I love hearing about the thought that goes into this. In this case it's about building to the punchline. I've read some short stories like this where I consciously covered the last paragraph to avoid seeing it too soon. In this case I didn't look ahead anyway.
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It's a constant concern- hiding the punchline. Sometime I get lucky and can put the panel with the jolt as the second or third from last and have the last be a reaction that doesn't give away anything specific.
Like this one here, the punchline is set back from the last panel you'd look to.