I enjoyed McCloud's explanation of comics as a medium. I have thought of comics for most of my life as being a genre, characterized by low-quality, melodramatic stories accompanied by heavily-inked illustrations of impossibly chiseled masked men. Only within the past couple of years have I noticed that there are many graphic novels which break away from this 80-year old stereotype and squeeze the potential out of the medium. Graphic Novels such as Watchmen and The 300 do things that can only be done with comics (although the film 300 manages to present a faithful adaptation of the book's style and gritty, somber tone).
I also very much enjoyed McCloud's theory as to why cartoons have such lasting appeal. The fact that he uses cartoons to explain why we like cartoons only strengthens his argument and also shows the reader why comics is a medium with its own strengths.
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