The WORST Art in Comics

Overview

This video is a sarcastic, blow-by-blow roast of notoriously bad professional comic art. The host walks through a parade of covers and panels, calling out bizarre anatomy, poor composition, reused tracing, and wildly inconsistent styles while layering in joking reactions and colorful one-liners. The tone is mockery and hyperbole rather than a technical critique.

Main plot

The narrator catalogs and ridicules a series of officially published comic images that look amateurish or outright wrong, despite coming from major publishers and well-known artists. Each example receives a comedic take, with comparisons, mock explanations, and repeated disbelief that these images made it into print.

Highlights, jokes, and notable reactions

Repeated reactions in the video include incredulous lines such as “what the [__],” food metaphors (chef/kitchen burns), and gym/steroid jokes — all part of the host’s rapid-fire punchline style.

The video groups examples by artist, character, or specific covers/panels. Notable segments include:

Wolverine

• Several Wolverine covers and panels open the video.
• Examples include a cover that turns Wolverine into a masked “cowbell” figure, Frank Miller pages giving Wolverine a ludicrous hairline, a caveman look, and a panel that makes him resemble a T‑rex.
• The host imagines failed stealth takedowns because Wolverine’s proportions make reaching impossible and delivers hairline jokes: “Wolverine’s barber asked him what he wanted — he said ‘X‑Men’.”

Worst-ever cover meltdown

• A baffling cover shows Superman and Wonder Woman standing butt-to-butt with odd perspective, making them look like midgets.
• Visual problems called out: Superman in purple leggings and missing a cape, Wonder Woman with braided “hippie” hair and a comically chiseled jawline (“handsome Squidward”).

Greg Land roast

• The video accuses Greg Land of tracing and recycling the same face repeatedly.
• Jokes include porn-tracing references (Gwen’s expression compared to “busting a nut”) and an Iron Man panel described as “the most cursed Iron Man panel” — a meme-like image with teeth added.

Rob Liefeld takedown

• Classic Liefeld criticisms: absurd proportions (e.g., Captain America with an enormous chest and tiny groin), limb-to-body mismatches, and chronically poor feet.
• Quips include “super soldier program more like super steroid program.”

Spider-Man disasters

• John Romita Jr. panels show Spider-Man’s legs bent into bizarre “U” shapes and a horrifying Peter Parker face that the host begs to be “fixed.”
• Humberto Ramos’ Spider-Man faces are mocked for inflated, bee-stung features and tiny eyes; masked and unmasked faces both look oddly distorted.

Other odd styles

• A lanky, flat look attributed to “Zachary Bald” (as listed in the subtitles) where characters are inconsistent: for example, Kitty Pryde is drawn better but with weird leg proportions.
• The host highlights wildly inconsistent art across pages: “about as consistent as Klay Thompson.”

Injustice Batman fiasco

• An especially bad Batman/Catwoman depiction prompted the publisher to re-release a corrected cover.
• The host ridicules the original for making Batman look mentally off and praises the republished version as closer to the intended design.

Running gags and tonal flourishes

• Recurring comedic devices: disbelief, food and kitchen metaphors, gym/steroid jokes, sexualized gag comparisons, and physical-comedy imaginings of how characters would move in real life.
• The tempo is rapid, with escalating reactions and one-liners layered over each visual example.

Why the video stands out

• It pairs visual examples with blunt, funny commentary and repeated disbelief.
• The humor arises from both the severity of the art mistakes and the host’s escalating reactions.
• Because it leans heavily on sarcasm and hyperbole, the piece reads as an entertaining roast rather than a formal, technical analysis.

Personalities and names mentioned (from subtitles)

Artists / creators:

• Frank Miller
• Greg Land
• Rob Liefeld
• John Romita Jr. (listed as “John Rita Jr.” in subtitles)
• Humberto Ramos (listed as “hurto Ramos” in subtitles)
• “Zachary Bald” (as listed in the subtitles)

Comic characters shown or referenced:

• Wolverine
• Superman
• Wonder Woman
• Captain America
• Spider-Man / Peter Parker
• Iron Man
• Gwen (Gwen Stacy)
• Kitty Pryde
• Catwoman
• Batman

Host / narrator:

• Unnamed (the video’s commentator)