Suggestion: Harsher In Hindsight.Comic Books

Now that "Funny Aneurysm" Moment is merged with Harsher in Hindsight, this is something I'd like to get some consensus on. This is the image on the former's Comic Books subpage. Is there a consensus to move it to the subpage on the latter's?

No argument here.

Found a version with better colors◊ and cropped it:

That works with me w/ original caption.

Sure.

to the image crop.

Quick bump before the timer goes off

I'd prefer the full cover linked in post 3; the crop looks sloppy because you can see part of the Batman logo.

I'd say this doesn't look "harsher in hindsight", but more like a shout-out to an old conspiracy theory.

The DC wiki confirms that the Paul Is Dead conspiracy is from 1966, whereas this Batman issue is from 1970. So no, that's not this trope.

That's the point. They were referencing the "Paul is Dead" conspiracy theory, but then the image's significance took a turn when Lennon was assassinated later.

That does make more sense.

Honestly, how is this not "person dies" territory, according to the Hindsight thread?

Edited by FernandoLemon on Jan 28th 2022 at 5:06:51 PM

"A work makes a joke about someone in a group dying and then someone different in said group dies shockingly" is a couple of steps above "actor plays a character who dies then dies IRL", IMO.

Edited by Synchronicity on Jan 28th 2022 at 2:27:24 PM

Votes bump, two in the green, one in consensus eange.

I'm sure, but this is not "a work making a joke". This is "a work referencing a fictional death from a real group". Inevitably, somebody from that real group would have died at some point.

It doesn't work without it, though I'd prefer something better.

I want to make a The White Zombie Album joke, but I don't think that would fit the theme of the pic very well.

"Is it Paul or John?"

or, "We suspected Paul but it turned out to be John".

Edited by Spark9 on Feb 2nd 2022 at 8:19:56 AM

Second one's better.

21.2 is fine. It's added and tagged; locking up.