Line #4 StylisticSuck/WebComics


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7	* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
8	** The print-only version of ''No Cure for the Paladin Blues'' involves Elan recapping the events of the previous book using finger puppets. It's about as good as you'd expect it to be.
9	** According to the author commentary found in the books, the comic's initial art style was meant to be seen this way. However, Burlew found himself putting more effort into the comic as time passed, leading to ArtEvolution.
10	* A ''Webcomic/PunchAnPie'' subplot includes three pages out of a SoBadItsGood novel by one of the characters. It's written to be received as SoBadItsGood by the readers in the real world. The general public (or at least the critics) in the webcomic world actually think it's a good novel. Justin (the author) and Angela think it's crap.
11	* When the {{author\|Avatar}} of ''Webcomic/BrawlInTheFamily'' decides to take the day off and lets Dedede draw a comic, it has has loads and loads of this[[http://www.brawlinthefamily.com/?p=207 .]]
12	* The authors of ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}}'' created a [[LoggingOntoTheFourthWall site]] for Parson's [[http://www.erfworld.com/wiki/index.php/Hamstard "Hamstard" webcomic]]. Suffice it to say that "Nobody reads my webcomic" is one of his laments about his real-world life prior to his summoning.
13	* The works of Tycho's archnemesis L.H. Franzibald in ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', whose undeserved success is a great source of jealousy for Tycho. Gabe, of course, is immediately hooked.
14	--> "I am Grimm Shado," said Grimm Shado, his triple wand claws extending. "And I am here to take it to the limit."
15	** And Franzibald himself is an offshoot of the "Elemenstor Saga," an "epic" fantasy series about wizards and talking furniture supposedly written by the Tycho character. In an inspired bit of meta-metafiction, Gabe and Tycho [[http://elothtes.pbwiki.com/ created a wiki]] where readers can create their ''own'' continuity for the fictional works.
16	%%* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': [[http://sluggy.com/daily.php?date=080217 My name is Gunman Stan McKurt, and I shoot Evil In The Face]]
17	* The theatre and TV shows the characters put on in ''Webcomic/SomethingPositive'' (such as ''Nailed!'', a musical version of the Crucifixion), all appear to be terrible, especially Aubrey's TV series ''My Neighbor [[Creator/HPLovecraft Cthulhu]]'' which was [[TakeOurWordForIt so bad]] the State of Massachusetts served her with a restraining order keeping her away from TV production equipment.
18	** Also Davan and Jason's CatGirl comic strip ''Neko Neko Holy-Chan'', which Davan holds in such contempt the idea of meeting the people who ''like'' it fills him with horror.
19	* ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'''s Amber has written at least two blatant MarySue stories. Her superheroine, Amazing Girl, was impervious to criticism and had no father issues. Her online romantic novel, in addition to being a hilarious ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' parody, is an extended metaphor for her ideal romantic life. [[invoked]]
20	* The various stage performances seen in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' are as overblown and corny as possible, featuring all sorts of hackneyed mad science and adventure cliches, grandiose romances, and even more grandiose dialogue. An opera called [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20080204 The Storm King]] is a particularly "impressive" example.
21	* Most of the main characters in ''Webcomic/{{Achewood}}'' keep blogs, and the some of the more dysfunctional characters have atrocious blogs. And the dangerously psychotic Nice Pete has made two forays into the world of novel-writing, both of which manage to be talentless and extremely creepy at the same itme.
22	** ''"When I want your opinion I will cut out your brain and eat it and crap your opinion back into your skull"''
23	* Peanut of ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' writes his own comic featuring Spot (the Superdog), drawn in a crayon-and-lined-paper style, and written in an exaggeratedly amateurish style, with an InvincibleHero who is also an AuthorAvatar and delves into the realms of bad FanFic at times.
24	--> Spot loves orfans and then we shoot him!
25	* ''Webcomic/TheBMovieComic'' is full of [[SpecialEffectsFailure Special Effects Failures]], [[SoBadItsGood bad writing]], ThrowItIn moments, and PlotHoles galore. Of course, that's the whole point, and where half the humour comes from (the rest comes from the really good writing about the bad writing, complete with Behind the Scenes "DVD specials" showing "how" the special effects were created. Usually by doing horrible things to ButtMonkey Lee, who plays Snuka.
