How broadly is "unacceptable" defined? (Score 1)

I happen to run a fairly popular online comic site and use AdSense ads to supplement some of our existing advertising. What I want to know is just how broad their definition of "unacceptable implementations" is. The common practice that I and many other online cartoonists tend to use is to place images above or near the ads to actually draw attention to them, hoping our readers will click on them. The images tend to be eye-catching and related directly to the comic; i.e., the images on my site are of one my main characters and are in no way influenced by the content of the ads themselves.

I personally don't think any of my readers will automatically assume a "relationship" between my character and the products and sites being displayed by the ads. (Unless Google is feeding me ads for Asian mail-order brides, in which I have bigger problems to worry about.) So I'm wondering how strict they're going to be in policing this new policy. I have no intention on changing my site as my interpretation of their blog post states that only misleading images are in violation, and in my opinion there's nothing misleading about the images I'm using. But if they're intending to take an all-or-nothing, slash-and-burn approach, there are a lot of us the webcomic community who are in for a world of hurt. I know of a number of cartoonists who have been burned by Google before for "violating" their terms in questionable contexts.