Comments on: She’d Have Been Blue, Not White

By: bAT L.

bAT L. — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 08:23:02 +0000

Nobody pointed out her one open eye, which might just because it’s not the focal point (hehheh) of the discussion. Snow White, here, is faking being dead. The dwarfs might have been easily fooled, but the prince can see through her “clever” rouse.

By: Mark Jones

Mark Jones — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 03:26:57 +0000

Yeah, Patrick figured it out…I had wondered if anyone would get it.

But on a more serious note, for me, willing suspension of disbelief would have to go the other way…I find it easier to believe that she was in a magical not-breathey coma than to believe that no one would notice a “dead” woman breathing…wouldn’t someone notice her chest going up and down? Especially in the context of this strip, where it is clear that the prince clearly *can* tell that she is breathing.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:43:34 +0000

Mark Jones is riffing on the MST3K theme, Bill: “If you’re wondering how he eats and breathes And other science facts, Just repeat to yourself “It’s just a show, I should really just relax “

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:25:27 +0000

I only mentioned it all all, Mark, because her breathing was the entire point of the comic.

By: Mark Jones

Mark Jones — Sat, 20 Sep 2008 04:00:07 +0000

If you’re wondering how Snow White would breathe, and other science facts, then repeat to yourself “It’s just a fairy tale, I should really just relax.”

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 01:50:53 +0000

John, in the absence of a reason to think otherwise, “our willing suspension of disbelief applies only to the conceit upon which we imagine a story to be founded, and not to everything about it” is supremely logical: I’m willing to accept the fact that Superman can fly, but I still expect the sun to rise over Metropolis from the east, not the west.

By: Usual John

Usual John — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:05:43 +0000

Bill, you’re O.K. with a talking magic mirror, but not with Snow White not breathing while she appears to be dead? That can be a strained argument at times - our willing suspension of disbelief applies only to the conceit upon which we imagine a story to be founded, and not to everything about it. But here, the talking mirror and Snow White’s period of stasis have the same explanation, her stepmother’s magic.

The Brothers Grimm version is explicit that Snow White wasn’t breathing and that the prince fell in love with her apparent corpse, http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/sevendwarfs/index.html.

“Snow, Glass, Apples” is a strange and disturbing story, but I won’t concede that it’s any stranger or more disturbing than the original. In the first edition of Grimm, the wicked queen was Snow White’s mother, not her stepmother, and in all versions she is invited to the wedding feast and forced to dance in red-hot iron shoes until she dies. Also, Snow White is seven.

By: Cidu Bill

Cidu Bill — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:34:36 +0000

…and marry the Big Bad Wolf?

By: FlyingFish

FlyingFish — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:29:14 +0000

Later, Charming would get bored altogether and sleep with Snow’s sister Rose, they’d get divorced, and Snow would become a bitter bureaucrat…

By: Powers

Powers — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 13:41:27 +0000

Morris, the Dwarves were balding even in the older timeframe (at least in Disney’s version).

I will note, however, that those are the wimpiest Dwarf-beards I’ve ever seen.