Comments on: Dave in Slumberland

By: BMunro

BMunro — Mon, 27 Jan 2020 01:18:03 +0000

The lil’ Princess Helens are adorable.

By: vincentmuyo

vincentmuyo — Sat, 08 Sep 2018 20:54:04 +0000

Shame these weren’t in the printed collections. 🙁

By: eekee

eekee — Tue, 15 May 2018 08:03:30 +0000

Oh now I see where I got a taste for this syntax from

I had forgotten of its existence

I must find it again now

It is very pretty and curiously engaging

But the understatement makes everything seem deadpan

Except when it does not

Your imitation of it is nice

By: Conor J de Poer (nevanus)

Conor J de Poer (nevanus) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:38:28 +0000

I really love this strip. I love the colours, I love the dialogue, I love Dave's enormous glasses... it's probably my favourite Narbonic strip up to this point. I'm ashamed to say that until today I had never heard of Little Nemo. I wish I had.

By: Randy Goldberg (drgaellon)

Randy Goldberg (drgaellon) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:38:27 +0000

Rachel: that’s a direct take on McCay’s style, a trope stolen directly from the original Little Nemo comics.

By: Virgil Greene (klyfix)

Virgil Greene (klyfix) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:38:26 +0000

The "Dave in Slumberland" strips really are pretty darned cool.

I shall confess that about my only indirect exposure to the "Little Nemo" comic before them was, well, the Tom Petty video of course. :)

By: Rachel S. (masamage)

Rachel S. (masamage) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:38:25 +0000

I am completely in love with the writing of these strips. The slight wackiness of “I am coming on out,” the understatement of “That is a very bad thing,” the strangely cute desperation in “Oh Papa Oh Mama,” and the general lack of punctuation all make me very, very, very happy.

By: John Wells (johnwwells)

John Wells (johnwwells) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:38:24 +0000

Normally, the "Oh, no, this character has learned that he is doomed in the future" plot device doesn't worry the audience half as much as it worries the characters. Narbonic may be the only case I know of in which the readers expressed more concern about a Preordained Doomed Future than the protagonist.

There were a lot of things that could have gone wrong with the Little Dave strips, but none of them did.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:38:23 +0000

P.S: I don't get it. Panels 2 and 3 have a uniform coloured background (paper cutouts adhered upon coloured cardboard?), whereas panels 10 and 11 have somewhat sickly-looking coloured cross-hatching. What gives?

P.P.S: Caliban has somewhat blonde hair? Well, I never.

By: Leon Arnott (l)

Leon Arnott (l) — Wed, 08 Jul 2015 18:38:22 +0000

"Well, "done" is perhaps too strong a word. There are about 350 morestrips sketched. There are about thirty more that have actually been drawnand inked. I'm working as fast as I can, but she can't take much more!And hopefully the strip will last a while, because some of the stuff I'vesketched is set three or four years down the line."
--Shaenon, 3 Oct. 2000