The sixth semifinal for 2026:
Vote your top (which is to say, bottom) three of these notably bad covers from June!
Because good (bad) work should be recognized.
Category - Lousies
The fifth semifinal for 2026:
Vote your top (which is to say, bottom) three of these notably bad covers from May!
Because good (bad) work should be recognized.
The the fourth semifinal for 2026:
Vote your top (which is to say, bottom) three of these notably bad covers from April!
Because good (bad) work should be recognized.
The third of the first three semifinals for 2026:
Vote your top (which is to say, bottom) three of these notably bad covers from March!
Because good (bad) work should be recognized.
Democracy is cool:
Simply choose the worst three from this ballot of twelve worthy covers posted in February!
Vox populi!
The new, less painful voting method:
Simply choose the worst three from this ballot of twelve worthy covers posted in January!
Really, what could be simpler?
Because we can’t really call them “winners,” can we?
I’ve made so many of your pore over these covers repeatedly, so I’m going to trim the list down to the five worst covers featured here in 2025:
#5:
(originally posted December 5, 2025)
#4:
(originally posted July 28, 2025)
#3:
Club AutoRape: 01/01/2000 – 01/10/2000
(originally posted July 8, 2025)
#2:
Fire From The Sky-Battle Of Harvest Moon & True Story Of The Space Shuttles
(originally posted March 25, 2025)
#1:
5 Adventure Stories for Kids. Easy To Read Bedtime Stories (Kids Bedtime Stories)
(originally posted December 1, 2025)
With the new voting scheme, you won’t have to be subjected to as many repeated horrors when we do this again next year. (That’s right… We’re doing this again next year.)
The worst of the worst have risen to the top, like floating turds in the punchbowl!
From these inestimable examples of ambition outstripping skill, choose your THREE WORST, that democracy may prevail!