Pioneer Jim Steranko used an effective scene change device where the dialogue grom one scene would overlap into another. The technique had been used for years in the movies, but Steranko introduced it to the comics. From there, Alan Moore was always looking for new ways to change from one scene to another. Sometimes he'd have the image at the end of one scene mirror the first image in the next scene ... ... and sometimes he'd have the dialogue from the outgoing scene overlap into the next scene at the same time making some relevant comment on the image or situation that opens the new scene.
     
SHIELD 1 (1968)



The scene made a really big impact on me when I first read it at the age of 14. It's still really effective (if a little corny, now), though it's not really overlapping dialogue, just one character carrying on another's entence. Probably wouldn't work in a movie ...
  The Killing Joke (1988)



I really like the way the last panel on one page and the first panel on the next were similar. Though the artist Brian Bolland is no slouch, I'll bet writer Alan Moore planned this ... 		  The Killing Joke (1988)



Moore and Bolland again - this scene change uses the dialogue from one scene overlapping into the next. Moore is especially good at making this work. 		 
           
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