The Lousies Quarterly Semifinals: February!

Love the annual Lousies, but dreading Lousy Book Cover Overload in January each year? We’re switching it up! This month, we’ll have semi-finals for the first three months of the year, allowing your psyche to scar over before we periodically tear it up again. You’re welcome!

The rules: Pick your choices for the worst three covers for each month.

February:

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Hitch
1 year ago

This one was tough, too. Like the last one, some were so obvious, it’s a miracle we had to vote. (Yup, Jerry Lee lewis, I’m lookin’ at you!). But then in the 2nd tier of awfulness…man, it was hard.

Zsuzsa
Zsuzsa
1 year ago
Reply to  Hitch

The Jerry Lee Lewis one is hard for me. Is it really the worst cover, or do I just think it is, because I’ve seen some of the book behind it and know that THAT is the worst book of the year.

Hitch
1 year ago
Reply to  Zsuzsa

For me, the mere fact that old Donald there (the author) put an image of Jerry Lewis, the comedian, on the cover of a book about Jerry Lee Lewis, the musician…well, that pretty much does it for me.

I’d hate to waste votes, but that alone would probably have earned 3 votes from me, if we could multi-vote one. I mean, how do you write a biography, of some star, musical, theater, film, TV, otherwise and NOT know what s/he looks like, to the point that you put someone with a similar, but not identical, name on the cover? It’s BOGGLING.

Marc
Marc
1 year ago

No matter if we pick the very worst. We all lose regardless.

red
red
1 year ago
Reply to  Marc

And we don’t even get a trophy.

red
red
1 year ago
Reply to  Nathan

That’s covered by the “We don’t even get a trophy” category.

War Goat
War Goat
1 year ago

I’ve noticed that my votes tend to go to readability, bad art, and horrible layouts.

Hitch
1 year ago
Reply to  War Goat

And…I mean, you’ve pretty much covered the Gamut there, Goat.

War Goat
War Goat
1 year ago
Reply to  Hitch

Well, that seems to be my order of preference if the cover only meets one of the conditions.