OK... here's the final panel of the story...
It looks much more effective at full print size, but post constraints only allow for so much enlargement.
There will be a bit more detail behind the figures in the form of firelight casting and licking flame elements in the background... but most of that will probably be done in the color stages.
There will also be a decent amount of text accompanying the image... small scattered dialogue boxes to bookend the story elements... but there should be enough room in the negative space of the page to avoid any image overlap... at least I hope so.
Now I just have to come up with an apropos title page image...
