Suggestion: Sufficiently Analyzed Magic

While I'm all for keeping a snip from the Girl Genius strip that co-named the trope, it occurred to me that the panel or two before the one displayed better illustrate the trope itself, while the current one is just Agatha in Mad Scientist mode saying the line.

Link to the comic.

For maximum exposition I'd go with the two panels before the quote instead of just the one. Three would be even more descriptive but harder to fit.

Good catch. I agree.

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Could there be a way to make the text a bit larger.

Not while staying under the 350px width limit. I poked at the sharpen filters in Photoshop but couldn't find a combo I liked that would work without a degree of manual fiddling that I shouldn't be spending time on right now (it improved the clarity of the text but messed with the rest of the colors, so I would have to mask out the speech bubbles).

I prefer the current image. Right next to the image there's already a big ol' description. I don't see the need for the image to be an entire conversation with moderately small text that may seem to illustrate the trope if I zoom in/stick my head close to the monitor and read it through a few times.

Would being just the last frame (which would then allow for larger size) be enough, does anyone think? Or cutting Zeetha out of the shot on the left since it's Agatha and the wand's dialog that carries it?

and Final, an ideal image is meant to illustrate the trope just as well as the description.

edited 7th May '12 9:51:59 PM by Elle

Descriptions describe the trope, images illustrate. I'm pretty sure there's a difference.

How about we use the image in post 3 in addition to the current? They're all frames from the same strip, adding them together makes for a better pic.

I don't really think that longer is better in this case.

Didn't we used to have that one here?

I'm afraid half of Elle's pic is the pic for Functional Magic, and i believe we try to avoid using the same image for 2 different tropes.

It fits here better than Functional Magic.

Clock is set.

Why do we need the second panel at all for this image? As far as I can tell, it doesn't really add anything and makes the whole thing much more of a chore to read. Which also happens to make it not overlap with Functional Magic, although admittedly that image is terrible for its own reasons.

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