26	* The page image is from ''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'', ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'''s most prominent ShowWithinAShow, ostensibly written by [[TheLancer Dave Strider]] for ironic purposes. It started life individually from ''Homestuck'', originating as a playful mockery of a mediocre TwoGamersOnACouch comic posted on the ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' forums ([[ParodyDisplacement which never continued past a few unfinished strip concepts]]) and was later integrated into ''Homestuck'' as a ShowWithinAShow. Its primary technique is being a CutAndPasteComic, regularly reusing basic assets from earlier works for most of the panels; the comics are constantly saved as lowest-quality [=JPEGs=], making every subsequent copypaste even more degraded, and it regularly leaves in entire chunks of text, background, other characters, or ''even bits of Adobe Photoshop windows'' when copying and pasting. Add liberal doses of RougeAnglesOfSatin, TotallyRadical, WordSaladHumor, and FanDisservice, and you have perhaps ''the'' defining example of Stylistic Suck in webcomics. The hilarious part is that [[RealityIsUnrealistic it takes actual effort]] to make it as crappy as it is on Photoshop, because UsefulNotes/MSPaint can't actually be ''that'' low-quality in and of itself and merely using the lowest JPEG setting on Photoshop isn't enough. Creator/AndrewHussie has [[http://web.archive.org/web/20160809040719/https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/40585720/Combined_Formspring_Web_Aug-28-2011.htm described his techniques]] for reaching that level of graphical shittacularity as being fairly intensive and detailed.
27	-->''what do you do to the [=SBaHJ=] pages to make them look so unbelievably shitty?''\
28	There is a lot to it. I don't have any trade secrets at all, but if I did, it would probably be the process I apply to those images.\
29	One major tactic: save as jpg, reduce quality to zero, but DON'T SAVE IT YET. Instead, screen capture the preview. Then paste that into the same document, and repeat this process for a while, until you have grown the desired amount of "loss scum".\
30	But this just keeps making the image foggier, which isn't good enough by itself. After that, I usually apply other effects, like strategic sharpenings and other misc. filters. I also use a lot of masking through color range selections, and perform meticulous alterations at the pixel-cluster level.
31	* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' itself:
32	** One of [[TheSmartGuy Rose's]] journals contains ''Complacency of the Learned'', a 'creative writing exercise' full of excessive PurpleProse, [[LawOfAlienNames ridiculous names]], turgid InnerMonologue narration, {{Mixed Metaphor}}s and plenty of InfoDump abuse. It could also qualify as a parody of Creator/HPLovecraft.
33	** Mindfang's journal is written in an awkward, fanfic-like style. Unusually for a fanfic parody, it spoofs "good" fanfic - literate, creative, but badly-worded and paced and with lots of jarring sexual content.
34	** Later on, we get Roxy's in-progress novel, Wizardy Herbert, which has an interesting idea at its core but the writing quality is [[HardDrinkingPartyGirl inversely proportional to the author's blood alcohol level]]. It's also a {{Metafiction}} about a Literature/HarryPotter-like story that is "even worse" story-wise than the novel around it. The characters [[TrappedInTVLand trapped in fiction land]] keep [[WhoWritesThisCrap whining how bad it is]].
35	** Hussie also uses a form of ArtShift dubbed "[[http://mspaintadventures.wikia.com/wiki/Scribble_Mode Scribble Mode]]" to illustrate particularly stupid things. Lampshaded [[https://homestuck.com/story/3140 here]].
36	--->Karkat cannot be conveyed with a more detailed portrait yet. He is too angry, and is forced to look like shit.
37	** [[TerribleArtist Caliborn]] is the epitome of this. While HOMOSUCK, his dramatic retelling of the story, is miles better than his original drawings (Which were little more than scribbled lines), when combined with his immature misogynistic writing style, you get something that turns the trope up to eleven... thousand. Lampshaded by the acronym for Dave's planet in the second act, LOSHIT, then somehow [[SerialEscalation magnified]] when he branches into manga and claymation Vines.
