My spouse has a rule for science papers: First, look at the pictures. She figures that people will put a lot of effort into their graphs and diagrams telling a good story.
Usual method followed by a lot of academics is: read abstract first, then figures, and if it’s still appealing read the conclusion. If the paper is still appealing at that point read the whole thing. That way you can cycle through a lot and stay on top of the literature.
This is a good idea. Depending on the field, there really shouldn't be any statements in the text about the findings in the paper that aren't directly backed up by "proof" in a figure. If you're familiar enough with the methodology, just looking at the figures should give you a good idea of what the authors did.
Rats! I only use xkcd style plots.
I think that's likely to get you a lot of readers.