| 1 | [[quoteright:350:[[Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/NoRest_OddShaped_5279.JPG]]]] |
| 2 | |
| 3 | ->''"thog will always treasure thog's adventure with talky-man. it featured non-traditional panel layout."'' |
| 4 | -->-- '''Thog''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0788.html #788,]] referring to strip [[https://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0051.html #51]] |
| 5 | |
| 6 | A ComicBook[=/=]ComicStrip[=/=]{{Manga}}[=/=]{{Webcomic}} panel takes on an irregular shape as a form of PaintingTheMedium. (Many of the same effects can be used on SpeechBubbles, only from a default shape of round.) |
| 7 | |
| 8 | The simplest form is to depict something protruding from it in the FrameBreak -- but anything 2D is possible. There are a thousand ways to do this, and a million reasons. |
| 9 | * To represent the passage of time. |
| 10 | ** A four-panel newspaper strip might go like this... First panel: ''Alice says something weird.''; Second & Third panel combined into one double-sized panel: ''Alice and Bob stare at each other.''; Last panel: ''Bob calls Alice a weirdo.'' (In this case, the long panel represents [[BeatPanel a long pause]].) |
| 11 | ** A full page in a comic might depict someone jumping out a window. The page will be divided into narrow vertical panels depicting stages of the character's fall. (Here, the narrow panels indicate that the action is happening very quickly.) |
| 12 | ** Two events are happening simultaneously in different places. Two triangular panels joined along their hypotenuses depict the events. |
| 13 | ** "Pop-up" panels around a central illustration might depict different characters' reactions. |
| 14 | * To visually reinforce the action. |
| 15 | ** An explosion might be depicted in a jagged, pointy... umm... explosion-shaped panel. |
| 16 | ** If broken glass is involved, the panels might be shaped like jagged fragments of broken glass. |
| 17 | ** The path of a bullet might be drawn in a panel which spans the page left-to-right, but only occupies a small amount of vertical space. |
| 18 | ** A character picking a lock might be depicted in a key-shaped panel. |
| 19 | * To reinforce a character's thoughts, the theme of a conversation, or a theme of the work in general. |
| 20 | ** A character who is very angry might be drawn in... err... a jagged, explosion-shaped panel. |
| 21 | ** Two characters flirting might be drawn in a heart-shaped panel. |
| 22 | ** A situation involving recursion or infinite regress might be drawn as panels within panels, getting smaller to the point of invisibility. |
| 23 | * To break up visual monotony. This is at least ''part'' of the reason for probably 95% of oddly shaped panels. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | 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. |
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| 27 | ---- |
| 28 | !!Examples: |
| 29 | |
| 30 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 31 | |
| 32 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 33 | * Will Eisner's ''ComicBook/TheSpirit'' may be the UrExample of using unusual page layouts to visually reinforce story elements. This series invented many of the techniques mentioned above; indeed, much of the visual vocabulary of action-oriented comics can be traced to ''The Spirit''. Only Orson Welles' film ''Film/CitizenKane'' is comparable in its acknowledged influence over an entire medium. |
| 34 | * 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. |
| 35 | * Sam Kieth's ''ComicBook/TheMaxx'' did this all the time. |
| 36 | * Frequently used in the ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' {{Sunday strip}}s, particularly after Bill Watterson's first sabbatical. |
| 37 | ** In the Tenth Anniversary collection Watterson says he spent a lot of time trying to escape the "tyranny" of panels. |
| 38 | * ''ComicBook/ArchieComics'' did this routinely in the 1970s. |
| 39 | * The first couple of issues of ''ComicBook/ElfQuest'' drawn by Wendy Pini almost exclusively used [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ01/DisplayOQ01.html?page=11 rectangular panels]], but by issue #4 she was [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ04/DisplayOQ04.html?page=22 starting to experiment]] with [[http://www.elfquest.com/gallery/OnlineComics/OQ/OQ04/DisplayOQ04.html?page=18 more ambitious layouts]]. |
