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What I meant by flow was that at certain times in the comic you can't immediately tell wether you want us to read left to right or top to bottom. In page two, for instance, the last for panels are arranged in a square, which to my eye doesn't clearly state whether I should be reading left to right or top to bottom. Panel size, shape, and position has a lot to do with this- If you had aligned the right panel below the left one, that would have been a clue to read left to right, as your eyes would follow that zig-zag from left-right-left-right. However, if you had tilted the bottom line of the left panel down at an angle slightly, then your eyes would naturally follow that edge to the panel beneath it.
Try and use the gutters, the borders, and the panel layouts to create sublte arrows and sight lines that will easialy move the reader's eye from place to place.
A good way to test this is to take your comics page, remove all the graphics, and see where your eyes go with just the panel divisions in there. If you find your eyes tracking the page the way you want it to without even being any dialogue or pictures, then your layout is set.
Oh, and one last thing: PLEASE use a computer font for your dialogue. It's really hard to read as it stands.
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