A Metaphor, pt. I

So this is something i've been kicking around doing for a long time now. It's basically an experiment involving panel layout. I know for a fact that i'm really really lazy when it comes to panel layout (what's that, you say? another strip in which two people face each other in a series of unbound panels going down the page in a linear line?), but i've also got some strong opinions on panel layout, and i thought it was about time for me to walk the walk as well as talk the talk.

What i'm doing here, then, is taking a very simple content idea (it's not even a joke, really, it's just a visual metaphor i came up with) and attempting to lay it out in standard comic book format. That's why it's going to take me five pages, because before setting out on this project i did some exhaustive research (read: read a bunch of comics) and established that most comics tend to keep their panels-per-page between six and ten. Interesting, right? Webcomics don't do that, but webcomics don't have to give a shit about paper page constraints. Anyways. Yeah. Bear with me?