| 40 | * ''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''. |
| 41 | * 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 Panels, from jagged-edged starbursts to fight scenes shown entirely in panels shaped like lightning bolts. |
| 42 | ** In ''ComicBook/DetectiveComicsRebirth'', both Eddie Barrows and Alvaro Martínez use such panelling as an homage to Williams, since Batwoman is a starring character in the series. |
| 43 | * 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. |
| 44 | * In the GraphicNovel ''ComicBook/{{Joker}}'', a crash involving the Joker 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. |
| 45 | * Sounds as panels also appear in Creator/FrankMiller's work, for example when Marv shoots a corrupt priest in ''ComicBook/SinCity''. |
| 46 | * Creator/WinsorMcCay's ''ComicStrip/LittleNemo'' (1905) and George Herriman's ComicStrip/KrazyKat (1914), are possibly the trope makers. [=McCay=] created the elastic layout- in the later pages, almost no two panels are the same shape. In several story arcs, he has panel borders break or shatter after being pushed- or in one case eaten by the main cast. He was also one of the first to use the 'explosion' panel. Herriman's sunday layouts featured nested panels, inset panels on open backgrounds, slanted and sliding panels, and circular panels, among others. The layout varied wildly week to week- except for a brief color run in the 20's- and sometimes dispensed with panels entirely. |
| 47 | * ''ComicBook/TheSandman1989'' uses this often and to great effect, being an account of the Lord of Dreams and those connected to him. |
| 48 | * Regularly used in Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Promethea}}''. Most often this trope takes the form of having the panels evoke mystic symbols relevant to the subject of the chapter. It should be noted that ''Promethea'' is PlayingAgainstType for Moore; most of his works are famous for adhering to extremely rigid panel divisions (specifically, the 3X3 grid), even in an age where such things have become outdated. Even his biggest action sequences rarely, if ever, step outside the boundaries of their respective panels. |
| 49 | * 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. |
| 50 | * The ''ComicBook/New52'''s version of ''ComicBook/SwampThing'' makes the panel borders shaped like tree branches, most often when Alec Holland is using his powers. |
| 51 | * One issue of ''ComicBook/TheFoxAndTheCrow'' featured Crow dressed as a giant (with stilts); the reveal-panel was elongated to accommodate his increased height. |
| 52 | * In part one of ''ComicBook/{{Maus}}'', when Vladek sees a pair of Nazis up and shoot somebody in the street for the first time, he is depicted panicked looking, in a Star of David shaped panel, emphasizing his vulnerability, as a Jew, in how to respond. If he ran, he singles himself out as a target, if he stays, he could be caught up in a broader pogrom. |
| 53 | * ComicBook/LutherArkwright: Done very liberally from the beginning of ''The Adventures of Luther Arkwright'' in 1978. Some examples: |
| 54 | ** Overlapping panels |
| 55 | ** A single scene covering an entire page, with panels overlaid |
| 56 | ** Pages with no panel borders at all, all the "panels" bleed together and form a single whole |
| 57 | * In ''ComicBook/AstroCity'', Camilla at the carnival in "Pastoral" features panels like a ferris wheel -- with the borders being lights. |
| 58 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanBlackAndWhite'': "Funny Money" features a TimePassesMontage in which the panels keep getting smaller as time goes on: three panels are arranged in a grid where the fourth quadrant contains three panels arranged in a grid where the fourth quadrant contains ... and so on, vanishing into infinity. |
| 59 | * ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'' doesn't have a standard panel layout. |
| 60 | * The Golden Age ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'' comics would occasionally have a circular panel, generally with just the bust of a single character being focused on inside. |
| 61 | * ''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. |
| 62 | [[/folder]] |
| 63 | |
