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Now go start a flame war. Shan't. You can't make me. One of the main things about comics, if you follow McCloud, is the use of closure. I mean, no other medium (with the arguable exception of IF, perhaps) involves you with such a deliberate use of closure. Reading RLTD for me involves a lot of clos...

The animation makes the panel with the animation not comics. It could be argued that at any moment that you look at a comic with animation that it is a comic because if you were to stop time and read the comic, It would presumably be readable(unless there were lots of blank frames in the animation ...

I actually have to agree with Cryoblade on his statement that robots love to dance isn't comics. To me it's similar to asking is the following comics?: :x :evil: :roll: :oops: My argument would be that those are aspect-to-aspect transitions. They generally are achronological, but they're still comi...

Ah. Hrrrm. You know, I approached the whole comic thing from a whole different angle. For one thing, I didn't care for who wrote what and who drew what, and what writer was good, hot or cool. Perhaps I'll explain. ( No, I shall not not explain. I refuse to not explain. Skip this whole section if you...

Scott McCloud wrote:Aah, but Aspect-to-Aspect transitions are still divided into discrete reading sequences...

(scrambles out of bed, realizing something)

Er, and they're not?

You only get those kinds of musing when you have motion sickness.

Now, excuse me, I have to go lie down now.

[RLTD isn't comics] because the robot with the sign acknowledges the others as being simultaneously "on the stage" with him. Seen that way, it's just one single animated panel of a bunch of robots dancing. No sequence involved. Perhaps not. But what of aspect-to-aspect panels, then? Aspect-to-aspec...