Second Half of Understanding Comics

This seemed like a very similar read to the first half of the book. You got tired of reading it, and it over explained everything that he was trying to get across. It was incredibly repetitive when he was talking about one comic artist getting farther than the next artist, and then the next artist, and then the next artist. It definitely made me want to just put the book down!
I did like when he broke down the different ways of writing comics, and how the words realte to the pictures and visuals differently. Also when he related to the 6 steps of writing, how no artist is initially looking at that but in the end they always end up exaclty in that order of idea, form, idiom, structure, craft, and surface. I also found it interesting how comic artist showed movement and how not even thinking about that when we read we automatically know what that character is doing without the writer telling you that, "he is running very fast". Uniting senses and art must be a difficult thing to incorporate but once the artist found that gap it came to be a great piece.
When he speaks about the balance to comics being as much of an additive as well as a subtractive; but with too much or too little of one or the other is crucial, reminded me of our portrait essays. That is because with too much or to little description of the person we have chosen to write about can either make or brake our essays.