| 64 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 65 | * ''ComicStrip/TheAdventuresOfPrudencePrim'' was [[Creator/NellBrinkley Nell Brinkley's]] first big foray into serial, multi-panel comics, as opposed to the full-page illustrations and standalone editorial comics she had produced throughout the 1910's. She put her own spin on the format by drawing her comics as small vignettes arranged around a larger, more detailed "glamour shot" that dominated the composition. Those glamour shots allowed Brinkley to show off her famous sense of style, dolling protagonist Prudence up in stylish modern outfits that were as much of a draw for readers as the plot or the prose of writer Creator/CarolynWells. Separation between the vignettes and the glamour shot were organically plotted, taking their shape from the action and figures presented in each scene. The brim or an umbrella or a billowing scarf might mark the border of one panel, while a curving border decorated with flowers and ivy might set off a panel set in a garden. |
| 66 | [[/folder]] |
| 67 | |
| 68 | [[folder:Film -- Live-Action]] |
| 69 | * Ang Lee used these in [[Film/{{Hulk}} his 2003 adaptation of]] ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk''. |
| 70 | * Similarly, Kenneth Branagh made notably extensive use of {{Dutch Angle}}s in 2012's ''Film/{{Thor}}'' which was explained to be an attempt to make the scenes look like the varying panels of a comic book |
| 71 | [[/folder]] |
| 72 | |
| 73 | [[folder:Manga]] |
| 74 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' in particular uses this a lot, with fans of triangular frames to show individual reactions of members of a group. |
| 75 | * ''Manga/FruitsBasket'': The most common is a diagonal side. |
| 76 | * There's some panels in ''Manga/StrawberryMarshmallow'' that are convex quadrilaterals, some of which are right-angled trapezia. ...trapeziums? Nothing odder than that, though... |
| 77 | * ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' uses a lot of slanted panels. The end of Part 5 gets especially hectic. Though he makes pretty good use out of this. Instead of entire panels to show character reactions like he did before part 4, he later uses only small, circular panels to show character reactions, possibly a lampshading of how quick such reactions would be in real life, therefor it'd be just as quick to look at them. |
| 78 | * ''Manga/MajinTanteiNougamiNeuro'' plays with this quite a lot. |
| 79 | * ''Manga/OdeToKirihito'' contains spiral-shaped panels at points to convey multiple actions in quick succession by a single character. |
| 80 | * ''Manga/{{Adekan}}'' has a lot of round panels. |
| 81 | * ''Manga/ShiawaseTorimingu'': The series is a Yonkoma, but it frequently breaks the four-panel layout for artistic effect. The main character is an artist who embraces birdwatching to get material for her art, and the series emphasizes the majestic nature of birds with soaring, multi-panel illustrations. |
| 82 | * Shows up quite a bit in ''Manga/{{Shy}}'', usually in ways 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. |
| 83 | [[/folder]] |
| 84 | |
| 85 | [[folder:Newspaper Comics]] |
| 86 | * ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine does this a lot. |
| 87 | ** Normally the strip uses square panels -- but when it parodies/references ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'', it often switches to that strip's circle panels. |
| 88 | ** Because of the strip's propensity for BreakingTheFourthWall, characters often step outside the panels, damage the panels, etc. |
| 89 | [[/folder]] |
| 90 | |
| 91 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 92 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Partway into Chapter 12, the panels begin to [[http://www.sleeplessdomain.com/comic/chapter-12-page-19 crack around the edges]] whenever Tessa is on panel, reflecting her stressed mental state and growing worse as she continues to spiral. Some panels also have a rough brush stroke effect around the edges to reinforce this. It returns to normal when she visits the Memorial, reflecting how she wants to be alone. The effect shows up again periodically, such as during her tense conversation with Undine at the graveyard, and [[spoiler:her confrontation with the Purple One that finally pushes her to the DespairEventHorizon]]. |
| 93 | * ''Webcomic/CurseQuest'' When Requiem and Avalon find Walrus at the convention he is drunk and the panel surrounding him also bubbles up. |
