History Main / OddShapedPanel

* Very requently shows up in ''Manga/{{Shy}}'', usually in thematically relevant to when they're used. For instance, when Shy and her allies shatter a dome of darkness that had surrounded part of Tokyo, the panels are drawn as a sun emanating rays of light.

Depending on how they are juxtaposed, can make following the sequence difficult, since there may not be a left-to-right (or right-to-left in manga), top-to-bottom order. Sometimes panels are even "superimposed" as if they were on top of each other; this is commonest in the SubTrope SpeechbubblesInterruption, where it is used to show talking over each other.

* Jack Cole, who assisted Eisner on the Spirit for a while, would employ odd panels in his own comics, for example in the second ComicBook/PlasticMan story in this [[http://colescomics.blogspot.com/2009/10/jack-coles-strange-last-plastic-man.html post]] all the parts of the story set in dreamland had wavy panel borders with black gutters in between them.

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

* 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''.

* Frank Quitely often experiments with odd panels, for example he will occasionally make the panel the literal fourth wall of a room. In ''ComicBook/{{We3}}'' he gets really inventive with sequences using a large panel with a series of tiny panels showing all the small details of the scene layered on top of the larger panel, or in one sequence he tilts a series of panels sideways as a character is moving through them, and its awesome looking.
* In the GraphicNovel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'', a crash involving ComicBook/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.
* Sounds as panels also appear in Frank Miller's work, for example when Marv shoots a corrupt priest in ''ComicBook/SinCity''.

* ComicBook/TheSandman uses this often and to great effect, being an account of the Lord of Dreams and those connected to him.

* The ComicBook/{{New 52}}'s version of ComicBook/SwampThing makes the panel borders shaped like tree branches, most often when Alec Holland is using his powers.

* Similarly, Kenneth Branagh made notably extensive use of DutchAngles in 2012's ''Movie/Thor'' which was explained to be an attempt to make the scenes look like the varying panels of a comic book

* When he draws ''ComicBook/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.

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* The ComicBook/{{New 52}}'s version of Comicbook/SwampThing makes the panel borders shaped like tree branches, most often when Alec Holland is using his powers.

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