Catseye Agency 1996 Page 4

This page is the worst of the bunch. Not because of the artwork, which aside from the usual proportion issues is fine. But the layout is terrible. The position of the panels, combined with the position of the feline character in the last panel, makes it impossible to create the proper flow. The word balloon in the center wrecks the flow, but the layout leaves no other place for it. If it had been placed inside of the third panel, there's this awkward empty space in the fourth, and the flow still can't work because there's no way to create a proper flow with the character in the position she is in. Flow is everything. If the reader has to jump around the page to figure out which balloon to read next, he is pulled out of the story. And that's never something good.