>>88276482>And that picture is bullshit by the way. You keep saying you have to jerk your eyes in the batman page but all you did was draw a bunch straight lines instead of one like you did with the The lines represent individual eye motions. That is, in the right page you can see the eye doesn't really ever stop. It flows smoothly all the way through. On the other hand, try reading that batman page in one take, without your eyes ever stopping.
While there's more to proper paneling than JUST flow, and sometimes you want your art to be impactful and jarring, the fact that your eyes pull some tokyo drift just to go from side to side is pretty ridiculous.
For example, the speech bubble on panel 3. Why is it where it is. There's no reason for it to be there. Your eyes go naturally from Jason to jason and then towards batman but then takes this crazy sharp turn at the last moment. Why? Why not either remove the second Jason, and have the cape take up the whole page, so that the text bubble can move to the left and more organically meld with both the above panel, and the one below?
I'm not commenting on the quality, IMO the manga on the Right looks like garbage, but all other elements aside, the fact is, in the right manga the flow is more consistent and comprises of a railroaded passageway of speech bubbles. The left does not, and therefore lacks the same level of flow. Again, try reading the left page without jerking your eyes. it goes well till you hit panel 3. Note how even in the Manga's U-turn sections, there's a nice environmental element like the arm or the wallet to further telegraph the path of the eye.
>>88276687>Its not. Certainly no worse than manga.Then why has every comic book since the 90s been borrowing paneling tricks from manga? Don't be THIS fucking blind.
