I enjoyed ratcheting up the tension in the first few panels of this page, only to break it completely with Dil’s mischievous giggle! I remember it being a very deliberate choice on a number of levels. First, and probably most visibly, the background changes from a light red, to darker, to darkest of all, and then suddenly back to the regular color of the wall behind them. Second, Dil and Ine’s expressions progress form annoyed and concerned, respectively, to furious and scared, only for Dil to break the charade on the fourth panel. Third, the panels zoom in during the first three panels until the frame is completely filled with Ine and Dil, sitting nose to nose, and then in the fourth panel it zooms back out to show the whole side of the room. Finally, Ine and Dil change in relative position with one another. Ine starts standing, then as he backs away into the door behind him, he begins to sink to the floor, then in the third panel he is literally lower than Dil, reversing their status from the first panel, until in the fourth panel Dil sits down to snap a pic, putting them at roughly equal level.

Since comics are such a visual medium, there are a lot of tricks like this you can use. And since space is such a precious and limited commodity in comics, it is often helpful to layer as many of these visual cues on top of each other as possible to really drive home the message!