| 94 | * ''Webcomic/{{Project 0}}'' does this all the time to the point that no two pages are really designed alike. Notable example on [[http://www.centralcitytower.com/2010/02/continuing-where-we-left-off-we-present.html page 6]] where Owen's fall is fragmented into vertical frames like the symbol for signal strength bars to show that his powers don't 'get reception' in the [[AbandonedArea Machine Graveyard.]] |
| 95 | * ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked'' has panels in the form of [[http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04-50.html feathers]]. |
| 96 | * ''Webcomic/{{EVIL|2016}}'': Panels are very frequently crooked, jagged, or warped in some way. |
| 97 | * ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' switches from its usual rectangular panels to slightly irregular, smooth-sided ones when depicting Gwynn's demon-possessed dream sequences. These are also surrounded by border text, usually the repetition of ArcWords, but occasionally the panel boundaries open slightly and the border text nearby changes to reveal a meta-clue. |
| 98 | * ''Webcomic/DresdenCodak'' frequently eschews rectangular layouts for circles or cuts the page into triangular shapes. |
| 99 | * ''Webcomic/CaseyAndAndy'' did this once when they were literally breaking their own reality. |
| 100 | * ''Tally Road'' constantly does it, either with radical and strange panel shapes or by simply using the angle of vertical panel borders to imply the state of mind of the characters. More askew angles are associated with more unstable feelings. At one point, passing time is represented by the panel borders 'sweeping' to increasing angles like the hands of a clock. |
| 101 | * ''[=PolkOut=]'' has used some funky panels before. |
| 102 | * ''Webcomic/{{HERO}}'' regularly uses oddly shaped or oddly placed panels for narrative effect. |
| 103 | * ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' uses irregular polygon shaped panels whenever the action includes a fight sequence (usually with laser-swords). |
| 104 | * ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has it well established that rounded corners are fantasy, dream, or narrative. The artist also likes to let force effect the panels, one particularly powerful punch actually made the whole panel order bow to the left. |
| 105 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''. Examples [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090821 here]], [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20030704 here]], and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20100830 here]]. |
| 106 | ** Not just oddly shaped panels. Phil Foglio's many tools include [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050513 overlays in sequence]] [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050617 or to indicate relationships]] ([[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20050610 or here]] and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20070606 here]]) and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071126 perspective that would be done with sequential shots in cinema]]. [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20071003 Another use, to similar effect.]] He also [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090720 carries 'effects' noises]] and [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20090902 speech bubbles]] across panels. |
| 107 | * ''Webcomic/MurryPurryFreshAndFurry'' uses free-form panels with wavy borders. |
| 108 | * The panels of ''Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName'' are very frequently irregularly-shaped (check out the center bottom panel [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=151 here]]) or overlapping. It fits with the high-energy feel of the comic and its manic protagonist. |
| 109 | ** An even more dramatic example comes when [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=476 Hanna counts to three]]: [[http://hanna.aftertorque.com/?p=482 1, 2, 3]]. |
| 110 | * ''Webcomic/TheLifeOfNobTMouse'' often has the top of a character's head popping out of a skewed ellipse during conversation pieces. |
| 111 | * Every panel in ''Webcomic/CwynhildsLoom'' has rounded corners. |
| 112 | * ''Webcomic/AllOverTheHouse'' also often has the top of a talking character's head popping out of an elliptical frame. |
