Chapter II's idea seems fascinating to me. It is about what we notice in comic books, and how images communicate to us. He mentioned that the artist can embrace any particular way to make realistic,unrealistic or surreal cartoon images of people and objects andto express their emotions of the character or story. Additionally, the greater the personality a comic has, the more simplistic it is. What i found out is that normally we see a lot of icons around us in more simplistic terms, very straignt forward and right to the point, which makes it easy to notice. And this is exactly what comic book needsin order to catch the viewer's eyes. However, after I read The Arrival by Shaun Tan, I feel comic can be realistic, and it should be done in realistic way. If Shuan Tan drew the comic in a simplistic way, it would have lost lots of emotions and cinematic feelings to the story and wouldn't have a such strong connection to a lot of people.
I liked how Scoot Mccloud said about picture, when they are more abstracted from 'reality", they require greater levels of perception, more like words.When words are bolder, more direct, they require lower levels of perception and are received faster more like pictures.
However, I think it is impossible to decide what is faster because it depends on the artist. A good comic artist knows when is the right time to use the picture, and when is the right time to use a simple word.
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