Suggestion: New First Comics

I don't know if it counts as an example if these pictures come from two versions of comic #2. If it does, I think the Leaning on the Fourth Wall dialogue makes it an especially effective illustration.

edited 15th Oct '12 8:22:04 AM by dsneybuf

I don't get the image. It's confusing at best.

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Basically the cartoonist redrew a five-year old installment of the series to make it look more like the more recent comics.

I think it's a little too subtle.

edited 15th Oct '12 9:52:17 AM by Willbyr

I originally had the whole panels (seen at the bottoms of these pages), but I feared they would become unreadable after I shrank them. http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=2&page=1 http://www.platypuscomix.net/electricwonderland/index.php?issue=16&page=1

Maybe if we focused on Trawn (the redhead) and NJ (the guy) instead of NJ and Shroomy (the blonde)?

edited 15th Oct '12 7:10:30 PM by dsneybuf

If the reader needs even more context, I could write a caption linking to both versions of the full comic.

I'd still like someone to tell me whether or not this even counts as an example, though.

edited 16th Oct '12 9:49:33 AM by dsneybuf

How's this? It artifacted quite a bit, but if this is good with everyone I can see if a PNG version looks better.

edited 18th Oct '12 8:36:18 PM by Willbyr

Wow, now there's a marked improvement in art style.

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It's more markedly a difference in style than an improvement, but either way it works much better than the previous suggestion.

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Yeah, the QC comic is probably the clearest example.

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I like the QC suggestion. Without the artifacting (I can shrink it more if necessary, but I don't think 275x450 is too big): [1]◊

edited 19th Oct '12 11:52:54 AM by bananasloth

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Looks good.

Only gripe is that the text in the speech bubbles is rather tiny.

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It's a good thing they're not important to the trope.

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Actually, the fact that it's the exact same dialog, and therefore the exact same comic panel, seems pretty important to me.

It's legible, but still kinda awkward to read.

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Yeah, I was wondering if they might be too small. And I agree that the text is important. Bigger bubbles:

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Much better. That gets my vote.

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Yep, better.

You could still tell it was the same dialogue, even if it was hard to read. I still think their positions is enough to illutrate the trope, though.

edited 19th Oct '12 12:51:17 PM by AnotherDuck

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16 FTW.

Bump...a couple more votes for the last version of the QC suggestion and we can run with it.

Add another vote from me.

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I went ahead and ran with the last version of the QC pic; it's up, potholed, tagged, and captioned. Locking up.