Within Chapter 3, the author Scott McCloud depicts the importance of closure. It is a heavily usable ability of recognizing and relating to other people. Although there is much we haven’t or can’t see, closure allows us to relate objects to things of familiarity in order to create images. Basically closure is the rhetoric control of change, time and motion. Within comic books the usage of gutters, the space in between the panels, is a direct interpretation of the technique. The gutter space allows us to mentally connect the images within the panels in a logical way that isn’t necessarily given. McCloud goes on to say, “If visual iconography is the vocabulary of comics, closure is its grammar . . . then in a very real sense, comic is closure.” But closure is only powerful and as useful as the reader allows it to be.
Within Chapter 4 we learn that time and space is one and the same. Surprisingly enough, through the study of physics we also learn that time and space are one and the same. Time varies on the space or location. The panels and the bubbles create a timeline of the events occurring throughout the pages and ultimately the entire comic or work. When using closure it can be deduced that all actions have a set amount of time in which they occur. It is the reader who incorporates his own experiences of actions and gives life to the comic.
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