Two quotes from Manohla Dargis's NY Times article on the 2007 Comic-Con

"At the same time, as Marshall McLuhan pointed out, the elliptical form of the comic book — which forces you to make cognitive leaps from panel to panel, jumping across that stretch of white called the gutter — means you have to fill in more blanks than someone watching a mainstream movie. It’s a postmodern given that all cultural consumers are producer…