I just spent $70 on ebay to buy the unfunnies "controversial editions" and my question is should I kill myself?
>>153907522As someone who has actually gone out of their way to read thisYou really should have known better.
>>153907539I really don't know anything about it other than the covers, the twist and that I like Mark Millar's Kick-Ass stuff, so I'm honestly expecting this to be the worst garbage I've ever read
>>153907522Bit late, no sense halfassing things.You won't get your money back, but you can maybe coax someone naive into trading for something else.
>>153907575What if instead I keep them forever and force whoever ends up with my shit after I die to look at a cover featuring a school shooting and try to sell it or throw it away, what then?
>>153907592Expect a very frugal funeral.
>>153907610I expect to be burned to ashes after being half eaten by cats or maybe a dog
yeah I HAD to read it as well, years ago. its so bad its actually insulting but I think that was the point. millar is a turd Im glad I pirated it.
>>153907522A Drawn Together for comic strips characters would be cool.
So is there a worse comic than this? I'm not talking about some random nobody who can't draw and is selling it at their local ice cream shop. I mean something more infamous than this. Something people still talk about.
>>153907565It's unfunny and try hard edgy. There is worse, but there is a reason this one is a Storytime of Pain classic.
>>153907843Crossed
>>153907522Mark Millar really just took a shit when making this didn't he?
>>153907941I don't know if I believe that since Ennis stock is on the rise
>>153908027But it IS infamous though.
>>153907522That was a waste of $70, but I don't know what your budget is like.
>>153908078I have about $300 a month I can spend on whatever I want. I went a little over this month buying comic lots to finish up a couple series but most of those lots can be resold so I'll be fine by July
>>153907522It really is one of the worst comics i've ever read, the only thing i liked about it was the aids twist
>>153907843Yoga Hosers
>>153907522I mean, I liked it, but I also chuckle at Max Hardcore scenes.Most of the hatred it receives is just performative.
>>153907522If you're contemplating suicide over reading a edgy comic book, it may be best for everyone if you follow through with it. Be sure to credit the book in your suicide note.
>>153907522It is sort of an interesting thing to have on your shelf in how utterly shit it is, OP. Maybe not 70 bucks worth of interesting or however many shelf inches it takes up but not worthless.
>>153909043It's more so that it does nothing really interesting or endearing or entertaining with its premise and is always an excuse to do the lamest shit possible everysingle time
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>>153909003Yoga Hosers has a comic????? That movie fucking sucks!
>>153909634It was the cheapest I could find them. Each issue was less than $14. Excluding shipping costs it was only like $50, maybe even $45.>>153909935Because I just found out about it a few weeks ago and I am a collectorfag, so having something this deranged on my shelf seemed amusing
What makes this any worse than anything else Mark Millar has put out
>>153912017could've just read it online
>>153909043I am curious to actually read it for myself. I grew up in the vulgar wave and it seems like pretty much everything from that era is being "reevaluated" by 2026 standards so it all "sucks" and "is the worst shit ever made" when really they are just genuinely offended by it. Even people like me, who grew up with that junk, seem to be going back to their old favorites and responding "oof ew this is heckin problematic" whereas I just do not give a shit at all. There is a slight chance I'll find it funny.
>>153912060"I'm a collectorfag"
>>153907522It literally says Mark Millar in big block text on the top, what the fuck did you think you were going to get?
>>153907522Mark Millar is another one of those writers, who were good as long as someone was standing over him, and told him "no", to his dumber ideas. But ever since he became super start, who can sell comics by simply putting his name on the cover, and no one opposes him anymore, the edge came out.
>>153912342Counterpoint- he was never good.
>>153907522the comic is something of a meta-interactive creepypasta. the art is crap, becuase it's suppose to reflect the in-universe author being a hack, and ripping off hanna barbera and so on. bad things happen, because again, the creaotr of this universe is a degenerate, who is in prison in real world, and is about to be sentenced to death. iroonically, the only way to defeat the bad guy is by closing the book, and never opening it againmajority of people read this literally as a misadventures of crow family, and the edgy, cynical degeneracies of the townsomeone should do page for page analysis of the story, and what each character and dialogue means, and the source of it between the two narratives
>>153912358See, and that's why I think there is hope that I will personally enjoy it. I love shit like that, plus the 2edgy4u is somewhat appealing just as a counter to all the toxic positivity bullshit we've been getting for the last 15 years
>>153913238just remember that everything about it is deliberate. if anything, you can argue that it's sometimes too meta, on too many layers
>>153913248and many things will make more sense, when you try to compare the things that happen in the world, with what happened to the creator / serial childkiller - like for example, the guy couldn't have kids on his own to his wife, and there is a character in the comic who has the same problem, and provides bulls for his wife (one of them having aids, which is revealed later), while at the same time, the doctors have a bet on who will collect more testicles from the healthy man - if taken literally, it feels needlessly edgy, but if taken into a context, that this is a product of a degenare serial killer, who couldn't have kids on his own, and hated doctors, suddenly it makes sense why he would portray them like this + the whole world degenerating not only because of his influence, but also, because he is inside the world, it's as if his mere presence taints the characters he interacts with. Some people will say that I'm overthinking this, but I can clearly see that Millar went for an anti-homage of the "comic funnies", with an existential horror + The Ring mixed in there
>>153913300This picture is probably the biggest hint as to how to "read" the story, as the killer is aware that he has an audience - hence, we're his victims too, in a way, as we indulge him, and make him "real" in a wayAnd the reason he looks like this, is because he's a 3D character downgraded to 2D reality, that's how they see him, because well, duh... they're only 2D
>>153913351additional lorein occultism, in order to trap others through magic, you need their free will, as such, they have to enter the sigil (in this case, the comic book) willingly, and you have to tell them who you are, what are your intentions and what is your goal.that's why he explains it in the story, but he's not explaining it to the cops, he's doing it for the readers, in order for them to be compliant - hecne the too meta thing / creepyasta / The Ring cursed stuff.
