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this is an excerpt from understanding comics by scott mccloud.

"most panel to panel transition in comics can be placed in one of several distinct categories. the first category– which we'll call moment-to-moment– requires very little closure. next are those transitions featuring a single subject in distinct action-to-action progressions. the next type takes us from subject-to-subject while staying within a scene or idea. note the degree of reader involvement necessary to render these transitions meaningful. deductive reasoning is often required in reading comics such as in these scene-to-scene transitions, which transport us across significant distances of time and space. a fifth type of transition, which we'll call aspect-to-aspect, bypasses time for the most part and sets a wandering eye on different aspects of a place, idea or mood. and finally, there's the non-sequitur. which offers no logical relationship between panels whatsoever."