My favorite part of this speech (that wasn't directly in Understanding Comics) is the exploration of future forms of comics. Online comics are now everywhere, and I think its important we do maintain the difference between comics, and new emerging media. McCloud talks mostly about the necessity for space in comics to maintain its relationship to time, and discusses that motion within a panel defeats the idea of moving from one panel to another. I understand that visual the space is the same with sound, but I have a problem with the new motion comics Marvel has been releasing. They exist as an awkward demi medium between animation and comics. Its important to choose which elements should be added into a new medium, and i'm glad he explores the reasons why some forms work and some don't.
My father always said that one generation studied science so that the next could have the opportunity to turn around and waste it all on the arts.
