The story changes pace considerably after this first page. Here, we see the history of the rock across the eons and the captions do a great job of giving us the background that goes with the images. What’s interesting is that you could very easily remove the captions and the reader would still have a reasonably good idea of what was going on here. 

(Heavy Metal issue #121, July 1989 – Page 42 The Blue Rock by Theureau and Galliano)