Comment on SMASH-UP by Joe-Singleton
It helps. If you look at a lot of old Marvel covers, over a third of the top is blank, or at least minus characters. Probably hard to train yourself to do that! 
It is! Its hard to leave space for speech bubbles and blurbs, too.
I hear that. I'm working on the Plantman/Porcupine/Nova commission and I'm really trying to leave the good stuff intact. It's one of those that begs for a speech bubble. I send you a copy when I'm done.
I send you a copy when I'm done.