Bad Image: Writer On Board

1. ) Panel 1 is practically unreadable
2. ) Even ONCE you read it, this makes no sense unless you're familiar with Marvel's recent work.

Old image removed, here it is:

Right-click, view image. It is huge.

...and terrible for reason 2.

Agreed.

hah, that look on Cap'Am's face is just plain funny. There's gotta be somethin better.

How about an Animal Man example:

• Animal Man meets his writer, Grant Morrison◊
• Cover image of same
• Grant Morrison and Animal Man ''discussing'' Writer On Board issues◊

I think the latter is best. I'm thinking panels 2 and 3 arranged vertically?

Panels 2 and 3 of the last one are great. In fact, just panel 2 alone would work.

How's this?

Caption maybe "Animal Man discusses this trope with his writer, Grant Morrison."

Looks perfect to me.

I like it.

The image is perfect and the caption is fine as well.

Too big.

Besides, it's not really a picture of the trope but two people talking about it. What we need is a picture that epitomizes this in distilled form.

edited 14th Nov '10 9:44:49 AM by CTrombley

How about◊?

A 404?

It's a Chick Tract panel calling people (probably those who subscribe to the theory of evolution) Nazis.

Personally, I'd much prefer the Animal Man panels, on account of being nicely self-ironic and not leaving a bad taste in my mouth.

I don't think the Chick Tract example really works. For one thing, Chick Tracts are just that - tracts. It's like saying, oh, the shows hosted by Rush Limbaugh or Rachel Maddow suffer from "obvious authorial intrusion." That's the whole point of the exercise.

I'd say just the top panel of Animal Man.

I like the Animal Man one.

Why just the first panel, though? It seems to me the second one (with Grant Morrison criticizing his own "soapboxing") is the one that really sells it.

The Animal man isn't really clear to people who don't know the work.

I don't know the work (well, I've heard the title, but that's it), and I think the panels are completely self-explanatory.

^^^ Because it's the first panel that explains it. The second panel judges it and declares "...and that's terrible!" The trope is about doing it, not whether it's good or bad.

edited 17th Nov '10 7:10:18 AM by Madrugada

You have a point. I think the first panel alone works. The full thing tells more of a story, but we're about giving examples, not telling stories for page images.

OK, I went ahead and added the image.