38	** [[ResetButton Alpha-universe]] Dave Strider achieved a physics-defying InUniverse version when he found a way to manufacture physical objects that have jpeg artifacts. They're so cheap and shoddy that they [[MoneyForNothing cost less than nothing to make]], so he made himself rich by mass-producing them.
39	* There's also ''Webcomic/SherlokHolms'', a comic that's pretty much "[[RecycledInSpace Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff WITH CREEPYPASTA INSTEAD OF VIDEO GAMES!]]". It's slowly gaining popularity among the video game creepypasta fanbase.
40	* ''Webcomic/UnwindersTallComics'' features several in-universe [[http://tallcomics.com/?id=50 comics]], [[http://tallcomics.com/?id=17 books]] and [[http://tallcomics.com/?id=33 movies]], some (most?) of which do indeed suck.
41	* ''Webcomic/IrregularWebcomic'' uses a fictional version of Creator/WilliamShakespeare, where "Will" is a modern-day office worker instead of the historical figure known in RealLife. Instead of writing epic poetry and plays, he focuses his time on writing Literature/HarryPotter fanfiction, which is portrayed as being low-quality writing chock full of wish fulfillment of Will's fantasies. The very idea of ''Shakespeare'' writing fan fiction would likely fit this trope, even if Will's writing didn't suck.
42	%%* [[http://z11.invisionfree.com/WOAM/index.php?showforum=30 These Webcomics Are Bad]] is...[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin well,]] [[ShapedLikeItself just sort of is.]]
43	%%* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'':
44	%%** Marigold's [[http://questionablecontent.net/spacewizards.html fanfiction]]... could use some work. Jeph had a lot of fun writing that.
45	%%** Also, Jimbo's romance novels.
46	* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' has a bonus comic called ''Webcomic/CityFace''. Its black-and-white art isn't bad ''per se'', but it's certainly much simpler than the highly detailed and painstakingly colored art that ''Gunnerkrigg'' normally features. The dialog has a unique flavor (i.e. highly awkward and stilted, but apropos for the characters in question), and the overall effect is... interesting. The comments in the ShoutBox below each strip are part of the joke--written by the author and patterned as a mockery of internet flame wars. Strangely, despite the odd style and superfluous plot, the ''City Face'' storyline (and its sequel ''City Face 2'') are are stated to be canon by the author.
47	* [[http://supermegacomics.com Super Mega]] lives and breathes this trope, in bright yellow.
48	-->'''Puppy on top of other animal''': "Where did this unicorn's horn go?! Is the magic gone forever???"
49	* ''[[Webcomic/InternationalComicContinuity BIONICLES ADVENTURS COMIXS]]'' was literally conceived as "''Webcomic/SweetBroAndHellaJeff'' on ''Toys/{{BIONICLE}}''", though in execution its approach is fairly different. It actually takes ''two'' people to make it as shitty as it is. [[CharacterBlog Then there's]] [[http://www.twitter.com/kopkastehgretst the "author"'s Twitter account]]...
50	%%* "The Degenerate", Corbin's webcomic in ''Webcomic/PlusEV''.
51	* ''Webcomic/PowerUpComics'' is meant to be a jab at those who create really sloppy webcomics by cutting and pasting a bunch of canned drawings into simplistic backgrounds and fill it with punchline-less jokes or lazy writing.
52	%%* ''Webcomic/DoubleFineActionComics''.
53	%%* Brazilian webcomic ''[[http://cersibon.blogspot.com/ cersibon]]''.
54	* ''Webcomic/{{Educomix}}'' - all of its characters spend a lot of the time OffModel and speak with [[StrangeSyntaxSpeaker very strange grammar]], but it's all part of the style of the comic.
55	* In ''Webcomic/NotAVillain'', some {{Digital Avatar}}s are deliberately drawn worse than others, with bad proportions and no shading. Kleya's is particularly bad, because she drew it herself, and she's a TerribleArtist.
56	* In ''Webcomic/SketchComedy'', Rene Descartes creates his own [[http://thesketchy.com/ic/2011/12/19/descartes-week-1 stick figure comics]]. The premise: various philosophical figures get schooled by Rene Descartes. Surprisingly, [[http://thesketchy.com/ic/2011/12/23/descartes-week-5 he actually finds a market for it]].
