Understanding Comics

Scott McCloud posed a lot of very interesting ideas in Understand Comics. By far out of all the ideas he posed the one that definitely had me thinking differently afterward was his segment on the different types of panel-to-panel transitions. I've read a few comics and graphic novels, and considerably more manga, and have never really thought about what happens between panels. I've always just understood the passing of time or the scene changes as it is something you can easily get accustomed to by watching TV or movies. With this newfound knowledge McCloud has passed onto me I'm sure I'll never really read comics the same way I used to ever again. I'm bound to be re-reading pages to note the different kinds of panel transitions and when I see something rather unusual for comics I'll be some sort of giddy over knowing what it can be called. McCloud had other really good points in Understanding Comics, but none of them really effected me as a reader such as this.