Definite story padding going on today, as the first two panels reiterate yesterday’s strip. That means Jules Rivera could have created a single-panel panorama today to spread out the distance between Banjo Cat, Cherry, and Doc Davis, while leaving room for a nice looking landscape. That would have been much better than the cramped view we are getting in panel 3!

However, placing Banjo Cat in the foreground with Cherry and Doc in the background is a common artistic technique to emphasize “what was located” (Banjo Cat), while also showing the distance back to the searchers.