I remember a good few years ago, Torque was featuring quite an impressive particle engine. Right now it is even more powerful (I'd say it could easily compete with Unreal Engine 3), pulling a decent effect takes just a couple of minutes (mainly to create a bitmap)
Creating this kind of stuff from scratch would require a dozen of working days to create and than a few to polish.Actually that's what I had done for my first PS2 demo reel GravaStar back in 2005.
Anyway, the idea of adding comics style exclamations seems to be working fine (it looks way better in motion, static screenshot may be not that impressive).

That effect of comics-style exclamations looks neat. Perhaps you could also add a short video or a GIF or JPG that shows the animation. (You mentioned that "it looks way better in motion")
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