(Taken from this Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki Webpage)
My intended area of study is in web design and user interface, and this image, while simple, is oriented towards top-down visual processing. Comics in and of themselves are a kind of visual storytelling that tells a story through sequential images, the "cognitive goal" being to learn what happens next. This, being the first page, shows only one image, but the text interests the reader, and hints at the plot development that the main character is a man who is transformed magically into a woman.
Once the reader is done reading the page, he or she will probably want to proceed on - the "Next" button is available for just such an Action Goal; alternatively, other buttons are available if s/he wants to go to the latest page, to the homepage, forums or other areas to learn more about the story, its creator and the surrounding community. Because these are in a common format of taskbar and, in subsequent pages, the locations of these objects never change, the reader can easily remember or verify their locations for future use.
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