Yes, the speech bubbles were probably the most tedious part of this comic. I'm not good at drawing ovals as it is, so these were pretty frustrating in terms of placement. I didn't want to do the handwritten way some artists do because it would look cluttered and unreadable.
Plus, I didn't make a separate layer for them, which made this process torture. I can tell which panels I just gave up on. Lol!
I suppose it's the first time I've ever done one digitally. I used to make these kinds of things with panels all the time in my middle school years to fill up notebooks full of (cringey) stories, but I never did them left-to-right. XD And they were much worse in comparison. Imagine boxes within boxes and like... 8 boxes per page.