Understanding comics

In Scott McCloud's Understanding Comics their are many interesting things that I have not noticed before while reading a comic book. One of the things that was an eye opener for me was in chapter four, time frames. The idea that we could see and understand time in comics, but not as a single moment but almost in real time. The thing that tricks are brain into the illusion of time is sound, closure and words. After reading the chapter it was like a light bulb went off in my head. I realized that I have spent a good one too, two minutes on a single panel because I was tricked into the idea of time. The way Scott uses a rope as an example of time passing through a panel is genius. He made it very easy for people to understand that there can be time and motion in comics. But also in that time and motion is where you get a sense of emotion and humanistic feeling. Basically what I got from this book is that the author is a genius in describing how you would understand a comic.