Your writing is really good! It always flows; it’s always good English (except maybe when on purpose it’s not, but for some good reason); it’s concise——writing for a carton strip is very demanding, like a haiku or some other tight form; it’s full of humanness; and it avoids silly mistakes, such as typing “carton” for “cartoon,” which would draw too much attention to itself and likely make readers miss the point. I repeat, your writing is really good, whether few words in a panel or many. You have versatility! And one really learns that only when one tries to write some few words to try to make a good cartoon strip. It’s demanding.
What if the hippo is broken? Or the tiger?