Wally Wood was one of those possibly brilliant artists who came of age in the years after World War II, working on disreputable books like MAD and Tales From the Crypt and the Mars Attacks card series that nonetheless shaped a lot of the way we see mass pop culture in this day and age. He ended up kind of a tragic figure, as anyone named Wallace Wood is probably destined to be.
Anyway, legend has it that by the time his career started stretching towards the tragic stage Wood had this set of images pasted on his studio wall at all times. The crazy thing is not only that these panels do almost always work, but that we see so many of these techniques in the "intensified continuity" of so much recent film. Although I guess you rarely see instances of anything like "L Shape Silhouette" these days.
Also, see Ivan Brunetti's 22 Panels for a bit of contrast, if you would; this may be more useful to many of us, for better or worse, who can tell.
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Wow, I had no idea that Mars Attacks! was based on a trading card series. Pretty cool.
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