No image.: Wall Of Text

We can do this.

Ah, here we go, I knew I had a good example somewhere:

Sidney Mellon's Thunderskull!◊

It's a parody, thankfully, supposedly written by a young fanboy who's constantly giving his artist impossible tasks. I think the second panel is the "walliest," but some of the others look like the characters have to duck out of the way of the word balloons just to be visible at all....

Panel 5 might work, too.

edited 18th Nov '10 7:00:46 PM by suedenim

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How about a Literal Example from the "Get A Mac" Ads?

edited 18th Nov '10 7:05:45 PM by Mattonymy

It should be an image that's a bunch of text saying something like "While this may look like an image, it is in fact more text; however, it diverts attention away from all of the other text and makes it look like there's less text", or something to that extent.

Deboss' #2 is the shiznit....

There is a really sick pun in there somewhere.

Uploaded.

Here is a good one directly from the manga. (its readable when not shrunk by the forums.) [1]

There are a few more examples from Negima that might be a bit more readable I can dig up. This is the first one that comes to mind.

edited 18th Nov '10 7:30:51 PM by Raso

Does it need to be readable at all? At the very least, we're going to have a stocked ImageLinks.Wall Of Text.

edited 18th Nov '10 7:21:19 PM by Deboss

I think that, no matter what image we choose, we should at least have the caption be a Meta-Example of a Wall of Text as well, either visible or hottipped.

Either Deboss' 2nd or the Negima pic.

Deboss's #2 or Suedenim's panel #5. I kind of like the panel 5 one a little bit better

Yeah, I think Panel 5 has a nice "The words are seriously crowding out the action" vibe to it:

edited 18th Nov '10 9:10:35 PM by suedenim

In the case of Deboss' 2nd pic, I kinda wish the text was darker. I can hardly see it on my screen.

this◊ picture from Artificial Human isn't quite a wall of text but it is an example of what not to do is it not?

Yes. Although, it's less that it's a Wall of Text and more Show, Don't Tell.

I like the images where the text is literally interfering with the characters: Deboss's and suedenim's.

this It's funny, and also has the trope name.

also, it has the visual pun bonus.

How about this example from Irregular Webcomic?

^ That one would be perfect — except that it won't work at all when it's shrunk down to 330 pixels wide from it's current 815

Well you could rotate it 90 degrees but then uh...it would be rather...annoying. For lack of a better term.