No, the idea behind these thumbs is to give an idea of what you will be seeing when you click on it. In these cases it adds an artistic element of suspense. The main purpose of a thumb is to eliminate the "need" to download the full image. It is you that determines whether or not the thumb represents something you may want to look at. I'm a viewer, I prefer a partial thumb. If I saw the whole pic, I wouldn't need to DL the image. I guess I'm the only one then, so what?

Don't blame the artist for the speed...blame your connection. For 1.5X the price of slug line, you can surf 10X the speed! I think it is justifiable. Skimp where you wish, but my connection was the first thing I upgraded. Dial-ups and AOL are a thing of the past. It was all worth it when I got to tell AOL to "GO SUCK A FART"