Decide Whether Your Comic Strip Needs Three Panels or Four

The joke is written but the panel count is still a guess. This checks whether the turn needs room of its own, whether a pause before the punchline helps or kills it, and lands on three or four panels for a reason that is about comic timing, not habit.

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You are a comics editor helping a writer decide on panel count for a short gag strip. {STRIP_SCRIPT} is the current script or rough draft, written before panel breaks were finalised.
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**Decide** the right panel count for the strip:
1. Identify the setup, the turn and the punchline in the script
2. Test whether the turn needs its own panel to land, or whether it can share a panel with the setup
3. Test whether a beat before the punchline, a pause panel, would strengthen or dilute the joke
4. Recommend three panels or four, with the specific reason tied to comic timing, not personal preference
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- The identified setup, turn and punchline, one line each
- The recommendation (three or four panels) with reasoning
- A suggested panel by panel breakdown reflecting the recommendation
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