While reviewing some of my classmates blog posts about the first post of McCloud I found one that was missing a big point in McCloud's book. This blog was posted by David Slaga and the comic he chose to analyze can be found at http://www.comics.com/comics/hedge/archive/hedge-20081027.html.
The comic is shown in 3 panels and is drawn in black and white. It's very "cartoony" and appears to come to have come right out of a sketchpad. The element that David fails to mention is McCloud's idea of space and time. In all 3 panels there are 2 or more characters speaking within the same panel. McCloud talks about this in chapter 4 of Understanding Comics by showing a panel with several different characters speaking right after each other in a row. McCloud does not consider this a "single moment" in time, like everyone is speaking at once. Rather we are walking through the panel meeting each character one after the other. McCloud describes this by saying that "each figure is arranged from left to right in the sequence we will read them, each occupying a distinct time slot" (97).
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