Poor Image: No Mr Bond I Expect You To Dine

Demonstrates the trope, but Dr Doom's text is too small to be able to be easily read.

It's also eye-wateringly oversaturated. I'll try to enlarge the speech bubbles but I don't think it'll help much since there's just so much text that bigger bubbles might block out most of the picture at a legible size. Which brings me to my next point: there's a little too much text.

Got a suggestion for a better one? It's not bad enough to pull without replacement.

It's really simplistic, but there's the first panel of this.

Here are two versions of the current with larger text (and with non-primary colours..): 300◊ 350◊. At 300, it's legible but still kind of an eyestrain. At 350, it's pretty easy to read, but the image is a little too big.

edited 19th Oct '12 4:43:15 PM by bananasloth

The description itself is pretty big (at least on my laptop) so either of those would work fine.

I had less trouble reading the 350, but the 300 hurt my eyes less, as the blurriness is less noticeable.

I like Willbyr's suggestion better than the resized pics.

I also vote for #4, better that the one we have right now.

Can others also vote?

There's almost no more spaces for Image Pickin' threads and I want to finish this one.

This◊ is the highest-resolution copy of current I've found yet. We could probably make a crisper 350 based off of it.

Not a fan of 4, tbh.

5.2 is good for me. Willbyr's image is a bit weaker on the "talking to the good guy/target" part of the trope.

That's the one I used. But I have to admit the 350 was blown up from the 300 because I am an idiot and forgot to save the modified version at original size.. I just put the 350 up to show how big it would be. If you guys think that would work best, I can redo it from the original.

It's actually perfectly legible with just a crop and resize to 350: [1]◊. But I can still make the bubbles larger if needed (this time from the original..)

edited 22nd Oct '12 12:33:35 PM by bananasloth

Yeah, I think 5.2 with crisper bubbles would be best.

I mean, they're legible in , but I liked the bigger size from 5.2 better.

edited 22nd Oct '12 12:35:26 PM by ShadowHog

How's this? The image was shrunk to 50%, the bubbles to 60%:

Works for me.

Is there any way to get rid of the bubbles entirely? I think the pic would be fine without them. Even if, somehow, you don't know who Doctor Doom is, he looks pretty obviously evil, and he's setting up an overly elaborate table spread, which is what this trope is about. I for one never bother to read speech bubbles in pics if they're more than a sentence or so, maybe two. If a pic actually takes effort for me to read, then I don't think it's doing its job.

^There is a hero missing, though.

Just add a caption saying something like "Doctor Doom always welcomes his enemies in style". Before you go screaming JAFAAC on me, consider that adding that caption would basically say the same thing Doom is saying in all those speech bubbles in a much more succinct and clear fashion. I thought clarity was one of the goals of IP, and if a caption can produce more clarity, then I'm all for it.

I actually like the Irregular Webcomic one better. It's less wordy.

I found a version of that panel without speech bubbles.

edited 30th Oct '12 7:35:31 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Bananasloth's version is perfect. Text is both legible and pertinent.

edited 30th Oct '12 7:45:18 PM by suedenim

But not concise. Goal: Clear, Concise, Witty. Fails on the second count.

Clear trumps the other two, though.

I don't think any of them trump any of the others. That word implies low trump beats high non-trump, like Nine of Spades beats King of Diamonds, or that for clear/concise/witty med/low/low is better than low/high/high. They may be in descending order of importance, but "trump" exaggerates the relative importance.

I don't think the very-wordy speech bubbles are significantly more clear than not having any speech bubbles; that sacrifices a lot of concision for a tiny bit of clarity. Small clear gain does not trump large concise gain.

Some individuals might decide one is in fact better than the other, but it's not an automatic rule that more clear is always better no exceptions. Personally, I think a lot more witty or a lot more concise is easily better than a little more clear.

(Also 15.1 is really big, too tall to fit entirely on my netbook screen.)

edited 31st Oct '12 4:12:38 PM by rodneyAnonymous