Oh my goodness me! >.< What a compliment!
Panelling is actually one of the things I struggle with the most with making comics. I spent a LOT of time agonising over my thumbnails, comparing pages to each other to avoid repetitive patterns, and make sure the action flows correctly and the arrangement of speechbubbles doesn't get confusing.
I also spend a lot of time thinking about the page as a unit, and how to use panel arrangements to suggest something without stating it out loud - ragged-edged panels to reinforce mood, panels arranged in patterns that form pictures on their own (I've got a page coming up in my current holiday comic that looks like the face of a wall-mounted clock that has appeared on previous pages, fr.ex), using the gutters between the panels for things, using negative space, breaking panel borders, etc.
It's a whole science, and I feel like I've got a universe of things left to learn!
Some top choices of my own:
KISMET by @heyitsjaki - The balance between the concent of the panels and the arrangement of said panels on the page is beautifully done, and very clean and easy to follow. Jaki's also a dab hand with balancing her lights and her darks, and colour-coded visual elements. Simplicity is difficult to make visually interesting, and Jaki's great at it. <3
Bicycle Boy - [WARNING: contains violence and gore]. Look at that page. LOOK AT IT. Look at the beautiful use of horisontal strips that look like movie stills, and imply the back-and-forth nature of the fight. Look at the gorgeous use of colours to set each horisontal strip apart. And when you're done, look at this page. Splitting the page between colour and a big, bold black and white panel to cut through the visual noise and emphasise the sudden burst of noise and nrghgh this thing is just beautiful.
