Arizona was originally standing next to Arecibo in panel 4, but in penciling the page it felt obvious that he should be standing next to Anchonin (you may not remember it but this guy’s name is Anchonin. It doesn’t matter that much). In order to make that readable, I had to adjust panel 3 so that Anchonin was near Arizona rather than being near Fairfax Carter, which also made it impractical to include Fairfax in the panel at all. I don’t think it’s a great loss.
In general, working with this ridiculous number of characters in a scene is challenging, because if a character is gone for TOO long it might start to feel like they left and went somewhere else, which means trying to pop them into panels every now and then even if they have nothing to “do”. But also maintaining consistency regarding the relative locations of TEN CHARACTERS (JESUS) while ALSO getting them to be “properly” arranged for dialogue flow in each individual panel is SO ANNOYING, and I confess that I’ve been extremely lax with it in this scene. This is part of why I have them standing in the outfield; it’s a large empty space where the closest landmarks are really far away, so characters’ positions don’t have to be very precise. Hopefully, if we stay in the outfield, the reader will be more focused on the dialogue and the action of the characters, rather than getting confused trying to fill in the gaps of how the characters are moving from point A to B.
Also I added the panel of Kay pulling Fairfax over later. I think if it had been part of the original layout I would’ve allotted it enough room to make it clearer what exactly is happening (Kay is “choking” him with the chain between her handcuffs).