The first two panels in the first picture makes me laugh. The flow of those three panels suggest that he made a pretty long pause between saying "Friends..." and "... or not.", and then another long pause before going down to the third panel. Not to mention that his pose looks really awkward in the second panel. The artist could at least have redrawn his head a little so that he's actually facing her a bit more.

The whole comic feels really rushed, because the artist doesn't seem to have learned that you should leave space between panels, not just for "dramatic" scenes like where Bella passes out, but to help with the pacing. If you leave a gutter between panels, and not just a thin black line, the reader's eye gets some rest, and you make it easier for the eye to move the way you want it to move over the page.

Let's take the page where the teacher talks about the blood test. My eye first jumps directly to the red spots on the test card. Then I can start to read the page.
My eyes want to move from Bella, along the speech bubble, to the hand putting on a glove, down to the test card again, along the speech bubble to Bella, down to Bella's eye and then along the speech bubble to the lancet-thing.

I don't know if that's the way it's intended to be read, but it's awkward to read the middle speech bubble, because I reach it from the wrong side. My eye moves from right to left, then has to stop and read the text from left to right and then keep moving left again.


Hm. Now I want to read Understanding Comics again. *goes to bookshelf*