A year’s worth of bad book covers has been whittled down by you, the discriminating viewer… and now, the final ballot of thirty-six covers! Which three do YOU think are the worst? Cast your votes, between now and January 29th — and on January 31st, we’ll present the Top Ten Bad Covers posted in 2021!
(Displayed in random order.)
Wow… some of these covers are so terrible, you can almost smell how bad they are through right through your screen.
By the way, for next year’s awards, I recommend having all ballots be attached to one sticky post like this one; discussing what’s on the ballots is much easier if you can do it all in just one comments section.
I’ll definitely take it under advisement. (Still figuring out how to run it best.)
If there are an even number of contenders, you could maybe run it like a March Madness bracket. But that could be far too cumbersome given the number of covers involved.
Nah, I think I prefer the current “All against all” format:
“600 lousy covers enter. But only one will be crowned…the worst cover of 2021!”
Theme music: “The Final Countdown”
So much awful…so few votes.
I kind of wish we couldn’t see how many votes each cover has gotten when we’re voting. I feel like, no matter how hard you try not to let it influence you, it’s still liable to bias your vote.
Still great fun though. These are truly a hot mess. I wanted to vote for so many more than three.
In terms of criteria for picking just three, I’m torn between two categories: ‘Nightmare Fuel’ and ‘Eyeball Damage.’
I think I may need more categories.
Don’t forget, “Unrecoverable Emotional Trauma.”
As well as, “The human race doesn’t deserve to survive.”
I’m traumatized. Today is the last day to vote and I still can’t decide which are the worst! Oh, the humanity….
Hmm… Seems if you feel like throwing your vote away, you can vote for Shadow Cat (from October 14, 2011) to win a Lousy in the 2021 awards.
Yeah, some of those older covers (originally posted when this was a tumblog, then ported over to WordPress) are officially in “gallery” format, which makes them part of the “gallery voting.”