"In the Land of Wonderful Dreams" dated November 12, 1911:
Transcript of Tweets by @LittleNemo1905 (APRIL 22, 2021):
Is it really worth all these continued efforts to ditch Flip? I mean… if they'd just include him, we could move on to some other adventures that didn't revolve around Flip finding a way to conquer whatever the group throws at him. - 1/13
The Magician is a really interesting character; I'll maybe ask @Totter87 to speak about him a little bit (if you would, Chris) since his visual design plays an important role in the' upcoming #LittleNemoGame that he is developing. - 2/13
Really just two other things of note from me. First, the fact that Flip gets the upper hand on Doctor Pill in this strip is quite funny… DP goes from being super confident to nearly petrified at the threat of being dropped. - 3/13
This is pretty significant because we've talked about the last few strips and how it *seems* that DP hasn't really concerned himself with the lives of Slumberlandian's caught as collateral damage against Flip. - 4/13
We posited that it might be because he knew thanatologically that they couldn't "die", per se… but if he is concerned for his own health, that might not be true. - 5/13
This causes me to see him in a bit of a different light… his vendetta against Flip seems to have no limits and his thoughtlessness regarding other Slumberlandian life makes him seem cold and detached. - 6/13
I've never really thought of Pill as a warm and friendly character, but with this potential realization, he comes off *much* differently to me… - 7/13
Secondly, I enjoy the color hold technique that McCay implements to suggest the fading of Nemo and the Princess as an effect of their drinking the Magician's potion. - 8/13
That said, for most of the strip the potion might work *too* well because Nemo and the Princess are hidden not just from Flip, but also the reader… - 9/13
This pretty much erases Nemo from the narrative and allows Flip to take centre stage here… as if Flip wasn't already becoming the central character of these strips, in this particular comic he takes on the role entirely. - 10/13
With McCay enacting a type of erasure on Nemo (only bringing him back momentarily in the penultimate panel as a segue into the wake up gag) the reader is almost invited to forget Nemo all together by not just narrative focus, but also through visual significance (of Flip) and absence (of Nemo). - 11/13
It has been fascinating to see the way that Flip has slowly taken over as the central character of this work and this seems the most obvious iteration of that idea. I'm really looking forward to seeing how far McCay takes it. - 12/13
This is my reading of "In the Land of Wonderful Dreams" #313. What's yours? - 13/13
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