I was immediately hooked onto the but to with what grasped me the most was his talk in Chapter 3 "Blood in the gutter" where he explained the space between panels and how it affects our thought process. In each space of the panel we allow our minds to create and time elapse into what we think is happening before the next panel. In a previous page Scott says "In an incomplete world, we must depend on closure for our very survival." In my mind it means that while reading each panel we must complete the action or have our minds find a way to understanding give sense to what is happening. such as the panel he showcases where a man exclaims to another man that he will die now swing an axe at him and the next panel is a scream with a shot of a city. Anything could've happened between the space of those panels. We don't know if the man who swung the axe killed the other man or if something else entirely happened. The axe man could have tripped and hit his head on the curb while trying to kill the man but that is the point Scott explains.
Our minds come up with what happens in order to give us closure. and goes with all comics. From X-men to Naruto the space between the panels of the comic have a certain magic that makes comics it's own thing, different from movies or whatever. The space makes our minds give meaning to what we are reading and there are 6 different types a way a comic acts in that makes our mind process the comic:
1. Moment to Moment - requires very little closure to understand what happens. Ex: two panels showcasing a women with her eyes open then closing them.
2. Action to Action - a sudden transfer in which our minds give meaning to what happened. Ex: a car speeding in one panel and the next panel it misshapen on a tree, possibly crashed.
3. Subject to Subject - a way of a comic staying within a scene or idea. Ex: the axe wielding guy then the shot of the city.
4. Scene to Scene - a way where it transitions us through space and time. Ex: a panel of a man stating someone can't hide forever then moving to a panel with a house and a text box which reads "ten years later".
5. Aspect to Aspect - this sets an wandering eye on difference aspects of a place, idea or mood. Ex: one panel depicting a living room in festive decorations and the next panel of Santa Claus.
6. Non-Sequitur - which offers no logical relationship between panels whatsoever so your mind is left to grasp what your are seeing to its own free will with no limitations!
All of these ways and thus the space between the panels helps define in our brains what this means for us as readers!.
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