Zombie Ranch 257 – On The Fence

How you set up your panels can be very important. Having the long panel on the right can sometimes be tricky, because you can never guarantee that the reader will read in the direction you want to. So your options are either to have a word bubble overlap into the first panel – this makes the audience feel the panel the word bubble is connected to is panel #2 – or make it so it doesn’t matter what panel they move to first because all the action is happening at once.

This is an example to where it doesn’t really matter where the reader moves to after the first panel. The story we want to tell still works if you go to the bottom panel or go to the long panel on the right.