Category Archives: Bad Super Costumes

The future, my friends, is more horrifying than you can imagine, because not only has Disco survived, it’s thrived and has its own super-hero champion:

When you’re designing your super-hero costume, you should make a particular effort not to forget a few fundamentally important bits. Like pants: Apparently Gim Allon (aka “Colossal Boy” from “The Legion of Super-Heroes”) never heard that particular adage. Now, granted, … Continue reading →

Women suffer for fashion, whether it’s cramming their feet into way-too-small high heels, tying themselves into the torture devices we call corsets, or — as in this case — crushing their skulls into a face-deforming gigantic time-release medicine capsule: That’s … Continue reading →

I like John Byrne’s art. It’s clean, simple, anatomically accurate, dynamic, and interesting. And usually, I like his costume designs, particularly his “Alpha Flight” team, but one of those Canucks has always bugged me: I sympathize with Puck’s dilemma. He … Continue reading →

Rather than focusing on a bad costume this week, I want to take a moment and talk about another common blight on the super-hero comic landscape: bad anatomy. Examples abound, but let’s focus on just this one panel from “Prophet” … Continue reading →

Deciding on a color scheme for your super costume frightens many a would-be designer, but I think Marvel’s Captain Ultra has hit upon the right approach here — use all of them! Oh sure, your classic heroes all have a … Continue reading →

We all know Tim Burton was doing serious weed when he created “Edward Scissorhands”, and we all remember what difficulties that lovely fictional character had just trying to perform everyday tasks. So why in the name of the dainty-footed Buddah … Continue reading →

I have a suggestion — the first guy this man ought to hunt down and kill is whoever designed his outfit: You can tell DC put this out during the Image-imitating Nineties, with the atrocious sausage-thighs, spittle-teeth, and oversized shoulder … Continue reading →

Sometimes, ideas should just stay in the editor’s pitch room. Sadly that didn’t happen in the case of Armored Spider-Man: Spider-Man’s actual costume is a classic, with bold simple colors, the eerie eyes, and of course the webbing that really … Continue reading →

His name is “Dreamkiller”, and apparently the way he kills the most dreams is to draw pointed attention — literally — to his enormous crotch: I can’t fathom any other reason for that giant arrow squiggling down his chest to … Continue reading →