We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!
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Exposition's really difficult in comic format. People don't really want to read a full page of text when they're reading comics, so you got to find some ways to at least give it some visual flair...
Yeah, this is an elegant solution :)
Tell that to Order of the Stick
OotS has SO much text per strip, I could really do a lot with that kind of real estate.
Dinosaur comics is the master of text to lack of visuals. Subnormality us another text heavy strip that I used to read.