Action!
Submitted by Neil Cohn on November 10, 2008 - 15:30
In discussing this post of mine with Derik, I realized that I should post on the technique I used of substituting a whole panel for an "action star," like this:
This usage is somewhat similar to what I talk about in this older article on metonymy, and the same phenomena creeps up overtly in McCloud's famous "Closure" example from Understanding Comics:
In both cases, we never see the action,
