Just a Face and a Caption: Insult To Rocks

There's an image of Batman's face, which has nothing to do with the page. In a lengthy set of thought balloons, the trope is named once. That's really not a good image.

This strikes me as a decent replacement.

Edited by Spark9 on Dec 11th 2020 at 3:20:52 AM

Opened.

Pull current regardless of replacement. The OP is an improvement, but I'm not really fond of that either.

The OP is more directly illustrating A Degree in Useless IMO. (Can we use entire SMBC strips? I keep forgetting.)

The author said they were fine with it in the past, so I assume so.

Pull current regardless. Iffy on the suggestion for reason mentioned .

Way too texty. Pull.

Needs to be made transparent:

That's why I checked the wicks

Edited by Synchronicity on Dec 17th 2020 at 6:03:33 AM

Pull current.

Looking at the Webcomics folder, and can't find a good one that's doesn't violate ROCEJ.

Edited by ccorb on Dec 17th 2020 at 7:02:18 AM

Yes to that.

7 > current > OP

7 is talking heads.

So are most images based on dialogue tropes (like Insane Troll Logic).

(struck, see below)

Edited by Spark9 on Dec 21st 2020 at 1:31:53 AM

It's summarizing the *dialog trope* in two sentences.

I was responding to Adept, my bad.

Edited by Synchronicity on Dec 17th 2020 at 9:53:05 AM

I know; I’m not arguing against it.

Just for comparison, here's the panel from Enemy Ace mentioned in the comic book section (although probably one would want a better quality version of that image).

7: Hey, it's not nice to compare lions to bricks. They're the most important species in their ecosystem.

I think I'd prefer that to 7.

What about this◊ from Ace Attorney?

Not sure that's this trope... it's more like Literal-Minded, because he's misconstruing "birdbrain" as an insult to birds.

I liked 7, but the more I read it, the more I think that being compared to a lion is not necessarily an insult. 17 is really good, but has a bad quality. I'm not sure about 20. It's less texty than 17, but 17 fits the trope better and is also funnier.

If we can get a more easily readable version of 17, that gets my vote.

The character does expound on why it’s an insult to lions. I can try and compose something next time I’m on PC.

I understand that. He means it negatively in context; I meant I’d try to get that.

Edited by Synchronicity on Dec 21st 2020 at 2:37:04 PM

The problem is more that it's not clear why getting compared to a lion is an insult to Sir Drakon. Lions are typically seen as virtuous animals, representing strength, courage and power.