>Comic books are something that I love and at times revere. That being said, there are several things about them that can be absolutely ridiculous, especially in older comics from a day when publishers just didn’t take their product that seriously. One of my favorite internet time wasters is finding the ridiculous and sublime on some of my favorite websites that find these little gems and presents them to the world in all their…uh…glory.

One in particular that I find myself coming to often is superdickery.com, a website originally dedicated to what a jerk Superman can be but also shows the ridiculousness of items taken out of context and how bad some comics were back in the day. The sight is broken down into 9 seperate categories: 1.Examples of superdickery; Why Superman is a joke 2.Confounding covers; Covers in and out of context that will make you scratch your head 3.Frames and panels;Panels in and out of context that will make you say, “What!?!” 4. Everything’s better with monkey’s; because they just are. 5.Seduction of the innocent; Mostly featuring Robin in questionable situations, saying questionable things.6.Weird Science; Or not so well thought out plot solutions. 7.Suffering Sappho; Examples of Wonder Woman’s bondage fetish. 8.Propaganda Extravaganza; The innocent days of World War II when being offensive and insensitive were a-okay, and 9.Stupor Powers; Strange abilities that just should not be.

Then theres the fun of Worst Cover Ever Where there is an extensive catalogue of badly composed covers as well as just plain bad comic merchandise along with scathing critiques of why they are so bad.

And then finally there’s one of my favorite and most deserving subjects of ridicule, Rob Liefeld. Bad anatomy, poorly drawn feet, fingers, oversized guns, overuse of cross-hatching, bad shadowing, awful writing, Rob is the total package and someone out there has noticed: 40 Worst Rob Liefeld drawings.

If anyone has any recomendations on other sites of comic book ridiculousness, please let me know.

-Jim

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