In reading UNDERSTANDING COMICS by SCOTT MCCLOUD, there’s a moment where he points out that a character facing the left of the panel presents a stop to the action because we read left to right. If the character is facing right, our eyes keep the movement going to the next panel.
If I said that wrong or it’s confusing, go check out his long-heralded study on the comic book medium. It’ll change your life. It reveals not only the workings of comics but of our minds.
So, with that idea in mind, if the way a character is looking can inform us of movement, so can words based on the sound.
START, because of the hard T sound at the end doesn’t move for me. The word START stops.
GO, on the other hand has the open mouth O sound that a singer could draw out. It doesn’t just stop it moves.
Maybe that’s why we don’t say ‘Ready. Set. Start!’
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