In Eisner's article he talked a lot about the science and form of comics how they, almost exclusive have the ability to use text and control time in the way that they do. The fact that Text can be just as important as the pictures in a comic, surprised me Because its one of those things that we all know and realize but never KNOW until someone points it out. Also the fact about time and the staccato rhythm it can create to separate, slow down, and speed up time is exclusive to the comic medium of writing.
As an artist myself i found The second part of McCloud's piece to be very interesting and reaffirming, the ability of the human mind to take images and make them into what we want to see is amazing. The use of images and icon by humans to portray ideas and such have been around since the beginning of our artistic origins. The simplistic use of icon to portray idea quickly and completely, is Completely unique. there is little to none other medium that can portray feelings and ideas as purely as images(music set side of course. Even if i hadn't know anything about comics before this reading these article would have definitely have caught my interest. I cant wait to get more into this subject and cant wait to read more.