| 113 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=30 Here]], and a trapezoidal one [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=111 here]]. The comic very often skews the panel borders during [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=220 action]] [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=285 scenes]]. [[SpiritWorld Etheric]] views usually have non-typical panel appearance, such as [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=520 all melded together]] with objects (usually Annie's hair) serving as visual separators, or [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=988 one panel as a background and others on top of it]]. |
| 114 | * In ''Webcomic/PennyAndAggie'', when Brandi knocks out Xena, the panel borders [[http://www.pennyandaggie.com/index.php?p=950 buckle]] as if from the force of the blow. |
| 115 | * ''Webcomic/ALessonIsLearnedButTheDamageIsIrreversible'' is famous for doing this effectively in a great many of their comics to reinforce events or theme, such as [[http://alessonislearned.com/index.php?comic=18 here]]. |
| 116 | * Stuff protrudes from panels in ''Webcomic/TheWayOfTheMetagamer'' a lot, but [[http://wayofthemetagamer.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/32150 this comic]] is a particularly notable example. |
| 117 | * ''[[http://www.rockpapercynic.com/littleworlds/ Little Worlds]]'' regularly uses blurred and oddly shaped panels in its pages. |
| 118 | * ''Webcomic/PumpkinFlower'' normally has boxes in lines of three, but panels get funky when characters are hallucinating [[http://pumpkinflower.comicgenesis.com/d/20081003.html]] [[http://pumpkinflower.comicgenesis.com/d/20100316.html]] |
| 119 | * ''Webcomic/FarOutThere'' [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027271/page-25-one-big-happy-family lives]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027706/page-59-well-she-is-a-girl by]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1027835/page-76-warning-sudden-plot-shifts-may-result-in-neck-injury this]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1028455/page-91-one-mans-trash-is-another-mans-misidentified-trash/ trope,]] [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1068896/page-174-now-the-word-thinking-sounds-funny-to-me seriously.]] The most jarring thing it can do now is a [[http://faroutthere.smackjeeves.com/comics/1069365/page-188-alan-moore-called-he-wants-his-page-back normal layout.]] |
| 120 | * ''Webcomic/KeychainOfCreation'' uses angled panel gutters for action scenes. |
| 121 | * ''Webcomic/TheDreamlandChronicles'', [[http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-08/page-513/ mostly overlapping]]. |
| 122 | * ''Webcomic/BobAndGeorge'', [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/000816c rarely]]. |
| 123 | ** [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/040304c overlapping here]] |
| 124 | ** [[http://www.bobandgeorge.com/archives/041117c Sliced into triagles]] to show simultaneity |
| 125 | * ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'': [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/333 trapezoids]] |
| 126 | ** Non-rectangular panels are rare, but more recently, floaty-freeform-layout panels superimposed on a partial background have become the norm. Tilted panels show up occasionally in action scenes, such as the "Kyaaa!" panel [[http://megatokyo.com/strip/1168 here.]] |
| 127 | * ''Webcomic/LastRes0rt'' [[http://www.lastres0rt.com/2009/03/my-eventual-publisher-is-going-to-hate-me-for-this/ has one page where one of the characters goes out of the panel(possibly onto the next page)]] |
| 128 | * ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/suits-me/ like here]] |
| 129 | * ''Webcomic/{{Pibgorn}}'' [[http://www.gocomics.com/pibgorn/2002/03/16/ triangles]] |
| 130 | * ''Webcomic/EerieCuties'' [[http://www.eeriecuties.com/d/20090629.html pentagon]] |
| 131 | * ''Webcomic/QuentynQuinnSpaceRanger'': [[http://www.rhjunior.com/quentyn-quinn-space-ranger-0074/ Three panels merged into one -- one on top, two below, to produce an L shape]] |
| 132 | * ''Webcomic/EvilDiva'': [[http://www.evildivacomics.com/?p=296 overlapping here]] and [[http://www.evildivacomics.com/?p=330 here]] |
| 133 | * ''Webcomic/WoodenRose'' [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter3/68.html not lined up straight]] or [[http://www.woodenrosecomic.com/comic/chapter3/76.html with slanted edges]] |
| 134 | * ''Webcomic/FeyWinds'' [[http://www.feywinds.com/comic/page.php?id=78 Slanted and overlapping]] |
