What the three frames are doing
Bike Fall is a three-panel cartoon of a rider putting a stick into their own front wheel and then hitting the ground. People use it for an own-goal: a policy, a script, a post, planted by the same person who later suffers it. Gru’s Plan is a flip chart that presents a scheme and only then notices the repeated disaster. This comic has no presentation. The stick goes into the spokes, and the next frame is the yard.
Name the parts and let the drawings do the sequence. Panel one is the bright idea, still on the bike. Panel two is the object they chose to insert: the automation, the rule, the tweet. Panel three is that same rider hitting it. “Me, scripting the backup” / “the job that deletes the only copy” / the crash, with no new speaker, is a finished comic. Short labels. The strip is already a story, and a speech in every panel crowds the wheel.
The rider who plants the stick has to be the rider who falls. A third party in the last frame, or a villain who snuck the stick in, fights the drawing, because the hand on the stick is theirs. Two Buttons is a frozen choice with nobody in motion. An earnest bicycle-safety poster will be laughed at on this strip, because readers treat the crash as the point. A status page explaining an outage you caused will read as a confession with a helmet on it.
Panel one: “me, scripting the backup.” Panel two: “the job that deletes the only copy.” Panel three is the same rider on the ground. The obstacle is homemade. The person who plants the stick is the person who hits it. Short labels. The strip is already a story, and a speech in every panel crowds the wheel.
A third party in the last frame, or a villain who snuck the stick in, fights the drawing, because the hand on the stick belongs to the rider. Two Buttons is a frozen choice with nobody in motion. Gru’s Plan presents a scheme and only then notices the repeated disaster. This comic has no presentation. The stick goes into the spokes, and the next frame is the yard. An earnest safety poster will be laughed at here, because readers treat the crash as the point.
Three panels become one JPEG at quality 0.92. Captions are uppercased, white, black-outlined, Impact first. The sequence still reads if each label is a few words. A paragraph in the middle panel covers the stick, and then the crash has no cause. Save and check that the same figure is upright, then inserting, then down. The download is a still of the strip.
Name the idea, the stick, and then stop. Panel one is the rider still up, pleased with the plan. Panel two is the thing they put in their own wheel: the script, the rule, the post. Panel three does not need a new speaker. The same person hits the ground. If a villain appears at the end, you are fighting the drawing, because the hand on the stick was theirs. Keep the labels to a few words so the wheel stays visible. A speech in the middle panel covers the cause, and then the crash is just a fall. This strip is a confession, not a safety poster. People will laugh at an earnest warning placed on it. Do not use it for a freeze with no motion, and do not use it for a chart that presents a plan. Here the stick goes in, and the next frame is the yard. Check the download: one figure, three beats, one file.
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