This may be related to Scott McCloud's analysis of comic frame transitions in Understanding Comics [0]. I don't have my copy in front of me, but from memory he observed that Japanese manga has a much larger amount of aspect-to-aspect transitions, whereas traditional American super hero comics are more heavily saturated in action-to-action and subject-to-subject.
This may be related to Scott McCloud's analysis of comic frame transitions in Understanding Comics [0]. I don't have my copy in front of me, but from memory he observed that Japanese manga has a much larger amount of aspect-to-aspect transitions, whereas traditional American super hero comics are more heavily saturated in action-to-action and subject-to-subject.
0: http://www.d.umn.edu/~cstroupe/ideas/assets/mccloud_transiti...
I think that makes sense to me. I thought it had something to do with the amount of flashbacks or concurrent story lines or something.