| 135 | * ''Webcomic/ThePhoenixRequiem'' Slants [[http://requiem.seraph-inn.com/viewcomic.php?page=34 here]] and [[http://requiem.seraph-inn.com/viewcomic.php?page=36 here]]. |
| 136 | ** Actually, odd shaped panels are the norm in this comic rather than an exception. |
| 137 | * ''Webcomic/{{Strays}}'' [[http://www.straysonline.com/comic/134.htm slanted sides and superimposed]] |
| 138 | * ''Webcomic/FamiliarGround'' [[http://www.familiar-ground.com/2009/03/13/short-term-memory/ An inset square]] |
| 139 | * ''Webcomic/DorkTower'' [[http://www.dorktower.com/2001/01/28/comics-archive-65/ Cut-out corner]] |
| 140 | ** [[http://www.dorktower.com/2002/01/26/comics-archive-234/ And arched sky]] |
| 141 | * ''Webcomic/{{Tamuran}}'' [[http://www.tamurancomic.com/?p=458 slanting sides]] |
| 142 | ** [[http://www.tamurancomic.com/?p=561 Fuzzy-edged]] |
| 143 | * ''Webcomic/{{Footloose}}'' [[http://www.footloosecomic.com/footloose/pages.php?page=48 Slanting sides]] |
| 144 | * ''Webcomic/ImpureBlood'' [[http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Chapter001/ib007.html superimpose a long, short panel over the middle division]] |
| 145 | * ''Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}} Prelude'' |
| 146 | ** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=68 Warped squares, with nicks]] |
| 147 | ** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=128 Warped sides, and ovals, and without borders.]] |
| 148 | ** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=130 Larger and smaller for conversation across a door, to indicate inside and outside.]] |
| 149 | ** [[http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/Prelude.php?pg=131 Little scenes overlapping the large one]] |
| 150 | * ''Webcomic/{{Roza}}'' |
| 151 | ** [[http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/?date=2007-05-19 One panel slips down to overlap]] |
| 152 | ** [[http://www.junglestudio.com/roza/index.php?date=2008-06-16 slanted sides]] |
| 153 | * ''Webcomic/ThistilMistilKistil'' [[http://tmkcomic.depleti.com/comic/ch03-pg15/ During a fight, slanted sides]] |
| 154 | * Webcomic/{{Derelict}} as wide as the strip, and wavey, to indicate that she slept a long time. |
| 155 | * In ''Webcomic/NipAndTuck'', [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00570.html one without a border, to indicate]] it's not part of the {{Flashback}}. |
| 156 | ** [[http://www.rhjunior.com/NT/00584.html Again, with the border as a "thought" shape]] |
| 157 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Endstone}}'', [[http://endstone.net/2009/12/14/issue-3-webpage-1/ slantwise borders during a fight.]] |
| 158 | * In ''Webcomic/NextTownOver'', [[http://squidbunnies.com/nto/?p=325 framing faces in panels like lockets.]] |
| 159 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Doodze}}'', [[http://seguemediagroup.com/doodze/?p=1012 slanted across the line of their fall]] |
| 160 | * In ''Webcomic/AmericanBarbarian'', [[http://www.ambarb.com/?p=20 a triangle to introduce the second plot line.]] |
| 161 | * In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfShanShan'', [[http://shanshan.upperrealms.com/view.php?pageid=016&chapterid=1 superimposed and trapezoidal.]] |
| 162 | * In ''Webcomic/BlueYonder'', [[http://www.blueyondercomic.net/comics/1355750/blue-yonder-chapter-1-page-38/ superimposed]]. |
| 163 | * ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'' |
| 164 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0051.html This]] 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.]] |
| 165 | ** [[http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0887.html A swirl of panels is used to indicate what a person with]] MindControlEyes is thinking. |
| 166 | ** The first several comics have crooked divider lines than run past each other, as though they were sloppily drawn in freehand. These were abandoned fairly early, and changed to a traditional form in the print version with an author's note that he has no idea what he was thinking when he used them. |
| 167 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Erstwhile}}'', |
| 168 | ** [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/maidmaleen-11/#.T2928tm6SuI Maid Maleen's inability to find work is showing in a sequence of round panels.]] |
| 169 | ** [[http://www.erstwhiletales.com/ Catching the villains in "Brother And Sister" is shown in panels with jagged edges.]] |
