Poor Image: Chronic Hero Syndrome

I just wanted to say that the text on the comic is blurry and can't be read. I would like to request a higher resolutiom version.

Perhaps it's just me but on my 11 inches laptop is unreadable.

edited 4th Jul '12 10:05:34 PM by FallenLegend

It's barely readable on my 24' monitor.

It also looks like a whole comic page, and it's much too long.

On the other hand, it does parody the trope. It's less an illustration of the trope and more a story of the trope, though.

edited 5th Jul '12 3:23:28 AM by Feather7603

We need to find the source strip and pull a few panels from it...I dunno if that's the entire thing or not, but it seems that way, and it's illegible to me.

Yeah, that's way too tiny to read.

This is the source.

Concerning copyright, their FAQ page apparently has this to say: Q: Can I post one of your comics on my site?
A: So long as you don't remove the link at the bottom, go for it.

I think just the first four will work; even though we're allowed them all, that doesn't make it better. Getting readable text at that size will be tricky, though.

I'd prefer frames three through six.

That works as well, and the last panel could be the caption.

The first four panels and the last three look unrealated to each other.

, I like that plan.

Plain shrinking doesn't work (the text still can't be read), so here's a version with basic text replacement. I had to change the wording a bit to make it fit; if anyone can not do that, it'd be good. I have a version with "space buts" rather than "dammit", but it's slightly too long so I'm posting this one.

edited 7th Jul '12 11:44:08 PM by Telcontar

Nice.

Works for me.

Sure.

Uh, I think we should tread really carefully on the whole alteration of text thing. This is a pretty minor case, but we've had instances in the past of needless alterations being done to pics, and even though it's really not gotten anyone into trouble, it's really made us look bad.

In some cases, like this one, it just isn't readable any other way. Out of interest, how does it make us look bad?

"...we've had instances in the past of needless alterations being done to pics..."

What? When? It's fine.

Still seems kind of hard to read tho :)

edited 9th Jul '12 1:23:56 PM by rodneyAnonymous

There was an instance a while back where an Order Of The Stick pic used as a page illustration was altered so that a character had red eyes to emphasize anger, when the original had the usual black eyes. This was caught and brought up on the official forums (oh, yes, and the creator has been known to be a little leery of his art being used this way - the alteration was just an additional "insult").

It was returned to its original state, but I believe the pic itself has been replaced since then.

And in that case it was changed back (Miko's eyes were red on Mattress-Tag Gag) as soon as someone (on the OotS forum, of course) noticed it was odd. And nobody asked us to change it or otherwise got in trouble or whatever. The alteration was for no good reason. And it is one incident from a year and a half ago. Thread: [1]

Also an artist's vision or intention or preference or whatever is not actually very important to Image Pickin'.

edited 10th Jul '12 10:04:05 PM by rodneyAnonymous

I don't think the comic works anyway. This one seems too complicated for a pic.

Clock is set. Any objections to going ahead and pulling the pic because of the illegibility problems?

edited 20th Aug '12 4:21:54 AM by Willbyr

Pulling completely or replacing with #12 as a quality upgrade? I don't think the current is pullable bad, and the replacement suggestion in #12 is better.

edited 20th Aug '12 4:40:39 AM by AnotherDuck

I'd replace with 12, yes.

Alright, I've switched out the current for the version in #12, but I still want to tinker around with the full strip. I'm going to re-clock this thread...hopefully I can get what I want to try done tonight, as I'll be out and about all weekend.