10 Works of MS Paint Art Less Tacky than the New Black Flag Cover

Okay, so “Black Flag” is releasing a new album on Nov. 5, which hasn’t happened for 28 years, and it’s called What The… The real story here, though, is the truly awful cover art that you see below. Apparently Greg Ginn is no longer retaining Raymond Pettibon, the man who designed Black Flag’s previous cover art and is also, incidentally, Greg’s brother. The family feud is sad enough on its own, but it became tragic on a larger scale the minute this artistic monstrosity was unleashed on the general public.

Take another look to really let the vulgarity sink in:

It appears to be a depiction of a cartoon character simultaneously “rocking out” and possibly vomiting some type of green fluid. I can’t vouch for that, though, because the artist wasn’t what we in the business like to call “detail-oriented.” You may notice that the pink mohawk on the character’s head seems to be more horizontal than usual, yet also layered, so that it sort of moves diagonally back-to-front on his head. My favorite feature, though, is his left hand. I’m not sure what’s happening there on a genetic level, but it appears to be some kind of defect I’m calling “cactus fingers,” where the thumb and middle finger sort of grow out as stubby offshoots to the pointer.

In any case, I thought I’d do Black Flag a favor and find 10 MS Paint images from a simple Google search that are less tacky than the current cover. I’m sure they can be had on the cheap, Greg Ginn.