| 170 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Far from Home|MightyMartianStudios}}'', Eyak's reaction to the pilotting is shown in a hexagon on top of two panels showing the ship dodging asteroids. |
| 171 | * In ''Webcomic/EarsForElves'', a series of short, wide rectangular panels indicate zooming in/panning down [[http://www.earsforelves.com/archives/405 here]]. |
| 172 | * In ''[[Webcomic/DominicDeegan Dominic Deegan: Oracle For Hire]]'', planar or psychic magic is shown via unusual panels. If an extraplanar entity is spying on the cast, he will show up outside the panel. When Dominic went to the elemental plane of destruction, his progress was shown as a panel getting periodically blasted and damaged. Most recently, when the King held the demiplane with Nimmel on it hostage, he elbowed the panel, which then [[http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2012-06-08 chipped away at the demiplane]]. In that same battle, the fight taking place on two planes is shown by the King [[http://dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2012-06-12 reaching from one panel to the other]]. |
| 173 | * In ''Webcomic/MonsieurCharlatan'', [[http://monsieur-charlatan.com/archive/page-6/ objects within the panel serve as the edges -- whatever their shape is.]] |
| 174 | * ''Webcomic/{{Oglaf}}'' has a minor example: the final page of a story usually has a small triangular piece cut out of the bottom-right corner. |
| 175 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Parallels}}'', [[http://www.mightymartianstudios.com/2012/11/06/pro-006-final-resting-place/ the panels are superimposed, shifting right and left, until the final landing.]] |
| 176 | * In ''Webcomic/TheSpecialists'', [[http://thespecialistscomic.com/page-126/ overlapping squares show enlarged pieces of the room.]] |
| 177 | * In ''Webcomic/DragonMango'' [[http://dragon-mango.com/comic/chapter05/dm05-42.htm a black and red-outlined speech bubble, shaped like a smoke cloud.]] |
| 178 | * ''Webcomic/AvasDemon'' is usually one square panel, but [[http://www.avasdemon.com/pages.php?page=0052 one is split, slantwise, to show two different characters at once.]] |
| 179 | ** When Ava seems to split, [[http://www.avasdemon.com/1130.php so to does the panel]], [[http://www.avasdemon.com/1131.php "superimposed" on each other]], [[http://www.avasdemon.com/1132.php with others slanting]], [[http://www.avasdemon.com/1133.php or a frame break]], [[http://www.avasdemon.com/1135.php finally subsiding to a panel with a bulging side as she pulls together.]] |
| 180 | * In ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'', [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2000/01/28 a telephone conversation shown in diagonally sliced -- with a jaggy in the middle -- panels.]] |
| 181 | * ''Webcomic/CucumberQuest'''s panels are usually rectangular, occasionally angled if there's a ReactionShot 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]]. |
| 182 | * ''Webcomic/NobodyScores'' does frame breaks, borderless panels with panels over them and a panel within a panel, coincident in space, but fractionally earlier in time. All in the [[http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=350 same strip]]. Other effects used include [[http://nobodyscores.loosenutstudio.com/index.php?id=398 bubbly borders]] for a character flashback. |
| 183 | * In ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'', [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-37/ losing]] and [[http://rustyandco.com/comic/level-8-38/ regaining]] consciousness has the panel replaced by a few thin rectangles, not vertical, and losing -- or regaining -- size. |
| 184 | * In ''Webcomic/StandStillStaySilent'', dreamworld panels are drawn with curvy lines, while the real-world ones have straight lines. |
| 185 | * ''Webcomic/RiversideExtras'': Frequently. [[http://www.riversidecomics.co/comics/1929736/behind-the-eight-page-28/ Here]] is just one of many, many examples. |
| 186 | * 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 [[VisualPun literally inside a border]]. |
| 187 | * Plenty of these in ''Webcomic/CarawayTalesOfLucidity''. |
| 188 | * ''Webcomic/BeyondTheEnd' has a few, but most notably is [[https://beyondtheend.gay/index.html?pg=1525#showComic Ayuy's]] [[https://beyondtheend.gay/index.html?pg=1526#showComic introduction]]. |
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