Does Not Illustrate: Sexy Spectacles

So this is supposed to be an In-Universe trope about a character's glasses being noted as an attractive feature by other characters. The current image is just a character with glasses.

How about the bottom panels of this image◊? At least the implication is there.

edited 28th Nov '13 2:15:36 PM by captainpat

That's not bad, but trying to work around the overlapping speech bubbles could be awkward. Some arrangement of panels from this might work better.

The one in the OP I could barely see the glasses, and in the second post I just saw text and someone with a glasses fetish.

edited 29th Nov '13 12:18:47 AM by AnotherDuck

The current image seems to entirely rely on the reader(s) having a glasses fetish. That's as obtuse as an image can get. I vote to ditch.

I can't see any glasses at all in the @1 suggestion, and @3 is a candidate for a page quote if anything.

Too much text in the suggestions, not enough illustration. All we really need is a sexy woman in glasses. [1]◊ [2]◊

The first is a little too fanservicey to use as a page pic; the second is pretty good...and she reminds me of one of my co-workers.

I agree with all of the above. Except it's the other one who reminds me of someone I used to know...

to 6.2 here, 6.1's too much.

where do you work? at a modeling agency? o_O

edited 5th Dec '13 6:46:06 PM by ShanghaiSlave

"All we really need is a sexy woman in glasses."?! Seriously? Isn't avoiding exactly that sort of attitude, like, a huge problem with appearance "tropes"?

"Please restrict examples to those in which glasses are are noted In-Universe as being part of the character's appeal, the glasses are an inherent part of their characterization, or that have Word of God confirmation. If it's primarly fans who think the glasses are sexy..."

It should be clear somehow that the character is attractive because of the glasses, or at least that the character is trying to appear sexy (e.g. GWMHYH), not just a character that is subjectively (!!!) attractive and happens to be wearing glasses.

edited 5th Dec '13 6:53:09 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Oh, I only wish. I meant she looks like a co-worker in the face, not that the overall package is similar.

The Walkyverse comic linked on the page lampshades it; pretty much any combination of panels will do.

edited 5th Dec '13 10:20:31 PM by Willbyr

That comic seem to emphasize a character's glasses-fetish rather than a character having glasses as a part of his/her character appeal. In fact, that TV announcement seem to indicate the inverse of this trope.

Speaking of lampshade, I thought of the last panel of this page (the left one). Not sure if it gets the whole point across without the other panels though.

^^ I like 1+3.

^ That is super-closely related, 10 is the best suggestion so far IMO. 11 seems too busy.

edited 5th Dec '13 11:45:17 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Fair enough. If we're going to use that comic @10 though, I'd choose panel 3 + 4, since the first two panels is pretty much discussing about how glasses are NOT sexy, which lampshades more on The Glasses Gotta Go rather than this trope.

Seconded.

4 seems irrelevant to the trope. Wouldn't 3 by itself be better? (Except 1 explains more what he is upset about, thus 1+3.)

How about this modified version◊ of the David Willis comic? It condenses the first two panels into one, presents the third unaltered, and drops the fourth.

+1

edited 7th Dec '13 12:04:47 PM by treelo

Seems OK for me. Especially the way he's gaping at the screen in the first panel.

16 works for me.

I like it

edited 7th Dec '13 1:04:18 PM by LeGarcon

That's someone with a glasses fetish, not glasses that make someone hot.

"Both, or only the latter" is a better way of putting it.

No. I don't see the trope. I see a reaction to what's said to be the trope.

Ah, but is not a reaction necessary for this trope? It is an in-universe trope, in part dependent on reaction by other in-universe characters.

Just posting a picture of a "sexy" woman in glasses is arguably less fitting for this trope. Nothing says if there is an in-universe opinion of it, and the picture itself can be a matter of opinion: not every such picture of that type suggested thus far have been of women I would call "sexy."

edited 7th Dec '13 3:12:58 PM by Yotsuyasan