57	** Independent Music James' hobbies include [[http://thesketchy.com/ic/2011/12/02/oh-internet-too writing deliberately awful fanfiction]].
58	%%* ''Webcomic/AllenTheAlien'' has the {{B Side Comic\|s}} Poorly Drawn Allen.
59	* Subverted in ''Webcomic/AxeCop''. The entire series is written by a 6 year old (literally), but the good artwork by the writer's older brother brings it up to awesome.
60	%%* ''[[http://imgur.com/a/NSNuJ Grindscape]]''
61	%%* ''[[http://www.jfazw.com Star Trek: Paradigms]]''
62	* ''Webcomic/PvP'''s Marcy used her webcomic ''i hate your face'' as part of her application portfolio for art college. The [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2009/12/03/face-time two]] [[http://www.pvponline.com/comic/2009/12/04/autoscad strips]] shown were rather dire.
63	* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Elliot and Susan's review show has a scene where Sarah [[http://www.egscomics.com/index.php?id=1723 throws a couch at Elliot.]] In universe, the characters wanted the couch graphic to look obviously fake, so that no one would take it too seriously. Out of universe, this meant that the author did such things as deliberately failing at perspective, re-using the same couch graphic, and making it change size between panels.
64	* ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert''. I repeat, ''Webcomic/TriangleAndRobert''. A comic which already thrives on artificial stylistic suck by its own. [[RunningGag Or the cartoonist can't draw.]] And then enter the meta-comic "Dot and Another Dot"...
65	* ''Webcomic/{{Nebula}}'': At one point Jupiter has a daydream about what things would be like if he were in charge, after he finally succeeded in killing Sun. Since this is ''[[TheDitz Jupiter's]]'' daydream, it's of course shown with scribble art and filled with really clumsy out-of-character dialog from the other characters who appear in it.
66	%%* ''Webcomic/{{Dolan}}'' comics use this as their bread and butter.
67	* [[http://inklingstudioshub.deviantart.com/gallery/59844196/Swageon-and-Glacigeon Swageon and Glacigeon]] features bad spelling in comic sans, characters [[DullSurprise who don't show emotion]] ([[ArtEvolution until later that is]]), and is generally not recommended to not be taken seriously. CerebusSyndrome is in effect however.
68	* ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'' comics, as a rule, are supposed to look like they were drawn with an unsteady hand using a touchpad or computer mouse on Microsoft paint or something similar. The characters are simple balls with a country's flag and two pupil-less eyes (the more complex flags will still be drawn by a touchpad or mouse). Using tools to make perfect circles or copying and pasting a hard-to-draw emblem or symbol from a flag (besides for the purpose of getting the right colors for it) is heavily frowned upon. Still, artists who have more advanced art programs do sometimes manage to make lush illustrations while still following all the rules.
69	* The webcomic adaptation of ''Fanfic/ChristianHumberReloaded'' does this [[http://christianhumberreloaded.thecomicseries.com/comics/36/ near the end of the part about Vash's training]]. Since the original offhandedly has Vash mention that "While I was training I learned how to use a sword," seemingly as a non-sequitur, the webcomic artist adds a small panel of a poorly drawn Vash using a sword, saying that the panel was "an afterthought," like the sentence that inspired it.
70	* The ''Webcomic/PlanetOfHats'' recap of [[Recap/StarTrekS3E10PlatosStepchildren "Plato's Stepchildren"]] is drawn in crayon as [[TakeThat comment on the episode's writing]].
71	* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids:'' The comic's version of ''Solo'' is written by [[TheDitz Jim]], who despite trying desperately manages to completely butcher any attempt at a story, much to the pain of the other players having to act it out.
72	-->'''Corey:''' This backstory... it's... like watching a train-wreck.
73	* ''Webcomic/{{Muted}}'': In-universe. The birthday card that Camille drew Silvia in a flashback has Soot drawn to be more resembling of a dolphin with legs than a crow; wobbly letters that are a mix of upper and lowercase; and the whole thing is messily colored in with marker. Justified, as Camille can't be much older than 5 in the flashback, and most 5 year olds aren't exactly known for their artistic ability.
74	* The original webcomic version of ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is deliberately drawn in a crude manner. The work's author, ONE, can draw well if he wants to.

Context StylisticSuck / WebComics