Dosh thinks steepled fingers are vitally important to sounding like a grown-up.
One of the problems with comics is that you can’t show relative speed. You can’t, for example, show exactly how fast Maresh has gotten with all his Cultivation training.
Well, maybe you can. (If anyone has their own webcomic, feel free to tell me about it here.) I sure as hell can’t.
You could try pacing with dialogue and little mini panels “Where… each… panel.. is.. a… word” while showing Maresh bullet-timing around. But that may be a bit obvious.
Actually, you CAN imply speed. Best suggestion I can offer is to take a good look at some of the works done in DC and Marvel comics on the characters Flash, Quicksilver, Superman, and, surprisingly, Batman.
The first three show how to depict inhuman speed quite nicely, and the last shows how it can be portrayed in mortal proportions. Best way I can describe it is by showing movement lines, depicting both the start and end positions, and possibly a break-point in the middle. The origin point should be fainter than the finishing point in terms of color and opacity.
Hope that helps. 🙂
My thought was to show a panel of Fentescu in a dynamic pose, perhaps striding forward and raising the cane, and in the next he’s advanced maybe an inch, but Maresh is standing in front of him with the cane in his hand.