Suggestion: Monster.Stephen King

We talked about this image◊ in the Monster clean-up thread as a possible page image for the Monster.Stephen King subpage.

It's promo art of King's seminal bad guy Randall Flag for the Marvel comics series of The Stand. He looks suitably evil, almost demonic even, and standing on the skulls of his victims.

edited 13th Dec '14 3:51:35 AM by Morgenthaler

Opening, although to me it looks like he's standing behind the the skulls.

I don't think that there's anything there that signifies that he's responsible for those skulls.

I think that's nitpicking. It works.

Maybe it's a difference of opinion, but given how malevolent he looks I think there's more than enough visual cues that he's a figure of pure evil spreading death around even if it's more symbolic than usual.

edited 14th Dec '14 12:58:40 AM by Morgenthaler

And even if that is not enough, a caption helps.

Actually, nevermind. It does work. It just looked so small on my monitor that I couldn't see the grin on his face. Is there a larger version?

edited 14th Dec '14 2:56:02 PM by Camberf

Here◊.

How does it look like this?

A little too large. I think usually about 275 px is a good width for tall images.

How's this?

The pic is good enough for me, especially if it's paired with a good caption.

Possibly here? Where he says he's the Devil?

edited 15th Dec '14 7:27:35 AM by ACW

That looks good.

I go by height instead of width for portrait images, usually 350 pixels tall; even though there isn't a technical limit, it's about the same size as a 350 wide landscape image.

The image in 11.1, for example, is 223x350 and looks great.

edited 26th Dec '14 9:08:22 PM by rodneyAnonymous

Now that I think about it, the image in 13.1 might work too. Has a quote that's usable.

I'm not seeing how the page in 13.1 would be better. He's killing one person as opposed to standing victoriously over a whole crowd of corpses, it would need a lot of editing to get the focus back on Flagg (the first panel in particular is redundant), and I think the text does too much of the work there.

13.1 is not a suitable image at all. Assuming that the ".1" is actually correct here.

Fair enough. I like the quote from 13.1 though.

I meant 11.

Image from 11, quote from 13.1?

Sounds like a plan.

Sure. Do we have a consensus at this point?

edited 21st Jan '15 10:59:29 AM by Morgenthaler

11 is too small to me, and I think we're in agreement 9 is too big. Since we seem to have settled on that image regardless, I'm taking a stab at something in the middle, using Duck's proposed 275px wide:

I don't understand the claim that it's small, it's about the same size as a 350-pixel wide 16x9 image.