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?
Category - Lousies
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!
After this, the new format for the Lousies will spare you from being bludgeoned with quite so many bad covers at once to make your choice. One more time, for democracy’s sake!
Pick your choices for the worst three covers for the month, and then we’ll have a series of finals.
Below are the most commented covers posted in the month of November 2025. Yes, I know, it’s enough to bludgeon your senses; the new operating procedure for the 2026 Lousies will hopefully result in less cerebral trauma.
Pick your choices for the worst three covers for the month, and then we’ll have a series of finals.
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.
Happy New Year, y’all! I’m making a change to how the Lousies are chosen, and this is the perfect day to inflict reveal it!
The previous voting scheme, in which the number of comments was treated as a proxy for cover popularity/infamy, was naturally inexact; plus, it forced anyone who wanted to “vote” to come up with something to say about that cover.
But now, at the bottom of all posts in the “Covers” category, there’s a simple ballot to check:
I’ll include the twelve most voted covers from each month in the quarterly semi-finals.
Let freedom ring!
(Yes, this will show on the older cover posts too — there’s no way to limit to just those going forward.)
Below are the most commented covers posted in the month of September 2025.
Pick your choices for the worst three covers for the month, and then we’ll have a series of finals.