One of the ways they show movement is the example to the left. In this image, the Flash is shown in three images in progression. The bubbles show movement within the water. This shows the reader the character in different stages of his path but it also shows the entire path at once. The reader can take this as his moving fast or that he was simply moving at all.
On the right, motion is shown through the splashes of water, motion lines in the bottom corner (there is more to the comic page), and through the lines in the sand caused by the Flash dragging his hand to drag himself out of the water. On this page, all but one frame has some form of motion. Given that there are so many instances of movement, it would be repetitive for there to only show one form of it.
On the left, motion is shown through both lines and the colour red which is associated with the Flash and his powers. The character simply standing in the form that they are shown in might have been enough; however, it would not point towards his moving at Flash speed, only regular speed.Again, on the right, lines suggest the motion of zooming in on a face as well as one character hits another.
This comic uses motion lines, colour, pictures, body position, and multiple bodies in succession all to show the reader various ways and speeds of movement. If there was only one method, it would be too frequently repeated given how much movement there is in this piece. The artists needed to employ many different methods in this single comment in order to show the variety that the characters would have used, were they real people.
-- Kelsey
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