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* In ''[[Justice Society of America]]'', vol 3, issue 1, a wall of text is used to show ''[[Motor Mouth|just how much]]'' Cyclone talks.
* Parodied in ''[[Asterix]] as you have never seen him before''. Asterix delivers a barrage of verbiage that occupies three quarters of the panels and ends up putting Obelix to sleep.
* The problem has been endemic long enough in the comics industry to make famous one particular work offering a way to patch it: "[https://wwwweb.webcitationarchive.org/5xpKqEi1O?url=web/20110504012949/http://joeljohnson.com/archives/2006/08/wally_woods_22.html Wally Wood's 22 Panels That Always Work], or Some Interesting Ways to Get Some Variety into Those Boring Panels Where Some Dumb Writer Has a Bunch of Lame Characters Sitting Around and Talking for Page After Page!"
* In a recent{{when}} interview, celebrated comic scribe [[Larry Hama]], a penciler turned writer, observed that the format of Marvel Comics' books in the 1970s and early 1980s was often guilty of this, bemoaning the overuse of captions. "You'd have a caption covering 3/4 of a panel, [[Narrating the Obvious|describing the content of the panel it was covering!]]"
* [[Justified Trope|Justified]] in ''[[American Splendor]]'', as the story is less about the pictures and more about character dialog and Harvey Pekar's inner monologue.