It was impossible to follow
Yeah, we didn't have any set rules for the first bash.
There was no consistent character design (Nal in particular had like 4-5 different designs, so you had no idea it was him).
There was no consistent colouring (half the panels coloured, half not).
People were allowed to pick and choose their panels, even if they weren't consecutive, so it went like Hodot, Hodot, Dooble, Kimon, Hodot, Muslim, Doughboy, Dooble. Which meant it was impossible to follow along with, as you couldn't understand one persons design from the next.
Plus we had some really lazy panels, like a Spongebob Squarepants "6 hours later" sort of panel, which didn't really tell you anything.
For the Christmas one, when Hodot and I were gonna do it, we had set up a bunch of rules, and we were going to do some conceptual sketches of what the characters looked like, so that people wouldn't try to completely re-design them.
I think the main thing was just that people would have to do their work in chunks, so that at the very least, any 1 section made sense.