Category Archives: Bad Super Costumes

If your super power is generating powerful winds, you might want to rethink your costume concept to not include a skirt: Also, underwear. I’m just sayin’.

In 1996, the two big comics publishing companies realized they could suck their customers dry with poorly conceived projects elevate their characters to a whole new level by doing what was essentially a series of mashups. In a hybrid effort … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the Eighties Seventies: Blue McDonald’s Man and his Magical Kazoo will surely help the Teen Titans in their battle against evil. I love that they’ve outsourced the bad-costume design part of the business to … Continue reading →

Emma Frost (aka The White Dominatrix) has for whatever reason become one of the top five pinup characters in all of comics. Unfortunately that’s put her in the line of fire for some of the most overly-sexualized costume designs the … Continue reading →

In the world of advertising and design, two groups inspire more fear than even the Mob or the Legion of Doom — the Girl Scouts of America and the International Committee of the Red Cross. Those people must have a … Continue reading →

Just because he was the King doesn’t mean Jack Kirby didn’t throw out the occasional stinker. And that the stinker wouldn’t come back and hit him in the face, like with the original Boomerang: Given the configuration of that helmet, … Continue reading →

With it being Independence Day in the US (celebrating the anniversary of the ratification of the Declaration of Independence, rebelling against the authority of Great Britain), I thought I’d take a look at one of the worst “patriotic” super-hero outfits … Continue reading →

No character in comics history has had as many distinctive costumes as Wasp from The Avengers. The fashion-forward Janet Van Dyne likes to look good when she walks (or flies) out the door, so you’re as likely to see her … Continue reading →

Completing our review of the Worst Avenger Designs in honor of the film, we turn at last to the Hulk. Since his entire outfit consistes of miraculously non-bursting purple pants, doing a true fashion review presents a major challenge. So … Continue reading →

If you’re standing next to Emma Frost and you’re the one people point at while shouting “That’s a horrible costume!”, then you, my friend, have achieved truly epic levels of sartorial psychopathy: It’s bad enough that Cyclops is wearing a … Continue reading →