Once again, we got Cyriaque Lamar to track down the most awful covers with the biggest heads. Here are the 20 most horrific selections, with Cyriaque's commentary. And seroiusly, what is with those Italians?

Additional reporting and writing by Cyriaque Lamar.

An illustrator and animator, Goodin receives several submissions each week for Covered, posting images based on a wide variety of comics, from Marvel and DC's superhero books to Disney and romance comics. Below are just a few of the dozens of comic cover covers featured on his blog.

[Covered via Underwire]

Nexus #13: Original by Steve Rude, Cover by Paco Afromonkey
Avengers #221: Original by Ed Hannigan and Joe Rubinstein, Cover by Jon Adams
Tales of Suspense #89: Original by Gene Colan and Frank Giacoia, Cover by Mark Todd
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Movie II: Original by Jim Lawson and Lavigne, Cover by Will Dinski
Millie the Lovable Monster #4: Original by Bill Woggon, Cover by Alessa Kreger
Dr. Who #3: Original by Dave Gibbons, Cover by Lisa Hanawalt
Captain America #2: Original by Joe Simon, Cover by Danny Hellman
Brave and the Bold #68: Original by Mike Sekowsky and Murphy Anderson, Cover by Matthew Allison
Green Lantern #122: Original by Dick Giordano, Cover by Mark Grambau
GI Joe #1: Original by Herb Trimpe and Bob McLeod, Cover by Ryan Dunlavey

According to Orbit, here are the five titles from which the absolute worst will be chosen:

• The Thing with the Glass Buttock
• Rise of the Fallen, Book Seven, The Pre-Antepenultimate Battle
• A Stain Upon The Vastness
• Across a Trembling Sea the Cyborg Fairies Dance
• An Old Dragon, A Dead Witch, and a Fat Guy: The Third Book of Stories that Go Nowhere.

I really hope they don't screw up the Old Dragon, Dead Witch and Fat Guy book — that was one of my favorite series growing up. The winner will go on to have a stunningly terrible cover created for it, and we can't wait to see the end result. Click the link to vote for your favorite. [Orbit Books]

Orbit is seeking suggestions for a title and blurbs, to come up with the worst book cover of all time, and I bet we can help:

Over the next few weeks we'll be asking for your help coming up with the most ridiculously bad high-concept SFF book cover in the universe – think Wyvern II: The Wyverning, or Martian Under the Doormat. (We know you can do better) Once we've settled on the titles we'll work out the reading line, the blurbs, and cover elements. And then, with your help, our fearless Orbit US Creative Director Lauren is going to design a cover for it that will present it in all its mad glory.

I have great faith in the ability of the internet to spawn some truly awful science fiction book ideas. But just in case someone is lacking for inspiration, here are some truly hideous covers to make your eye-sockets bleed:

Honestly, the only thing that's wrong with any of these covers is their heinous inclusion of the words "The Complete Series" instead of "Season One." But that's not the cover designer's fault.

The new DVDs contain all the episodes, including commentary tracks on the "The Pilot Episode Sanction," "The Cursed Tuba Contingency," "The Clotharian Contamination Protocol" and "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome." And there's a disc of special features:

1 Deleted/Extended Scenes
2 Weekly Javicasts
3 The Middleman-ager
4 Gag Reel
5 Casting Sessions
6 The Wilhelm Scream
7 Original Opening Title Sequence Animatics
8 Original Opening Title Sequence
9 "The Palindrome Reversal Palindrome" Table Read
10 "Scream Ur Luv 4 Me" Music Video
11 Scripts
12 A Gallery of Photography by Ralph King

The Middleman, The Complete Series DVD set will be released July 28, but you can pre-order it now. Why risk forgetting?

[Shout! Factory]

I was not surprised that our many io9 rock gods recognized most of the covers, and I was chagrined that I accidentally included two Queensryche covers. (But come on. Queensryche's covers are like science fiction gold!) I was, however, stoked to discover that a lot of the covers got pretty evenly divided votes, including some of the more obscure albums like Terraforming and Wolfmother.

Most people thought the Budgie album and Expect No Mercy by Nazareth were book covers. And most people thought Ellison's The Beast That Shouted Love At The Heart Of The World and Norman Spinrad's Little Heroes were album covers.

Here are all the covers we featured, plus a few more that we almost used:

A number of great present-day cover artists are blogging now, but Borgman may be the first classic 1960s pulp cover artist to start a blog. He talks a lot about the process of painting his book covers, which frequently used himself as a model. I love the fact that he admits he didn't read most of these books at the time, and says things like, "I have no idea what these glowing round things are, but they were done with an airbrush." I bet Philip K. Dick wouldn't have minded.

Borgman only did a handful of science fiction book covers, but he also did a lot of weird comic-book art and commercial projects, including this great "Plastics" ad, and the slightly abstract astronaut drawing. [Harry Borgman Art]

Top image from Mark Bult. [Russian Science Fiction]