Too gory?: Fatal Family Photo

It gets the trope across nicely, but I dunno if a guy getting half his face torn off crosses the NWS line.

It does seems too gory for our purposes.

Most definitely too gory. *squick*

It being a B/W pic takes the gore aspect down a bit, but I definitely agree that we need to come up with something less...direct.

Seems fine.

That's going to be hard to do without spoilers or verbal lampshading...

It's gory, but not too visceral. I say keep. Like was said above, being black and white helps.

I don't see a problem with it. We're here to examine tropes used in fiction, including visual ones, not to censor and Bowdlerize them. I'm already bothered enough by the No Nipples policy, but I know that's a losing battle to fight.

I'm a libertarian.

edited 13th Feb '12 3:42:57 PM by Martello

Take your argument to google, since it's their rules we're sticking to so our ad revenue doesn't get taken away.

For irony of course.

I don't care about the gore in the current image, but that one is better anyway.

I like it, it is funny, free of gore and not a spoiler.

I like it. Where's it from?

Haven't a clue. I got it here.

To be fair, the current pic isn't a spoiler since the guy is a Red Shirt who is killed off in the same chapter he's introduced.

I was just pointing out the spoiler aspect because Adannor mentioned it.

Ah

Neck stab works for me.

While I have no problem with the gore in the current one, I can see how others would.

The suggested one is hilarious so it has my vote.

The new one is pretty funny. I'm thinking it's from one of our Field Manuals, clearly about how to silently kill a sentry. It must be an old one, since he's wearing very obsolete load-bearing equipment. I always found it darkly funny that FM images like this always show two soldiers who both look American, instead of the enemy looking foreign. I mean in terms of uniform.

Suggested image is funny and less violent, both of which are definitely pluses.

However, I do have a couple things I want to mention. The first one is that part of the W is missing (easy enough to fix in Photoshop). The second is that you can't see the photo at all, and its existence is completely reliant on the text.

Neither of these are really that big a deal, I just wanted to say something.

Retouched. Is it better?

Yes.

Personally, I'd put a little bit of white space between the two frames so their heads in the second panel aren't encroaching into the first...if everyone else is good with it as is, that's fine. The retouching helped a lot.

edited 17th Feb '12 4:08:42 AM by Willbyr