History Main / OddShapedPanel

* ''Webcomic/{{EVIL}}'': Panels are very frequently crooked, jagged, or warped in some way.

-->-- '''Thog''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html #788]], referring to strip [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0051.html #51]]

* ComicBook/TheDeathOfSuperman comics, in 1992, has a very interesting example. It starts by the wake of Doomsday, who then starts attacking everything in sight, until {{Superman}} arrives. Then Doomsday focus on him only, and they start fighting, without dialogue (since Doomsday can't talk at all and [[ImplacableMan won't stop its attacks]]), each page having 8 panels. The next issue was more pure fight, with each page having 7 panels. Then 6, then 5, and so on. The last issue, then, is composed only of single-panel pages of Supes and Dooms beating the crap out of each other, and in the last one ''both of them die''.

* [[Webcomic/DresdenCodak Aaron Diaz]] doesn't seem to like even rectangular layouts. He frequently uses circles or cuts the page into triangular shapes.

-->-- '''Thog''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html #788]]

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* Sounds as panels also appear in Frank Miller's work, for example when Marv shoots a corrupt preist in ComicBook/SinCity.

* [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0051.html This]] ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' strip organizes panels along a twisty tunnel, with the bumpy sides being two sides of the panel. [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html Thog lampshades this in a much later strip.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' story "Time Waits For No Mandy" has Mandy tricking Father Time into going on vacation permanently so time will stand still and pre-empt her future birthdays. A spiral panel shows instances of how the stoppage of time has affected their circumstances, not needlessly for the good.

* Franchise/ArchieComics did this routinely in the 1970s.

* In ''Webcomic/YokokasQuest'', every two-page spread features at least one borderless panel[[note]]This is a lot more apparent in book form than when viewing only one page at a time online[[/note]]. The exception to this is when Yokoka is [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-page-66/ passing through Betel's barrier]], to represent that she is literally inside a border.

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* ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'''s panels are usually rectangular, occasionally angled if there's a ReactionCut or something dynamic. However, certain characters (like Glitchmaster and the Nightmare Knight) can warp or break the panel edges. [[http://cucumber.gigidigi.com/cq/page-571/ Like this]].

* One issue of Creator/JohnByrne's run on ''ComicBook/AlphaFlight'' featured Snowbird facing one of the Great Beasts, Komolaq, described as "the living embodiment of winter". The battle featured a number of unusual frame shapes and placements, made all the more noticeable in that the frames were all blank(the idea was to depict the battle taking place within a severe blizzard, with nothing but flying snow visible). Only the frame shapes and locations, along with dialogue, provided any clues to the action. A CrowningMomentOfAwesome for John Byrne, in that he made the fight work on the page.

* Ang Lee used these in [[Film/{{Hulk}} his 2003 adaptation of]] ''[[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk]]''.

* Ang Lee used these in his 2003 adaptation of ''[[TheHulk The Incredible Hulk]]''.

* In the GraphicNovel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'', a crash involving SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and the protagonist shows the characters' reactions to the impact drawn inside of the word "CRASH" as if the word was a panel. It also uses the "Broken Glass" effect mentioned above, as if the reader is watching the characters' reaction through the breaking windshield of the car.

* When he draws ''Creator/DetectiveComics'', JH Williams III divides the ComicBook/{{Batwoman}} segments from the ones focusing on [[SecretIdentity Kate Kane]] by giving Kate standard panel layouts while Batwoman's scenes feature all manner of {{Odd Shaped Panel}}s, from jagged-edged starbursts to fight scenes shown entirely in panels shaped like lightning bolts.

* ArchieComics did this routinely in the 1970s.