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Flashbacks. On the one hand really good at exposing things without unecesary walls of text, on the other hand... it's also an easy way to confuse the viewer when it's not clearly presented as a memory.

What's the appropriate way to introduce a "flashback"?
'The overriding principle is to be clear.'
Most of people use shades of sepia grayscale or using 'photo' vignetting to come back to the past, letting the character actually tell&show the story. There three are probably the most basic and safe to use.
Some play with panel and character exposition so the reader actually is placed in character's mind, but there is also risk that this type of flashback might be unclear.
Some use the symbolism of colors and objects to create a subtle foreshadowing of what might happened. The creator is like a poet of flashbacks, he takes the viewer into the epic journey of travelling between past and present days.

There are also other methods to show flashbacks.
And other

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