Response Three

McCloud shows the different ways that cartoons show the elapse of time. This is done with frame size or text in most cases but in the case of Zombie and Mummy the creator uses how the viewer scrolls the screen to break the time frames into sequence. I think that it is a more modern and perhaps better way for the viewer to understand the concept of time changing and scene change. The viewer cannot see the previous frame when reading the current scene and that gives not only a implied time lapse but a more physical idea of time. The scrolling also aides in the sequence that the cartoon flows. Rather than having multiple scenes on one page and having the viewer follow the scene in hopefully the right order, the viewer has no choice but to read in the order that the cartoons appear on the page. Idea of sequential writing does not always mean that the story must follow a single plot line. With Carl Stories the viewer can create many different story lines to end up with the end of the story. Choosing the longest or shortest path to the end. This is breaking apart the idea of the cartoon story following frame after frame till the end. Geniwaite uses this idea in a way with The Night of Melvin’s Murder. With the link associated with the characters name and phrases. If the reader chose to click the link not in the order of the text but instead in a random fashion they would be reading a different story altogether. By choosing which one to click and when, as the reader clicks the links they find out pieces of the story in different orders, so each reader will get the story in a totally different way. Both time frame and sequence can change the way a viewer understands and perceives a story.