2001 Space odyssey, page 100 (part 1)

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Here is my page 100 submission. Taken from '2001 Space Odyssey' by Arthur. C.Clarke. I recently became interested in seeing the film but felt I should read the book first, which I really enjoyed. I am hoping to see the movie sometime in the next week or two.
I ran out of time to post the whole page; this is actually only half of the page on a four tiered page. It was a really useful exercise to do as it really puts your story boarding techniques top the tests and for me pointed out some possible faults in my process.

My Page 100 Challenge

You know, there are many things that I really should have been working on instead of this, but I just couldn't pass it up.

I have to admit I cheated a bit. This is really only two thirds of my chosen Page 100. But I liked the way the narrative was paced out on the page this way. Plus, I got to play around with some elements like that speech balloon in the second-to-last panel.

Oh, and if anyone can WITHOUT USING GOOGLE tell me what book this is from, I'll send that person the original artwork. First one to correctly identify it in the 'comments' area gets it. That is, if you want it. If you don't, then gloat quietly to yourself.