Comics come in all different shape and sizes. Each panel shows a single moment in time, which is crucial when reading a comic because the visual story needs to match up with the story that is being read. If there is space in between the panels, or blanks, the reader is filling their mind with whatever comes to mind that fits in the story that they are reading, so it is important how the layout of the comic is to understand and follow the comic.  However, when comics are filled with dialogue, certain dialogues are faster or slower to read because of the intensity of the certain panel. Where as an icon of a flash, makes the reader think, the character is taking a picture, and think of a flash sound in their head. The smallest details of comics can take the longest to process in a readers head.

When reading a comic from left to right, time can go by fast or slow, which was previously stated. But sometimes it gets too jumbled up with trying to match the balloon with the character when trying to read the dialogue and match it with who was saying what in the comic. When one long panel has a bunch of characters and dialogue in it, our eyes are trained to look at the picture as a whole and then individually look at single characters but it takes to much time to do do. So if each character was split up in single panels, the story would be easier to understand and read. Different panels make the comic move in a faster or slower pace so the reader can understand the story line better.