Concerning the Slanted Lines in Cowborg

Cowborg is a comic very fond of wide, open scenes that bleed off of the page (or, technically, about a quarter-inch from the margin), and contains two separate two-page spreads, but apart from that it uses the typical square panel layout to communicate its story. To be fair, it's not a very challenging or avant-garde story, even in the realm of the bizarre- it's certainly no Steel Ball Run- but for a Chick-Fil-A comic it is pretty impressive.

The part I'll be drawing your attention to, though, is this section:

Now, these three panels are the only ones with slanted borders on their page, in the surrounding five pages, and possibly in the entire comic. They're also a montage, and all of the story before and after them is a clear narrative- scientist makes Cowborg, Cowborg trains, Cowborg goes to state fair, Beef-Eating Villain reveal, showdown, heroic triumph. This is a break from the story's regular pace, expressed only by turning the panels 45 degrees so that scanning them horizontally encompasses some of the second while reading the first, and some of the third while reading the second. No special attention is paid to it, but it manages to exist wordlessly as a completely separate timeframe.

Well, apart from the NA-NA-NA-NA!