Suggestion: Stating The Simple Solution

The trope currently has no image. I would like to put up part of this strip, but I'm not too good at cropping and moving panels around. Do people like this idea, and can somebody help?

Good idea in principle...no idea how well it would resize/crop for our needs.

Isn't this trope when someone suggests the simple solution, rather than simply going out and doing it?

Although if this gets support, I'd be happy to crop and re-arrange panels. That ridiculously expensive photo software has to be good for something, right?

EDIT: What about This strip◊?

edited 7th Mar '12 6:13:16 AM by ccoa

I really like ccoa's suggestion.

Quick-and dirty crop and resize:

Well, that was easy...works well enough for me, although someone may want to see it on a white background.

Looks good to me, thanks!

White background:

edited 7th Mar '12 8:42:02 AM by Madrugada

That looks good, except for the bit above the second panel and the black between it and the third panel.

I'm still iffy on if that image is actually an example. The trope is about people suggesting the simple solution, and that's someone simply doing the simple solution. It might fit, since Tropes Are Flexible, but it's not the typical form of the trope as defined.

I'm a bit confused, the trope description says: "There is a problem. A dramatic, elaborate, and dangerous (and sometimes, pretty darn cool) solution is proposed to solve it. Then some other jerk points out that a much simpler Mundane Solution exists."

Is that even happening in the Girl Genius image?

Yeah this is a dialog trope. That image is not an example.

Well, yes. The mundane solution is unplugging the machine.

I know that, but the trope is about one character creating a long and complicated plan for something only for another character to suggest a much simpler solution, whereas in the picture one character assumes that there isn't any solution and then another character proves him wrong. I suppose it's slightly related to the trope but it isn't really an example of it.

edited 7th Mar '12 4:18:04 PM by GingerSnaps

Bump. Again, the Girl Genius image isn't an example of the trope but the suggestion in #3 is.

Single-panel comic.

I guess just leave the page imageless.

Seconding ccoa's suggestion.

edited 6th Apr '12 11:08:35 PM by abk0100

Clock is set.

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. No action is to be taken based on this thread.