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2[[caption-width-right:167: [-''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}: Conqueror Worm'', Chapter 2, panel 2. This is the entire panel.-] ]]
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4A panel in a ComicBook, {{Manga}}, or {{Webcomic}} featuring just scenery. No characters, no dialogue from off-scene characters, and minimal (if any) narration.
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6Silent Scenery Panels can serve several purposes. Most often, one is used at the beginning of a scene, as the SequentialArt equivalent of an EstablishingShot or AspectMontage. Used in the middle of a scene, they can imply movement or the passage of time, without the artist having to laboriously redraw characters. They can also serve as pacing, slowing down a story that would otherwise seem frantic.
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8When the Silent Scenery Panel is also a SplashPanel, the result is almost invariably SceneryPorn.
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10Compare BeatPanel.
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17* ''ComicBook/{{Hellboy}}'' has a lot of close-up shots of whatever artwork or statuary appears in the scene. (And make no mistake, wherever the characters go, there is ''always'' artwork or statuary.) On occasion the panel contains statuary or some creature saying Hellboy's "real" name (Anung Un Rama), usually when he's explaining that he doesn't ''want'' to be TheAntichrist. Mignola seems to eschew large {{Splash Panel}}s in favor of close-ups of thematically important details.
18* Marvel Comics had a month when all their comics were to be silent, so all scenery panels were this way by necessity. One wonders how much money Marvel saved by not having to pay any letterers that month.
19* This was done extensively in the first storyline in ''ComicBook/{{Concrete}}''. It has a page filled with tiny panels showing how laborious it is to swim across the Atlantic Ocean.
20* A lot of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' stories end with a panel of Gotham's skyline.
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24* ''Manga/UmiNoMisaki'' might hold the record for the most panels without any characters or action in them. The manga is full of panels showing of the beautiful island that are used by the author to set the mood.
25* Creator/TsutomuNihei uses these a lot.
26* Ashinano Hitoshi loves these things. At least one chapter of ''Manga/YokohamaKaidashiKikou'' contains no dialogue at all, and several others come quite close.
27* Creator/InioAsano frequently uses these and they are generally extremely detailed; he uses scanned photos he has taken and shots from Unreal Engine renderings which are then touched up by hand to create these.
28* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' uses these quite often to establish the scenery. Sometimes they only include a tiny fragment of the sky or a close-up shot of some leaves in a tree. They are usually drawn with near-photographic realism.
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32* Many establishing shots from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod''.
33* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' initially used a set of progressively smaller panels to indicate [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=90 the passage of time.]] As the comic progressed, this was condensed to the point that [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=289 a single scenery panel at the end of a page]] invariably signals a scene transition.
34* ''Webcomic/NatureOfNaturesArt'' contains '''so much''' SceneryPorn, almost all of it silent.
35* ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'' does this often when a new scene is introduced.
36* ''Webcomic/{{Riceboy}}'' and ''Webcomic/OrderOfTales'' contain tons of scenery porn. Evan Dahm's newest work ''Webcomic/{{Vattu}}'' is notable for having one word of dialogue in its first 11 pages. The word? Quiet.
37* ''Xawu'' did this at the start of the second chapter. [[http://xawu.thecomicseries.com/comics/25 It's a Silent Scenery Comic.]]
38* ''Webcomic/DrugsAndKisses'' strips regularly start with one of these, especially when set outside the main characters' apartment.
39* Occurs so often on ''Webcomic/{{Misfile}}'' that they almost outnumber the panels ''with'' characters in them.
40* ''Webcomic/LeifAndThorn'': [[http://leifandthorn.com/comic/leaves-that-are-green-121/ First strip of the "Leaves That Are Green" storyline,]] and again in [[http://leifandthorn.com/comic/leaves-that-are-green-421/ a view of Leif's hospital room,]] doubling as a bittersweet IdenticalPanelGag.
41* ''Webcomic/EllieOnPlanetX'': Sometimes entire strips are devoted to [[http://ellieonplanetx.com/comic/curiouser-and-curiouser/ showcasing the pretty scenery.]]
42* ''Webcomic/TheLessThanEpicAdventuresOfTJAndAmal'': The entirely of [[http://tjandamal.com/comic/?id=123 chapter 14]] is done without dialog.
43* ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'' These are used quite often to establish the location at the beginning of a particular scene. Some instances take up nearly [[SplashPanel the entire page]]:
44** The [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-1-page-1 very first page]] is an establishing shot of the City, interrupted only by [[CannedOrdersOverLoudspeaker a loudspeaker delivering an automated message]].
45** [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-12-page-24 Chapter 12 - Page 24]] is entirely silent, but it makes use of [[OddShapedPanel panels that are cracking around the edges]] to show Tessa's worsening mental state without the need for words.
46** [[https://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-19-page-26 Chapter 19 - Page 22]] is a silent establishing shot of Anemone's BigFancyHouse, panning out as Tessa observes it from a nearby rooftop.
47* ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'' uses this for a rather large percentage of panels, and many full pages as well.
48* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', silent scenery panels are occasionally used to indicate characters travelling or entering a new area. Many of these are [[SplashPanel splash panels which cover their entire two-page spreads]], and often double as SceneryPorn. Some examples: [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-1-pages-46-47/ (1)]] [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-3-pages-38-39/ (2)]] [[https://yokokasquest.com/comic/chapter-4-pages-8-9/ (3)]].
49* Often used in ''Webcomic/CrimsonKnights'' in order to establish the scenery.
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