Repetition and Addition as Coherent Devices in Audio Description of Comics: A Case Study of X: Big Bad English

: Audio Description (AD) translation is an important translational practice that promotes the accessibility of visual texts for visually impaired audience. Although AD has been developed to be a regular in performing arts and entertainment, its potential not fully explored visual-verbal sequential such as comics meet demand To fill gap, this article performs case study on commercial action comic series X: Big Badto explore strategies norms specifically facilitate achieving coherence are unique cross-modal comics, aiming at providing theorised guidelines future practices. Based language narratology analysis, three types visible interventions identified, challenging notion neutrality arguing reasonable additions adaptations can target text’s