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1. Scott McCloud begins with a series of 16 panels of a boy demonstrating how his toy robot turns into an airplane. Six of the panels have no words, yet the vignette manages to establish both pathos and ethos. How does McCloud accomplish this? Consider the drawings and the words separately, and then consider them together.

2. Why does McCloud use the show-and-tell vignette to open the piece? How does it support the piece's main idea?

3. On page 745, McCloud uses dance as a metaphor to explain the possibilities in the relationship between words and images. Do you consider the words or the illustrations more powerful in illustrating that relationship? Can either stand alone?

4. What audience is McCloud addressing? In what ways does he acknowledge that audience? How does he establish ethos?

5. How would you describe the tone of "Show and Tell" on page 738? How does McCloud create it? Are the words or images more instrumental in creating the tone?Are there places where the words and images create different tones?