Sorry, folks — we still gotta come up with the 2025 Lousies “winners” by the old rules.
Below are the most commented covers posted in the month of October 2025.
Pick your choices for the worst three covers for the month, and then we’ll have a series of finals.
An embarrassment of riches this month. Or maybe a rich supply of embarrassments would be a more accurate way of putting it. I had a hard time narrowing it down to just three!
An embarrassment of Duanes.
Oh, and I know that the “Should this cover be in the Lousies?” widget on this page is just because it’s now going to be on all pages from here on out, but it’s highly tempting to check it anyway. Yes, most definitely they all belong.
Whoops! Need to exclude the “Lousies” category, or we could end up in a recursive feedback loop that would consume civilization as we know it.
No, I’m saying that’s a BAD thing. Because reasons.
Wow. I had forgotten just how bad some of the covers in October were. Between “Duane The Great Writer” and drunken AI hallucinations and covers that look like they were drawn with crayons, there truly were more than three utterly irredeemable stinkers in this set.
Yeah, a month of nightmares and poor taste. And I can only choose 3 bad ones? I’m going back to bed first.
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I considered just voting for Duane’s œuvre, but that still was too many.
Only Three?
That means I have to go through all the covers once and go back to choose the lousiest.
Do I get hazardous duty pay?