If I was assembling my rogue’s gallery of examples of how not to lay out dialogue, the first panel here would be near the top of the list. It makes sense once you slow down to parse everything out, but it’s not at all intuitive. And comics should always be intuitive.

(Heavy Metal Issue #235, March 2008 – Page 75 Colt the Outlander: Wanted Dead or Alive by Aradio)