Not very illustrative: Wrong Genre Savvy

Relies too much on text and the caption to do the grunt work. I think we could do better.

Current caption:

:The Starship Captain... from a goofy buddy Web Comic, who politely dies in the very next panel.

edited 3rd Feb '11 11:29:01 AM by sgrunt

From Hitman, "Zombie Night at Gotham Aquarium":

Pulled.

Why pulled? It seems somewhat weak, but not worse than nothing.

He's genre savvy, but nothing says wrong genre savvy except for the caption. Splicing the two panels (or whatever) might work, but it doesn't show the trope.

I just added the surrounding panels, uploaded the resulting image, and used it.

Any objections?

Thanks
Luc "Not certain of the alignment" French

OBJECTION!

That image borders on illegible, and is of rather low quality. It also takes a lot of panels, and it's pretty much all text.

Sadly, that's because of the constraints of the current image uploading system. I've got a much better .png, but the current system limits us to 200k and 350px, which means that the results are going to be pretty ugly for an image of this scale.

If you want to take a shot at improving the result, go right ahead.

Thanks
Luc "Constrained" French

Unfortunately, even at 350 (remember, it's bigger than it looks on the forum software), I have to strain a bit to read the lettering - and experience tells me that if I have a slight problem, some others will find it a severe problem.

The first panel and the last panel, or maybe the first two panels and the last panel, should be more legible and enough to demonstrate the trope.

Replaced it with a higher quality JPEG:

Thanks Luc "JPLUG" French

Still too much text to read to actually get the trope across. I'm fine with a two panel comic (although even Suedenim's is even pushing it close for me) but 6 panels is too long for a trope image.

Just cut out the middle two panels and compress the top down. It removes a bit of the joke, but it still illustrates the trope.

EDIT: Here, have a quick edit. Somebody else can probably do a better job of it.

edited 26th Mar '11 8:48:30 PM by fishsicles

It's still very text heavy. The current page picture is the full comic, and that won't do at all. I got this off the Bogleech example on the page.

OK, that's funny.

That one is great!

This is good.

That's...hilarious. And great as an image.

That works really well.

I'm not seeing the 'great' there. Ok, he thinks he's in a zombie-apocalypse genre. What is the wrong genre that he's in?

edited 27th Mar '11 11:38:58 AM by Madrugada

Going off the definition- "it's possible for you to guess wrong about your role in the story, the genre of the story, or where on the various sliding scales your story is. Any way you spin it, it's still a common way of subverting Genre Savviness."

The characters are having their Genre Savviness subverted. The picture illustrates an application of classic zombie rules to a zombie that clearly isn't a standard zombie. The page quote specifically mentions this kind of thing- He's not in the role of "Heroic Zombie Slaying Survivor," he's the guy who gets mauled to show the subversion of zombie tropes.

Alternatively: He thinks he's in the zombie-apocalypse genre, but turns out to be in the surreal comedy genre.

He thinks he's in a regular Zombie Apocalypse. He's actually in a parody Zombie Apocalypse.

It seems a bit on the weak side to me, as there's not a clear genre at work so much as the character assuming Boom, Headshot! is in play, but it's a super-freaky monster who's apparently immune to headshots.

It's not just Boom, Headshot! that's at play here; the character is Genre Savvy toward Zombie movies in general, where "Headshot kills zombie" is a common rule. Which is subverted in this comic.