Does Not Illustrate: And Then What

I have two concerns about this page's image:

• The trope as defined requires that there be a solid, potentially successful plan that lacks a proper goal. The current image, by contrast, shows a character who has a definite goal ("resolve disputes with dumb people/promote understanding") but hasn't properly worked out how to achieve it, which is more along the lines of Missing Steps Plan.
• The three-panel format makes me suspect that the image is using an entire strip (though I haven't been able to find the original strip to confirm my suspicions).

As far as possible replacements go, xkcd has this very detailed discussion (perhaps too detailed). Garfield has a couple strips that provide simpler illustrations, but we'd probably have to use 90% of a strip to make it work (by which I mean using the first two panels and putting the punchline in the caption), which doesn't seem like much of an improvement as far as copyright issues are concerned.

I think cutting the first panel off the current would be sufficient. The Garfield strips are good for examples but won't work for page pics, and I'm not sure what could be taken from the XKCD strip to work.

Cutting the first panel off the current removs the whole set-up that the mallet is supposed to increase understanding.

How about this jiggering of the xkcd ( I know, it's really tall... ):

edited 6th Jun '15 10:41:45 AM by Madrugada

That's still a lot of text, height aside. How about just the last two panels? Even then, I'm unsure.

I finally found the original ''Pearls'' strip; as I suspected, the current image is using the entire thing.

In the mean time, here are a couple Garfield strips that might work with just two panels: 1, 2

Both the Garfield strips would work if they weren't subversions of the trope.

edited 21st Jun '15 10:13:37 AM by eedwardgrey3

Clock is set. The current will be pulled regardless of what happens.

How about the xkcd comic with panels 1,2 & 5.

1. Make Site 2. Get Data 3. Do something?

Clock's up; locking for inactivity/lack of consensus. The current's been pulled for using the entire strip.

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