Even though the art on these early pages is more cringe than I care to be reminded of, I am nostalgic for the white hot creativity that they represent. I was REALLY going panel to panel and I was surprised at what was coming out.
By about the 5th page of any of my storylines I had a fairly solid idea of what was coming up, and while it always remained a very creative, revelatory, process it was never quite as pure, quite as unbridled, as these early pages. I think it's probably hard to really understand what that's like until you've experienced it.