Er...what?: Cut Lex Luthor A Check

Aside from the text being too small for me to read without squinting, it just looks like a kid in class or reading a newspaper or something, and even with the speech bubble it's still a lousy image.

Pic quality notwithstanding, the text is plenty large enough to read for me. Are you sure nothing's wrong with your browser again? You noted similar problems in other threads.

Yeah, when reading something in a forum. But even at full size, the text on this is still too small.

Really? The text seems rather large to me. Are you sure there's not something messed up on your settings?

I kinda have to squint a little, but it's readable.

Could be better, though.

It doesn't demonstrate the trope.

Hmm, what would a good image for this trope look like? We have to show evil power being used for legitimate, legal monetary gain? So...like, first panel, "I have awesome power!", second panel "I am using this power to get rich without resorting to evil."?

edited 13th Feb '11 10:38:44 PM by troacctid

[1]◊ Number 2 showing how he has gone legit with Starbucks?

or [2]◊

edited 13th Feb '11 10:40:49 PM by Raso

Those are the same image. And while it does sorta work, he doesn't look especially villainous.

We have to show evil power being used for legitimate, legal monetary gain?

What is an "evil" power, though?

hmm he seems kind of evil to me since he used Time Travel to buy starbucks when it was starting out so now they are rich... but good point.

This was suppose to be the other image.

edited 13th Feb '11 10:55:21 PM by Raso

Second and third panels of this◊?

I'm having trouble picturing this.

Didn't Captain Planet have that episode where they have that shrinking machine used to shrink garbage?

Regarding the current text, it's borderline for me. I can read it fine, but it's just small enough that it's slightly annoying to do so.

The larger problem is that it doesn't illustrate the trope, of course.

Here's a near-literal example from Blackhawk.

Caption: "Winston Churchill shows how it's done!" (Just kidding - it is Churchill, though.)

Edit: Actual suggestion: "As often suspected, Churchill's is bigger than Hitler's."

edited 14th Feb '11 5:58:44 AM by suedenim

I think just that second panel would work, actually. Though it is a bit JAFAAC in that the illustration doesn't add much to the text it contains.

I like Angry Scientist's suggestion.

Bump

bump once more

I think I like Angry Scientist's suggestion a little better than the Churchill pic.

I get a 403 error when I try to click on Angry Scientist's link. What's in it?

Cropped from the relevant strip◊ of Shortpacked: (view image for wiki size)

edited 19th Apr '11 7:12:05 PM by Willbyr

I'd prefer something that works without text, but that's the best I could find.

edited 19th Apr '11 7:13:32 PM by AngryScientist

I like Churchill better cuz it's not just Talking Heads. I don't like Talking Heads. They don't offer much, visually.

If you can find a pic that illustrates this trope without any text, my hat's off to you.

(No offense to this particular poster, because I'm not specifically calling you out or anything, but I'm starting to understand the irritation some feel towards others who try to make sure there's no text whatsoever in any suggestion on this forum.)

edited 19th Apr '11 8:19:56 PM by Leaper