Questions on Bayou and Shooting War

I raise two questions for the web-comics, one each, that stuck with me as I read through each of them.  In Bayou there is a strong repetition of the hand and butterflies throughout, what do these symbolize in the story?  On the third frame we see the image of the dangling feet of a man hanging from a tree with the images of the butterflies becoming visually integrated with the drops of blood/they are the drops of blood?  Also, the tree roots are drawn like fingers holding onto the land and we could also say strangling the man.  The images of the butterfly or the shape of the butterfly continue throughout, but become most apparent again when Lee sees the butterfly-man underwater and frame 16 when the butterfly appears before Lily’s locket is taken.  The repetition of the butterfly in these scenes brings both a sense of death since they appear in scenes of death or possible drowning of Lily.  At the same time they appear to be forces of life/protection for Lee.  We see in 13 that she is surrounded by butterflies and nature can hear the sounds of the Bayou while Lily cannot.  What does this say about the black slaves relation to the land and life?(tree holding ground, maybe not part of hanging, but rather holding the man?)–particularly when 3 frames later we see the white hand come out of the water and grab the locket–a white man sees only the material and monetary? Seems appropriate considering the white men paid for Lee and her father to risk her life to find the little boy, relying on their knowledge of the bayou.

And for Shooting War I held many of the sentiments that have been posted already.  One question I have is if anyone else felt a lack of movement throughout the piece? And by movement I mean simply within the images themselves.  The images seemed to me to be very stagnant, on contrast to every other graphic novel we have read.  I think this may be because of the mixture of media and how those created different distances for each layer — it just did not blend well.  I was also thinking it could be because of the lack of the traditional frame/gutters of traditional graphic novels, but Bayou did not have gutters either and I did not have the same sensation.  The lack of movement of motion made this web-comic difficult for me to get through, especially paired with the large amounts of text that bogged down the images.