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Scale make dynamics in a page

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To build a dynamic page you need contrast in the shapes between panels. Putting the same scale of shapes next to each other panel after panel leads to dull comics. Robbin’s make the Thief’s hand and gun almost exactly the same size in the first two panels. Then Batman jumps from a small figure to a full panel side head. The spatial relationship between Bats and the thief feels all screwed up in the cut between the two panels. So the large scale Batman head just feels kind of funky. Even just leaving all the blacks off the hand in the first panel would have made a difference in this shot reverse shot.