Reading and Writing about Comics, ala McCloud, Part 1

I picked a comic from VGCats (which stands for video game cats).http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=269. Here, we see a living potato telling some animated peas that he will be back with a new toy for them. The potato is supposed to represent Shigeru Miyamoto, the man responsible for Super Mario, Zelda, Metorid, and many other hallmarks of video games. The peas, obviously, represent his loyal fans.
many of the aspects in this comic are discussed in Scott McCloud's book, "Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art". For example, the third to last panel has a pea standing, but with little ((( )))'s around his knee. McCloud discusses this style of imagray twice. Once, in the chatper about motion, he states that could be a cue taken from film. On page 113, he states that "when a camera's shutter speed is too slow to fuly freeze a moving object's image, an interesting blurring effect occurs." Due to the little pea's knees wobbeling so much, the "camera" is unable to fully capture the image frozen in time.
Also, earlier on, McCloud mentions that individual panels act as a sort of general indicator of time being devided (page 99). You can see this clearly in the comic, but that it also uses a form of sequencing called inter-dependant to convey just how much time is covered. The inter-dependant-ness of the scene can be seen by examining the panels where it says "much, much later". Without that bubble of narration, we would probably not understand just how much later it was. We may think that the new toy was responsible for the apperent death of the two peas in the background. Having that extra word helps the audience understand exactly what's going on.
A final thing I'd like to talk about, is the eyes of the last pea-man in the 9th panel, or the second panel after the potato-man has come back. His normally blakc eyes have little sparkles of white in them, and he looks oh-so hopeful and happy. This is because of something that McCloud explains on page 129, about symbols entering the language. If a real human ever had sparkles in their eyes, it would probably be a sign of something wrong with their vision. However, because enough artists use that symbol to represent a certain emotion, it has entered the language, and now is a symbol for something that is typically invisible- an emotion..