Or you could, you know, defend your opinion. That gets a lot more results than stubbornness. I know that personally. Plus it's what I was basically asking in that comment you quoted.
That is unless you don't have one, in which case just admit it instead of making yourself look silly.
I'm on the internet. My arguments are invalid.Basically, I see preserving the original composition as something desirable in and of itself, so long as there's no other consideration that makes cropping necessary.
We actually do run into such necessity quite often in Image Pickin' (as noted, most commonly to preserve the legibility of a 350-pixel max image), but this isn't one of those cases.
edited 13th Feb '11 1:32:23 PM by suedenim
Jet-a-Reeno!Not sure about the crop. Both arguments have points. Cropped=bigger=clearer, but preserving the composition helps show that the latter is a direct reference to the former, which makes the image even better.
Infinite Tree: an experimental storyI don't get this. We don't need to establish that one picture is is a direct reference to the other * for the cropped images to work. Why does this even matter?
They just have to look alike and show a working comparison between one bloody and one non-bloody picture, which Catalogue's cut does extraordinarily well and efficiently at that.
edited 13th Feb '11 1:43:46 PM by SeanMurrayI
It helps because it shows that the latter image is a Bloodier and Gorier image of the first frame, not merely of the general situation. It's not a requirement. It's just an improvement.
Infinite Tree: an experimental storyWell, these two images work better than comparing the Silver Age Batman to the modern Green Lantern image I posted way uptopic, no? They're both DC comic books, so what would the problem be?
Obviously, comparing two Batman images from different eras, with the same "dead" character, is better than comparing unrelated characters. And the more other similarities, the better.
But my main concern, not to get too pretentious (especially since I have no qualms about mangling the art when necessary for troping purposes), is "respecting the art." Artists compose images in a certain way for a reason, and I don't like second-guessing the artist without some compelling reason to do so.
Jet-a-Reeno!A crowner between them works. Might throw in the Green Lantern thing just for good measure.
Infinite Tree: an experimental story^True. It's fairly clear cropped, but uncropped, it's even more clear.
Infinite Tree: an experimental storyWe certainly don't need The Comics Code badge or a work title in an image to respect any art. And the "art" present in what Catalogue cropped is irrelevant to what any of us need to look for in a trope page image, anyway; all we're looking to do is convey a trope—not showcase a comic book art exhibit.
edited 13th Feb '11 3:18:57 PM by SeanMurrayI
Well, we have a couple options with some support, so let's run a crowner. Link
They're Golden Age and Dark Age. Not sure of the exact dates.
edited 16th Feb '11 10:13:47 PM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickWell, thanks for stacking the deck by excluding the uncropped vertical version from the crowner. Results probably would've been the same, but why risk it?
Anyway, "Robin Dies At Dawn" is actually a Silver Age comic, cover date June 1963. The later scan is from [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman:_A_Death_in_the_Family
"A Death in the Family," from 1989-89.
edited 22nd Feb '11 4:29:38 AM by Catalogue
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
Crown Description:
Nominations for replacement images:

And disliking the form is not a reason not to use it, especially when one presents no proof that the rest of the images illustrate the trope, or are necessary to do so.
I'll be stubborn and obstinate on this, since people are always stubborn and obstinate on the other side. Let's see what results from a crowner, but I won't be bullied into a false consensus.
Jet-a-Reeno!