Pacing is the term used to describe the speed at which narrative information is delivered – in other words, how fast or slow the story moves. If you’re reading something and get the feeling that some scenes were rushed, a plot point went by in the blink of an eye, or that something is taking way too long to get to the point and you wish it would just speed up… those are common issues with the story’s pacing. Every story is a little different; a meandering slice of life story has different pacing needs from an action thriller, or a sci fi adventure.

A story whose natural pace is very slow is considered decompressed, and a story which delivers its information very quickly is called compressed. Visually speaking, manga tends to favour decompressed storytelling, with individual pages containing fairly few panels and less dialogue, while western superhero comics tend to be extremely compressed, with pages containing more panels and a lot of dialogue balloons.

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Episode Release Date: November 17, 2021

Episode Credits

Kristen Lee (@feathernotes) - she/they, ghostjunksickness.com lunarblight.com

Christina Major (@delphina2k) - she/her, sombulus.com

Ally Rom Colthoff (@varethane) - she/they, chirault.sevensmith.net wychwoodcomic.com

Claire Niebergall (Clam) - she/her, phantomarine.com

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The Intro "DO IT (feat. Shia LaBeouf)", and the Outro "It's Good To See You Again!!", both by Adrianwave, have been used and modified in good faith under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Licensed. Edits include: Fade IN/OUT, and a repeat added to the beginning of "It's Good To See You Again!!". For more information on this creative commons use, please reference https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.