Chapter 5 talks about how comic artists evoke emotions and imagery through they're comics through shape line and color. McClouds parralleled comics with expressionism and the idea of uniting the senses called synaesthetics which are distortive by nature, and talks about that when comic artists use visual metaphors repeatedly they enter the parameters of language. It's interesting how he refers to these symbols as going from visable to invisable to represent something that goes from just using one sense, sight to evoking another (i.e smell through flies, etc.)
Chapter 6 deals with the show and tell aspect of comics where we use words and images together to get meaning that you couldn't get if only using one or the other. I found it interesting when he pointed out how much we rely on this form of communicating as children and how as we grow images are slowly eliminated from the texts we read (Which is really made me think because when I bought this book I was so flabbergasted that there were so many images I automatically assumed it wouldn't be a very informative book, boy was I wrong). It's so amazing that as the written word has grown images have changed so much from what they once were. McCloud says that there is an equation of how much images and words need to be the right equality between pictures(P) and words(W). The more of one there is, the less of the other is needed.
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