Just a Face and a Caption (new crowner 8/4/17): Fourth Wall Psych

I can't think of any other TV Tropes page image that relies on subtitles. While I wouldn't want to rule out using that, I do think ideally we should find something less reliant on dialogue.

Here's an XKCD example, to get the ball rolling...

That's not bad. As an alternate, there's this. Panels 1 and 4 or 1, 4, 5, 6 are good.

Either panel suggestion in 2 seems all right to me.

edited 2nd Jul '17 4:22:10 AM by TheUnsquished

Crowner's hooked.

I don't understand the 1+4 combo. It doesn't even begin to show the trope. Here's how 3+5+6 and 4+5+6 would look like.

edited 12th Jul '17 3:42:45 AM by eroock

Honestly, the best panel layout is 3+4+5+6.

I went with panel 1 because he's looking directly at the reader, which the trope is kinda predicated on, and because I liked the idea of keeping the reason unrevealed until the last panel.

If anything, revealing that he's sad about making bad webcomics while he's facing the audience enhances the psych that he's talking to the person currently reading the webcomic.

That said, either of the three panel versions that erorock provides is a good layout.

I've added those and 3 through 6 to the crowner.

Votes bump; only one in the green right now.

This is ready to call. The new pic's up and the tag's adjusted; caption?

Old pic:

Doesn't need one.

The Image Links subpage only has the chosen pic. Cutlist it?

Yeah, it's kinda pointless now.

No caption is needed.

Huh, I distinctly remember having an IP conversation about this trope and the previous image is voted over that exact xkcd suggestion. It's in the Image Links subpage because the other pic was chosen

edited 20th Jul '17 11:51:01 PM by Adept

Previous thread in question

Can somebody explain the joke in the winning image?

At first it looks like the guy has broken the border of the comic panel, but turns out it was the wall of some kind of spacecraft he was in.

But wouldn't that just be a subverted Panel Break?

It is both.

The trope is a subversion of Breaking the Fourth Wall, and Panel Break can be a type of that.

Is it too late to bring up the issue that the current pic already lost to its predecessor in a previous discussion, and that the latter wasn't even put in the new crowner?

It's really weird. I've just read the previous thread and the consensus was just the opposite. Someone also argued that Frame Break is just Medium Awareness, not Breaking the Fourth Wall... If they're right, we have a problem.

edited 22nd Jul '17 5:14:20 AM by Gosicrystal

Well, from this page's own description: