"... What does this comic gain from the strange layout of otherwise regular squares? ..." Scott McCloud wrote a whole book explaining why, "Reinventing Comics:

"... What does this comic gain from the strange layout of otherwise regular squares? ..." Scott McCloud wrote a whole book explaining why, "Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form" ~ http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Comics-Imagination-Technology-Revolutionizing/dp/0060953500 http://www.amazon.com/Reinventing-Comics-Imagination-Technol... a quick summary: he's trying to redefine & elevate comics from being mere cartoon strips in newspapers or the plastic covered, pulp superhero "comix" you find in dingy comic book stores to a higher art-form through new technology & imagination ~ http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html http://www.scottmccloud.com/2-print/2-rc/index.html