"In the Land of Wonderful Dreams" dated November 05, 1911:
Transcript of Tweets by @LittleNemo1905 (APRIL 21, 2021):
Look, I don't really know what to say about this strip… I mean, what did you expect Doctor Pill? - 1/14
You put Flip in a vehicle that not only can't stop… but also gets faster as it goes… and you expect him *not* to come barrelling towards the Princess? The girl he's been chasing for about nine strips now? - 2/14
This is not DP's best showing, let me tell you that… not only might it be the most half-cocked plan he's ever put together (he literally turned Flip into a juggernaut), but it's incredibly dangerous for the Slumberlandians, as well! - 3/14
Flip is charging through, and demolishing, department store after department store literally collapsing buildings on top of the shoppers inside… and all DP can say is that they're used to being crushed? - 4/14
Dude… people are dying here, man. If death is a thing that can happen to Slumberlandians… collapsing thousand story buildings on top of them ought to do the trick… - 5/14
I want to say that the callousness with which DP approaches this situation suggests that there is some dream world thanatological explanation to support their survival, but that's conjecture at best… - 6/14
In McCay's defense here, dream logic is well and thriving in this strip… if a four-thousand story building isn't enough, it also doesn't break like the one-thousand story buildings do; it just bends. - 7/14
Clearly though, it either bends down far enough or Flip gets blasted up high enough for them to come together in the penultimate panel… let's say they met around two-thousand stories and call it a day. - 8/14
I really love the onomatopoeia in panel 10. It isn't a simple "BANG" spelt out in pure linguistic terms, but rather the word is a part of the explosion (I read it as linguistic concussive lines). - 9/14
What I love about this is that it enhances a simple sound effect from a linguistic intruder/imitator (linguistic imitating audio) to a bimodal communicator (visio-linguistic replicating audio). - 10/14
For me, the difference between "imitating" and "replicating" is important… obviously, we know that the visual modality cannot truly embody the audial mode (sound). I find it quite lazy to just slap a word in it's place and call it onomatopoeia. - 11/14
By combining the visual (concussive lines) and the linguistic (BANG), the two modes work together to do what they've best both at in an attempt to communicate sound. - 12/14
All that to say that I like it because the visual representation of the word attempts integration with the sound it's replicating. - 13/14
This is my reading of "In the Land of Wonderful Dreams". What's yours? - 14/14
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