Recently, there are many comics which draw a laugh not always being in line with kishotenketsu, but using different methods such as nidan ochi in which punch lines come twice in the third and the fourth frames, and using a subtitle of the manga which should originally be a title of contents as a factor of ochi (in this case, readers will understand what the subtitle means after reading the whole four frames).
但し、最近は、3コマ目にもオチを配置した2段オチと呼ばれるものや、本来は内容の表題であった小見出し（サブタイトル）もオチの要素とするもの（4コマ目まで読んで初めて小見出しの意味がわかるもの）など、必ずしも起承転結に沿わない形で笑いを取るものも多い。