Yumei Katana, a ninja-in-training who often saves the world while attending an ordinary high school, decides to take a break and visit her aunt in Hawaii, but assassines, bullies, and sweethearts make Hawaii even more dangerous than home.

Yumei Katana, a ninja-in-training who often saves the world while attending an ordinary high school, decides to take a break and visit her aunt in Hawaii, but assassines, bullies, and sweethearts make Hawaii even more dangerous than home.

Yumei Katana, a ninja-in-training who often saves the world while attending an ordinary high school, decides to take a break and visit her aunt in Hawaii, but assassines, bullies, and sweethearts make Hawaii even more dangerous than home.

Descendants carry on a legacy.

Descendants carry on a legacy.

**Nominated for the 2021 Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work** Drawings and sequential images are so pervasive in contemporary society that we may take their understanding for granted. But how transparent are they really, and how universally are they understood? Combining recent advances from linguistics, cognitive science, and clinical psychology, this book argues that visual narratives involve greater complexity and require a lot more decoding than widely thought. Although increasingly used beyond the sphere of entertainment as materials in humanitarian, educational, and experimental contexts, Neil Cohn demonstrates that their universal comprehension cannot be assumed. Instead, understanding a visual language requires a fluency that is contingent on exposure and practice with a graphic system. Bringing together a rich but scattered literature on how people comprehend, and learn to comprehend, a sequence of images, this book coalesces research from a diverse range of fields into a broader interdisciplinary view of visual narrative to ask: Who Understands Comics?

At Quagmire High School, class isn't canceled when it snows, but the students don't complain because they get alien days, robot days, and giant sea squid days. Poor Jeremy has to endure every kind of catastrophe and he still can't get out of his English homework. See what happens when every anime and manga character you can image invade your high school.