Down with this sort of thing?: Fetish Retardant

I'm not so sure. The silhouetted sex panel is precisely the one that makes us see that it IS a sex scene, but it doesn't work without a context (puking/pukey smootch panels). Also, there must be at least one panel with audience's reaction at the very end, but which one?

Oh yeah, and I actually don't really think we need to include the 'Sick it out baby' panel at all. Doesn't the one with kiss makes it clear that it's vomit on her mouth?

edited 2nd Sep '11 11:14:11 AM by OzzieScribbler

No, it could be just about anything. If we want to keep this worksafe, I'd say panels 1-4 are enough.

I don't think that the 'Kiss' panel makes it clear that it's vomit at all, if you haven't seen the whole comic. That's why I suggested adding in the 'Sick It Out' panel in the first place.

But then why shrink a key panel? Make it full size.

It just looks better, since the 2nd panel isn't the same size as the others.

Panels 1-4 of this would probably be best; it's obvious what's going on, but it isn't as NSFW as if we included the panel in bed.

Ok, how about those polished versions?

edited 2nd Sep '11 12:40:08 PM by OzzieScribbler

I like that one. I don't think we need to see the silhouettes to know what's going on, here. Also, too many panels can bog things down very quickly. My vote is for this one.

My only further suggestion is to shrink it down by at least a third.

Although I will second my last version if everyone else agrees on it, I couldn't shake the feeling that those two panels from the very beginning with audience respectively turned on and off would make the context complete, so I made this:

edited 2nd Sep '11 2:28:50 PM by OzzieScribbler

I prefer the three panel version. The first few panels aren't really necessary.

Yeah, in that version the first two panels aren't really needed since it's pretty clear what's happened in the "sick it out" panel. Also, to an earlier post, the "sick it out" really establishes what's happened...when I was looking at the first suggestions before reading the actual comic, I thought she was a zombie because of the flies and the squishy sounds.

So I guess it's set... Now, which version (with or without white spaces between panels) we choose and how wide should it be? And caption... Maybe "...that's no ordinary love scene", paraphrasing the source comic.

I vote no space between the panels. It looks good at 300 px (can't upload right now for evidence), but the fly's speech bubble is illegible. If that's not important enough to keep, then I'd say we could just run a 300 px version and be done with it.

edited 3rd Nov '11 10:27:37 AM by Willbyr

Clock is set. 300 or 350 pixels, and spaces or not?

I don't know, it looks to me as an example of Fan Disservice.

350 pixels with no spaces works for me.

The fly's speech bubble is illegible at either res, anyway.

Kissing a girl with a mouthful of sick seems intentionally gross; allegedly Fetish Retardant is a genuine attempt at something sexy.

Exactly.

Crap, you're right. It's gonna be tough to find a pic of that unless it has a lampshade hanging or something.

It does seem however that in-universe it's meant to be sexy. It's not perfectly clear, but it doesn't totally disqualify it.

I reclocked this one, since we need to determine if the suggestion works for the trope or not.

Well, this died. I'll go ahead and lock this; maybe the next thread will produce something.