@Aliamus - regarding pacing, I think it's worth noting that nowadays we get far fewer pages than we used to.
The magazine that publishes Skip Beat (Hana to Yume) comes out twice a month and, before it got big, the author obviously had to have a chapter ready for each one. Older chapters had...
First bubble of the first panel:
Japanese: 何で!何で!
English: Why!? Why!?
NVIDIA Scans: You're okay! You're okay!
Yeah... kthxbye.
@SteveJust: google translate at least gets that bit right.
@AaronBurger - her name is really Takanashi Sei instead of Takana Shisei (page 10).
The pun being that when there are no hawks (taka nashi = 鷹無し), small birds play (小鳥遊).