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Originally Posted by Solitaire1
In comic books, they have recently begun using color-coded boxes to indicate who is speaking when the characters are not on the page (such as during flashbacks) and when showing a character's thoughts. It is much less confusing than using traditional thought balloons all over the page since you can put the text box in the corner of the panel and the colors make it clear who is speaking/thinking.
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I am unfamiliar with new-ish comic books, but I have a vague memory of my old Superman comics using a thumbnail image of Supe in a box at the top of the panel with the text when he's supposed to be remembering or telling backstory and dialog that are illustrated in the panel.