The depiction of time and space in comics in relation to new media is very thought provoking indeed. The most thought provoking piece to me being the involvement of "timelessness" and the use of certain techniques to implicate that time is passing and space is being covered, which i see as effects that determine whether an image is taken synchronically or diachronically by the reader. For instance, an image like the rainy day that is a silent frame is "timeless" because as you read the rest of the comic that one image is reminding you that, though the characters may be inside, it is still raining outside and this encourages the reader to experience the sequence in a synchronic sense... even though you looked over the frame already it stays present from one scene to the next that there is rain falling...bringing the past collectively to the present. It will be assumed by the reader that the original rainy sequence will carry through the strip until another establishing image is involved (say the rain letting up or sun coming out) then it reintroduces a diachronic sense of linear time.
It is in this sense as well that new media, like internet, can also pervade time and space. Blogs, for instance, will exist timelessly over cyberspace. all you need to do is navigate to it, even something written or created a decade ago can be brought to the present if the viewer has not yet seen the material in question. then seeing the date published could be considered the diachronic, depending on how the viewer relates it to their present state.
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I agree that I liked how the comic book depicted time by making a comic about it. I found it interesting how he would compare Japanese comic book styles with American styles. I remember that with that raining scene, the viewer got a sense of "timelessness" with this Japanese comic technique. It was as if the character was lost in thought and time seemed to pause with the emotions the viewer feels from that scene.
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