So, Scott McCloud talks about time frames showing us that how time is not static in a single cell. In other words, a series of moments can happen in a single panel. Using this idea I'm going to talk about two of our readings: Return to Sender and The Night of Melvin's Murder.
In Return to Sender the time frame is pretty much one second per frame. There are points in where it is possible that more than one second are going at once. This is often during conversation or action in regard to what someone else said. Aside from these moments however, it is one second per frame.
The Night of Melvin's Murder deals with time in a different way. You start off with the story of Little Johnny and what happened to him on the night Mr. Melvyn was murdered. You are then given hyperlinks with other names on them. Each name takes you to a different person and their story about what they were doing on the night Mr. Melvyn was killed. In this every "frame" of the story is happening at the same time.
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