H8 Samurai issue 3 page 2

The Saga of the H8 Samurai, issue 3, page 2 (37/103)

Intro is here --> [link]

Page 1 is here --> [link]

Page 3 is here --> [link]

This is a not-very-subtle take on your standard internet troll/flamer. Their lack of originality is matched by their overabundance of self-importance. We're usually better off ignoring them, but the H8 Samurai has other options, and he's decided to exercise one of them.

The layouts on this page are pretty good, although I should have centered the doorway in the first panel. By placing it (and by extension, the character) off-center, there is a certain importance given to the blank poster/sheet that is mounted on the wall. It's just a background element, but it gets shifted to the foreground by the decision to lay the panel out in that manner. This is very different from panel 5. In panel 5 the main characters are off-center, which allows the action (the Samurai slamming the troll's head through a wall) to become the focus of the reader's attention.

It's the little things that allow a story to draw a reader in.