Needs an image.: Cliff Hanger

For the record, I'm not a fan of either the OOTS image or the comic panel you posted. Both have far more text than is needed to convey the trope. I just disagreed with your reason for not liking it.

Well, actually, a good image for the trope has two things:

1. : Something important in the process of happening
2. : Some sign that we won't see the result until the next installment.

Find a pic with both of those, easily recognized, and you've got a page image.

edited 13th Jun '11 12:56:06 PM by SalFishFin

Well, I'd decided to browse through all my Vigilante comics to see if there were any possible suitable cliffhangers. Found four that might fit, scanned them in, uploaded them, cropped them, and re-sized them. Personally (out of the images that I scanned), I think that the one with the fire and the one with the police pointing the gun at the Vigilante might be the most suitable. One of them may be too wordy, and I'm not sure how cliffhangy the other one is. But, I'll guess I'll let you guys decide.

Wordy one◊ Police pointing◊ Fire◊ Gone◊

I wish we could use something like this [1]◊ .....

If I was on the desktop, I could make the text prettier, but I think this works well enough; view image for wiki size.

Is that your Tune in next week there? I would prefer the background image to be less Literal Cliff Hanger.

Yeah, I just whipped that up...I was trying to portray the most outrageous kind of cliffhanger I could think of.

edited 16th Jun '11 8:41:40 PM by Willbyr

I really like that.

Damn. I managed to find a picture of a very cliffhanger-y ending from The Man From Uncle, where the protagonist is stuck in a cheesy death trap (I love that series). With a 'tune in next week' text over it, it would work as an image, be an example in-work, and not invoke Literal Cliff Hanger confusion. Unfortunately, the pic is grainy as eff.◊

Anyway, I think Willbyrs concept could work, though a picture not involving cliffs may be a better choice. I also think some of sparkykandy's suggestions may work after some cropping.

BIG SCREAMING EDIT!: I found a clear image of the scene!◊ I repeat, I found a clear image of the scene!

edited 17th Jun '11 4:06:54 AM by ArtisticPlatypus

I prefer the car one myself. It's a liter cliffhanger, big, and the tune in next week factor all portray this trope perfectly. UNCLE example I'm against only because it doesn't convey a sense of "See what happens next time." I could easily just see that as a death trap or such since nothing to tell it is a cliffhanger.

I'm in the same boat with the UNCLE suggestion...it works fine as a death trap, but I'm not getting a cliffhanger feel from it.

The Fire one is good and the car is good.

The car pic was edited together, right? We could just slap a similar text on the UNCLE one, and not even be lying. Besides, as I think I said, a picture being a literal cliffhanger could cause people to confuse this with, well, Literal Cliffhanger.

edited 17th Aug '11 8:10:31 AM by ArtisticPlatypus

You'd think somebody would've assembled a mix of the 1960 Batman cliffhangers to pick from ... but I'm not finding much on Youtube about it. Mostly just this.

Bump.

I added 'TO BE CONTINUED...' to the UNCLE picture (which, as I cannot stress enough, is an actual example of the trope) in a font as closely as possible resembling the one used by the series. I made two versions, one with the text at the bottom and one with the text in the middle:

edited 17th Aug '11 9:17:43 AM by ArtisticPlatypus

Either one of those are good...I can't really decide which one I like better, although I lean toward the one with the text in the middle.

I prefer the text centered, since the series that did use cliffhangers very often did splash the TBC across the center of the screen.

I like them.

Bump...any other thoughts?

That Rockwell looks very... natural. I support the centred version, too; any idea for the caption?

"Poe should sue someone."

We need to wrap this. The second version of the Man from U.N.C.L.E. pic is up and potholed; locking up.