PaulEberhardt at 2:26PM, June 19, 2022

I love sequences like this for what they do in terms of comic timing. In this example wolfy here is pausing for a moment to let its cerebral cogwheels click into place - anyone who spends a lot of time observing animals will have seen a moment just like that - and that just wouldn't come across in "real time". Besides, this kind of thing is too much fun to draw and watch to miss out on it. I've done this both with the tiger and the squirrel in my comic multiple times, even if I never use bordered panels there. Since my critters talk through their body language only, it's practically a necessity.

Ironscarf at 6:21AM, June 19, 2022

This great little sequence has a very animated feel to it, as well as looking very pretty! There's even a sense of the wolf's increasing confusion from one panel to the next, helped no end by the third ear in the last one - nice touch!

Amelius at 7:49PM, June 18, 2022

Oh! I was so surprised to see my comic title my heart skipped a beat, haha! I'm really enjoying this article series, and I'm delighted that I could be an example for something in here. I honestly was never expecting that haha! One of the other times I did a 4-beat sequence with character Kavonn putting his hat on and giving it a twist back in place, finishing with a smirk and the audience went NUTS for it (I even got an animated fan art of it!) In this one I wanted to show the wolf losing the signal he was following, crackling to static before being plunged into a sensory darkness, and I coulda done that with 2 panels maybe but it just wouldn't have the same impact as slowing it down a bit while the wolf was in a hurry to get somewhere.

Andreas_Helixfinger at 11:08PM, June 17, 2022

I think what is happening on panel 3 to 6 on Spark in the Deep: page 4 of Molly Lusc could be an example of a four-beat sequence, maybe:P