Joyce and Walky!

Weird personal boundary and harassment issues set aside, this strip reminds me of my evolving panel composition pet peeves.  See the first panel, with all the space at the bottom, and then the art shifting down in the second panel to fit dialog in at the top?  These days, I’d move that first panel art down, keeping the blank area placement consistent.  It kind of annoys me when art shifts around from panel to panel to accommodate dialog.  I mean, it’s okay if the “camera angle” changes, but if it’s just a shot like Sal there at the table being repeated, I think she should be placed the same in each panel that camera angle appears.  Composition in otherwise unchanging panels being shifted up and down to fit word balloons is like fingernails on a chalkboard.