Needs Help: Lord Error Prone

So for Lord Error-Prone I spotted this article on a series of now Public Domain lithographs by Spanish cartoonist Pedro de Rojas: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/pedro-de-rojas-don-quixote-in-the-20th-century/

I thought a few of them together might work?

Initially I went with this image I posted on the main thread, which I've redone below sharper quality:

1.1 - I specifically went with 3, 1 to establish he's basically just playing dress up and the other two in order to show this is a pattern of behaviour not just a one off:

~Drope pointed out though that he looks more just an asshole than error prone in this though and even though a Lord Error-Prone can be an asshole (usually along the lines of Lawful Stupid or Chaotic Stupid but with a stubborn streak) I though they did have a point, so I have some other suggestions:

1.2 (Don Quixote vs a Stone Lion outside a bank and other escapades):

1.3 (Keeping the image that shows he's mostly playing dress up, but using some more error prone looking images rather than maliciously-Cloudcuckoo Lander looking ones):

Also if we do pick one of these, what would be the best pot hole? Don Quixote or as these were a Setting Update for the time they were drawn, would it be better to pothole to Creator.Pedro De Rojas?

Edited by GracieLizzy on Dec 29th 2023 at 6:27:41 PM

I like 1.2 the most

1.2.

1.2.

1.2's my favorite, but I prefer to include thin transparent gaps between panels for cleanliness:

I considered putting panel gutters in but I am so / so on transparent ones always as unlike being accosted by a massive white background in dark mode I actually think with just panel gutters it creates a nice "polaroid photograph" look, but I decided against it here mostly for speed of putting the different options together if I am honest. But I am not going to quibble over it and I do prefer there being some gaps to none so I could go with 1.2 or 5 if that's the panel choices people are leaning toward.

Edited by GracieLizzy on Dec 29th 2023 at 7:49:58 PM

1.2

I don't get how the panels in 1.2 connect?

Going with 1.1 here.

They're not connected, it's a montage.

5 > 1.2, both are good, but I like that 5 doesn't crop out part of his head in panel 2.

Ah none of them do that's a glitch with how captions are displayed in the forums. It doesn't do that on the main trope pages though.

Here's how they look without captions:

1.1:

1.2:

1.3:

But I am good with 5 as well.

I'm good with 5.

Changing my vote to 5 then

Votes bump, one in green.

He's so good at heroism that you'll need a second hero.

"He's no Lion when he thinks he's a hero, but his world view is kinda Bull, so most people think he's just a rat"

"The updated Don Quixote! Instead of tilting at windmills, he duels stone lions."

"Don Quijote would have been fine if he'd been born 2 centuries earlier— trust him to reincarnate 3 centuries later."

Edited by Earnest on Jan 8th 2024 at 4:25:40 AM

19.2

Edited by GracieLizzy on Jan 8th 2024 at 9:27:12 AM

19.2, but shouldn’t it be “3 centuries later”? Haven’t read the novel, but I assume it’s set in the then-present day of 1605, and this set of prints is from 1905.

My mistake, sounds good. I always get confused as to whether a century is the first two digits or the one before.

Edited by Earnest on Jan 8th 2024 at 4:23:44 AM

Works for me. It's added and tagged, closing.