Exposition hatred

I had a page all ready to go and then I realized something PLOT RELATED had to happen before I could use  that joke- ARG!! So I set to work on the next page and I'm not sure why it's giving me such a hard time. I've drawn and redrawn it about six times and it massively sucks. I'm going to have to suck up the suck and just post it. By all the gods of creation, I despise exposition. But this is a story and a story needs exposition and other assorted tropey stuff.