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Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud was a phenomenal read, it offered wonderful insights into the creation of comics and the lives of comic creators. There was much and more to learn from this comic about comics. While reading this I was able to immediately recognize the love for comics that Scott has, and felt throughout the entire thing. Scott's points on trying to define comics was a particularly interesting topic to cover, because it does in fact seem to be a somewhat difficult thing to discern from other sequential media. There was so much that i was happy to learn about from this comic I especially enjoyed what he said about the space between the panels being figured out by the brain as opposed to simply showing every second we are able to gather enough information to get a complete picture. Another topic that really piqued my interest was the differentiation between perceived and received information and how as you get closer to the middle of the scale you get very simple information.

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