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==Description==
[[File:Roy Lichtenstein.jpg|thumb|upright|Lichtenstein in 1967]]
Measuring {{convert|68|x|80|in|cm|1}}, ''Torpedo...Los!'' is an oil on canvas painting.<ref name=TLLF/> By enlarging the face of the captain relative to the entire field, Lichtenstein makes him more prominent than in the source.<ref name=RLDW/> He retained the source's "clumsiness" in how the secondary figure is presented and replaced the dialogue with a much shorter "cryptic command".<ref name=RLDW/> The original source had dialog related to the repeated torpedoing of the same ship, but Lichtenstein cut the entire speech balloon down to two words. He moved the captain's scar from his nose to his cheek and he made the captain appear more aggressive by depicting him with his mouth wide open, also opting to leave the eye which was not looking through the periscope open. He also made the ship appear to be more technologically sophisticated with a variety of changes.<ref name=PAES>{{cite book|title=Pop Art|author=Shanes, Eric|isbn=978-1-84484-619-1|page=97|date=2009|publisher=Parkstone Press International|chapter=The Plates}}</ref> The scar was actually most readily apparent in panels other than the source from the same story.<ref>{{harvnb|Lobel|2009|page=117|loc="Technology Envisioned: Lichtenstein's Monocularity"}}</ref>
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