>>153907522its not bad, its just average
>>153912358ironically enough pedophiles do get away with their crimes, its disturbing but mark millar was ahead of his time
>>153913432this might be another layer, to already many layers of the unfunnies, the choice of title itself indicates many things at the same time
>>153909043No, it's just shit>>153912061SoP Weekend is about 8 weeks away, you can see how awful this comic is for yourself.
>>153913696It's too late. I already spent $70 on it. Two of them were already shipped this morning.
>>153907522Yes, absolutely. Why the fuck would you or anyone else actually spend money on this shit
>>153912061nta but I fucking hate this idea of "this shit isn't shit, it was just popular to say it was shit at the time!"Yes, things can be re-evaluated over time, but sometimes crap was always crap. You can have guilty pleasures, just don't act like that gallon of piss is apple juice>>153913696>SoP Weekend is about 8 weeks awayI hope it's busier than last year's... fuck, that was depressing.
>>153914188>I already spent $70 on it.
>>153914290Did you not read the op? Tell me to kill myself and move along>>153914239Same, but I do feel the concept of holding past art to today's moral standards is just as stupid. If it's really as bad as everyone says I'm about to find out for myself.
>>153914577>Tell me to kill myself and move alongI would settle for you castrating yourself, I'm satisfied as long as you don't pollute the gene pool with your stupidity.
>>153907522Controversial editions? Is that a new print or something?
>>153912061Unfunnies was considered bad back then, it's different from say, 2000s Marvel comics or The Boys getting "reevaluated" in the 2020s
>>153913432Well to go further, Unfunnies was originally intended to be in the same universe as Chosen and Wanted, and Wanted was where the supervillains took over the world and secretly run things.
>>153913300There's also the fact how the policeman in the in-universe comic is sort-of named after one of the guards at the end of the story
>>153917403It still is. Hell, probably Nefflix owns it now.
>>153914910Too late for that, too >:P
>>153915405No not a new print, they're the covers that depict things like prison rape, a school shooting, etc.>>153917378That may be true, but I'm still excited to read them for myself and decide if they're so bad they're funny or if they're so bad they're boring
>>153907941In terms of violence there's also Red Room which I never see get brought up like Crossed.
>>153907522The murderous pedophile who swapped places with Frosty Pete is visible photographically at the end (or rather, Frosty Pete in Troy Hicks' body).The photo model is Millar's stepfather.
>>153918727hmmmmm very curious
>>153907885>It's unfunny...what did you expect from the "the unfunnies"?
>>153913351Yeah that's Millar's stepfather who is mercifully dead now
>>153918650Not that well known, even with the fuckery that went down with the creator offing himself.
>>153918435Keep in fact that in first printings some minor characters look different to how they looked in subsequent reprints because they looked too much like Hanna Barbera characters.
>>153918935Millar had a section of his website dedicated to all his indie collaborators and removed the artist from it because having to recall, destroy and reprint those books erased most of the profits it had made. He now does not even list the title anywhere on Millarworld. The thing Mark didn't do was hire an artist based on their first-hand experience drawing funny animal books because those kind of artists would kill themselves before tracing work belonging to other industry people living or dead. But they'd also charge more than Williams.
>>153918399Oh no it's nooo-ooot...
>>153917869>probably Nefflix owns it nowThey paid him millions for Millarworld and then discovered his works are dreadful without top end script doctors. And the fungus spreads>Argylle
>>153913351This panel gives me the vibes of an Autistic Deviantart Comic
>>153907565>>153907522I liked it. It's far from being the edgiest thing ever, anons exaggerate. And it has some good things that everyone overlooks
>>153907843Wanted.
>>153907843Just like finding some random shitty webcomic online that has never graced an editors eyes is low-hanging fruit, I think counting all these shock value comics is low hanging fruit too.Millar knows exactly what he’s doing. He WANTS to be on the worst comics lists, because to him there is no bad publicity. People will still take the bait and look at it and talk about it and keep the cycle going. Shit like Crossed, hell even tamer Big 2 shit like Avengers Arena that existed only for rage clicks, they can all fuck right off.The actual worst comic titles should only go to actual sincere efforts that just fell flat on their face and never intended to be on a “worst of” list. There’s a reason people still talk about the Room, but nobody gives a fuck about random SyFy giant animal movie #53, or why /v/ will forever laugh at Concord but not even blink at Dreamworks shovelware game 10 for the PS2.
>>153912061You sound alright, anon.
>>153909935I love the snow!
>>153907522I love the rape scenes in it
>>153922321>>153922756two different kinds of anon
What are the chances that youtube video essays create a rise of interest for this thing just like they did with the crossed comics
>>153924569Probably zilch because there's no way to even discuss a comic like this on youtube. I only found out about it by happenstance because I was trying to finish off my collection of Kick-Ass comics and a listing for The Unfunnies got recommended to me.
>>153920791That's fair. I'm honestly pretty entey level into comics so I haven't read all that much and am only recently getting back into the hobby. What do you think is the worst ever? Based on what your describing maybe Squirrel Girl?
>>153924569Should I?
