This thread is meant to be a place for people to ask questions and request discussion about existing page images they have concerns about; this can be used to determine if a thread should be made to replace an image.
For example, questions about Just a Face and a Caption concerns, whether a picture requires additional context, whether a picture demonstrates all of the necessary aspects or a trope, or whether a trope better demonstrates a related trope can be asked here.
Opened and pinned. Are there any currently unlocked threads that need to be run through here?
In theory the initial discussion for Oddball in the Series and No Eye in Magic could have gone here. In practice, those threads have already progresses on a bit.
The Calling Me a Logarithm thread which hasn't been opened yet was one of my impetuses for creating this thread.
I haven't done a full scouring of existing threads, however.
The Calling Me a Logarithm image is in fact an example (see the full strip here), but I can see why it'd be confusing. The setup which explains why the word homophone is being used is in a different panel. Note the character's emphasis on the word "you're", which implies it is a response to the word 'homophone' being used by the other character. However, the fact the other character was using the word correctly is not clear without context.
Right. I think the solution is to add the half of the previous panel (the half with Belkar speaking), but that suggestion can be made here without necessarily starting a new thread.
Is Cover Identity Anomaly too redundant with Funny.Superbad? The one on the latter page does look a bit nicer visually, though.
Edited by jandn2014 on Jul 21st 2020 at 5:58:32 AM
back lol^ I have no issue with the duplication.
The image for Summon Bigger Fish appears to be a rogue image swap in May. I think it's simple to just revert it to the previously picked image.
The current also has some distracting white lines that are probably only visible on Night Vision.
Currently Working On: Incorruptible Pure PurenessThe current for Summon Bigger Fish is way too dark. I think we should open a thread on it.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.I can get behind former pic. Its overlap with The Beastmaster or whatever trope there is about mindcontrolling a beast is concerning. And both images miss the summoning part.
Brighter version of current:
The clip. Is that summoning?
Edited by eroock on Jul 24th 2020 at 1:36:15 AM
That’s better.
Edited by jandn2014 on Jul 24th 2020 at 4:37:52 AM
back lolThe actual summoning is a bit earlier, but it's a bit confusing since Trigon first gets to possess Superman, and only later shows up in his full demonic form.
Edit: somebody should also add the example to the page; it's from Justice League Dark: Apokolips War.
Edited by thok on Jul 24th 2020 at 2:13:44 AM
What's happening in Pupating Peril? Somebody being eaten? Somebody emerging from a cocoon?
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"I think the latter; the big brown mass is a cocoon and the humanoid thing is emerging from it.
It's not clear enough for me.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to us.Is this clearer?
Definitely.
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"It strikes me that Oven Logic is an image macro and JAFAAC (i.e. a random portrait accompanied by a bunch of text in a fancy font). What do people think of this?
I'd feel better about changing it if there was an obvious replacement. I'd argue the housewife's confused look makes it not quite Just a Face and a Caption, but the Image Macro argument is stronger.
Spark9 should get points for consistency on his opinion of the Oven Logic picture (he created the 2014 thread).
Edited by thok on Jul 26th 2020 at 5:54:11 AM
Hm, I had forgotten about that.
See, this is why I think a cutoff point for earlier threads is good. If more people than Thok and myself agree that this is really an image macro, then it should be pullable by current IP standards even if it was fine by the standards of six years ago.
So, start a separate thread for Pupating Peril?
You've got roaming bands of armed, aggressive, tyrannical plumbers coming to your door, saying "Use our service, or else!"
This thread is meant to be a place for people to ask questions and request discussion about existing page images they have concerns about; this can be used to determine if a thread should be made to replace an image.
For example, questions about Just a Face and a Caption concerns, whether a picture requires additional context, whether a picture demonstrates all of the necessary aspects or a trope, or whether a trope better demonstrates a related trope can be asked here.