Something I noticed when reading through Mike Mignola's Hellboy series was that these panels generally square boxes with straight lines and the story is told in the frame. What I found that I did not expect was the imaginative use of colour. For example, the page below when Hellboy gets angry and 'snaps' in
Hellboy: Seed of Destruction the background turns red. This is used to convey the violence and intensity of his rage, silhouetting his body against the void world of is uncontrollable fury. This is also used for another character in
Hellboy: The Troll Witch and Others.
One other very interesting thing I found in this comic was for a series that doesn't play too much with the panel layout, was this page, (below). Here there is an eerie menacing young boy, completely breaking the fourth wall. He only appears for a short time, but the way he stares at the reader with a sinister smile and actually cuts through the panel with scissors makes him menacing. It is more his behavior than his design that makes him so creepy, like he's fully aware he is in a comic book, making him feel more like a real thing trapped in a book.
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