Why I needed to map it out in the first place:
Even before drawing it, I had Lenny's meeting in my head: the spacial relationship. I knew what the place -the layout- looked like when I closed my eyes. The bar would be long and narrow, there would be a back door. The back door led to an auto repair shop, with a sunken down parking area. A ramp would connect the platform to it. The repair shop has double-corrugated roll up doors, with an inset door to walk in and out of.
Boring work? Maybe. But spending time imagining what the space would look like in real life made it so much easier to plan out the panels: where people stand, what's in the background. People who work in theater or movies (storyboards!) do this all the time. Same principle works for comics.
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