowersAsThePlotDemands pulling new powers out of his ass in nearly every scene he's in]], and since the villains of the strip all have no powers at all, there is literally no conflict whatsoever in the narrative. If that weren't enough, it's also a [[WriterOnBoard politically-minded]] strip, with the aforementioned villains being [[CardCarryingVillain hilariously over-the-top]] [[StrawCharacter liberal strawmen]] who scheme to sell the United States out to hostile foreign powers because [[ForTheEvulz that's apparently just what liberals do]]. And despite the fact that his foes are so much weaker than him, Stardust has no [[ThouShaltNotKill code against killing]] whatsoever, and indeed half the fun is seeing what [[CruelAndUnusualDeath ironic and inventive death]] he'll dish out next. The same writer also created a DistaffCounterpart, ''Fantomah'' (see above), who's just as amusingly-wretched, but who also actually has the historical significance of likely being the first superpowered female in the comic medium!
--> '''LesCollaborateurs leader:''' [[CardCarryingVillain We must end freedom and democracy forever!]]
* The various ''Franchise/StarTrek''[=/=]''ComicBook/XMen'' crossovers. Yes, there's more than one.
** It's quite possibly the only crossover ''saved'' by a pun--namely, the confusion over "Dr. [=McCoy=]".
* ''Steampunk Palin''. Sarah Palin. As a cyborg. Powered by Steam. Also, Robot Obama (Robama). The Russians have taken over Alaska with the aid of Al Gore. Al Gore is apparently Cobra Commander.
** There's also ''Sarah Palin vs. The World'', which mixes Mrs. Palin with [[ComicBook/ScottPilgrim a certain Canadian's precious little life]], and it's as absurd as you imagine it to be. It ends with Barack Obama dressed up as '''[[ComicBook/CaptainAmerica CAPTAIN AMERICA.]]'''
* ''ComicBook/SupermanAtEarthsEnd'' is a perfect example of an attempt to make a character DarkerAndEdgier that fails. ''Completely''. It combines bizarre homages to the Adam West Batman TV show (Thousand year atomic batteries? A gun on display labeled "the gun that killed my parents"?) with strange attempts to be ''every cliché of the MediaNotes/TheDarkAgeOfComicBooks'' (Motorcycle riding child gangs? Superman growing a ridiculously huge beard? Story taking place after not one, but ''two'' apocalypses?). And the villains: TWIN CLONES OF HITLER (made by WAYNE LABORATORIES)! Why?... It's not explained.
* Speaking of Superman, the comic ''ComicBook/SupermansPalJimmyOlsen'' was always a goldmine of "so bad it's good." But the comic ''was'' responsible for ''The ComicBook/NewGods'', so it wasn't ''all'' bad.
** So was ''ComicBook/SupermansGirlFriendLoisLane'', except without the New Gods.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}} vs. Muhammed Ali''. An alien-depowered Supes [[https://www.cracked.com/article_16031_the-5-most-insane-celebrity-comic-book-cameos.html vs]] an overly egotistical and smartass Ali. But they never actually fight. And Ali figures out Supes' identity. Somehow. Art's nice though.
* According to the [[http://www.the-isb.com/?p=980 Invincible Super-Blog]], the one glimmer of awesomeness in ''ComicBook/TarotWitchOfTheBlackRose'' #53 (or the entire series) is: ''"You have to get out of here. Your '''vagina''' is '''haunted'''."''
** ''Tarot'' #74 [[http://comicsalliance.com/tarot-machine-gun-bra/ surpasses that a hundredfold]] with the secret duty of the Presidents of the United States: dressing in ''powered armor'' (shown on-page: Obama's current ComicBook/IronMan suit and George Washington's ''wooden battle suit'').
* While he is commonly considered the best Franchise/{{Transformers}} comic writer, Simon Furman is known for his purple prose and frequently-recycled dialogue ([[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Furmanism "IT NEVER ENDS!", "Never did want to live forever", "... like some vast, predatory bird!", and "... the worst case of indigestion it's ever had!"]] are some frequently-repeated offenders). A decent-sized chunk of the fandom and Furman himself actually ''embrace'' these flaws, as they give his work a [[NarmCharm distinctive charm.]]
* Likewise, fellow Marvel book ''U.S.-1'', a series in which a young trucker named [[FunWithAcronyms Ulysses Solomon Archer]], after surviving a crash, has most of his skull replaced by a metal alloy skull that can pick up CB-radio waves. and his 18-wheeler's armed with smoke screens, oil slick, caltrops, and anti-aircraft mini-missiles that can be controlled by a remote in a silver dollar. One of the villains is a demonic trucker called the Highwayman, who tries to ''kill'' our hero. There is also a love triangle involving U.S., the blonde truck-stop waitress named "Mary [=McGrill=]," and [[FieryRedhead a red-haired female trucker]] named Taryn, complete with catfight-worthy taunts from the girls! And that's not mentioning the villainous blimp-obsessed baron (named Baron von Blimp) and aliens that speak solely in CB-slang.
* A lot of MediaNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, especially the comics of the "[[SuperDickery Superman inexplicably forces Jimmy Olsen to marry a gorilla]]" variety.
* A tie-in for the ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' made for ''Wyndham Resort hotels'' features the Avengers fighting Ultron, then splitting up to go on vacation. The writing is lackluster and cliché, reading like a bad '60s comic book but with modern artwork. This makes it unbelievably funny. Also worth mentioning is Tony, in Iron Man armor, eating at a buffet and what can only be called [[FlatWhat Bored Hulk]].
* Promotional comics, when done right but still featuring obvious product placement, are like this in general.
** The Marvel/Office Max/Teacher Appreciation one where Dr. Doom is defeated thanks to the power of ''a rubber band ball'' is a spectacular example. Read about it [[http://www.i-mockery.com/comics/longbox10/default.php here]].
** NASA's Aero and Space comic is exactly what you would expect a comic book produced by NASA to be. Long, kinda-boring scenes about administration and getting funding for stuff... and then supercool action. The villain gets some pretty stupid lines, but c'mon, superheroes in battlesuits jumping out of an SR-71 and then launching into orbit!
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