Having experienced a small level of exposure to comics, Shaun Tan's "The Arrival" seemed fresh. The idea of telling a story without text wasn't new to me, however I felt that it would be rather difficult to do so in still images without some sort of written information to describe the characters. I quickly re-assessed my opinion as the story was clearly laid out to me with each panel. As things unfolded I noticed the various devices used to tell the story without words, such as a pointing finger, a person scratching their head, and various other obvious gestures which would stand out as cliche in modern cinema but are standard devices for nonverbal communication.
The panels were very free form and floaty which is well suited for the light valued style of the illustrations. Overall I found this work to be refreshing when compared to the average comics I had glanced at previously.
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