Been thinking about repetition in poetry (mostly Celan, Palmer and a bunch of other people whose name I can't remember) and repetition in comics. So, the latter is mostly limited to one image/panel being copied and pasted on the same page, something named, I think, "talking heads," as a dramatic device for dialogue (a device frequently used by Brian Michael Bendis, whom Reb Livingston is apparently acquainted with), or the the image is cropped to simulate the zoom of a camera (see Watchmen and a slew of other comics). But in the repetition of the panel, the caption boxes and speech balloons are typically not replaced. I wonder what would happen if a complete panel was repeated at a regular intervals, like when a line or two are in a pantoum or a sestina. Sure, there's David Lehman's experiment with comics, but quite frankly, it bored the hell out of me both as a poetry reader and as a comic book reader.

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Been reading Darwyn Cooke's DC: The New Frontier, where Cooke uses the three panel grid (which can be seen as a variation of the nine panel grid) to give a more cinematic feel to the page (usually followed by a full splash page featuring a big explosion or payoff or whatever). This has me wondering what would happen if one panel was repeated within this grid, but at various positions on the page. For example, panel 1 of page 1 is repeated as panel 2 of page 3 and as panel 3 of page 5, then full splash page.

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Of course, this is difficult to do without Photoshop or gIMP (okay, the latter is free, but I don't have enough hard drive space right now and my LCD screen is too messed up to do any graphic work on it).