The various stories in both anthologies range from the ridiculous to the poignant to the sublime. We didn't want to be that clever about it. Really we just wanted the book to have really strong art and really strong stories. It's not mandatory, but there are 18 of us in the group now, so if you want, you can have 18 different opinions. But this is comics, not animation.
Comics are different than just storyboarding for animation.
You can get away with more because you don't have to show everything happening. Things can happen between panels. I wanted it to be clear but not obvious, and I didn't want the viewer, I mean reader, to finish it in five minutes and then be done with it. It was a tiny little puzzle. Such as the five little panels that run parallel on the bottom of each page.