Patricia M. Kirtley and William M. Kirtley
It helps to know something about the terms, attributes, and history of
comics before attempting to analyze an individual comic book. It is even more
important to start thinking like a child. Welcome to the Treehouse features
those knock-knock jokes that make adults cringe, but results in gales of
laughter from kindergarten through third graders who promptly repeat them
they swim in schools.” (Baltazar and Franco 118).
Analysis of Welcome to the Treehouse
This is a very silly book, friends.
(Monical, Goodreads)
an analytical foundation in Image-Music-Text, He sees three messages in a
visual work of art: a linguistic message in the form of a caption, a denoted
message in the image itself, and a connoted message that is the result of the
us how to graph transitions in Understanding Comics and Hendrix sends us
her coding sheets. Richard Jenkins and Debra Detamore provide a math skills
graphing activity in Comics in Your Curriculum. Bart Beatty, a comic books
scholar, continues to to do extensive and valuable statistical research at the
University of Calgary.
Comic book fans review Welcome to the Treehouse
The next question is how the comic book community received Baltazar
and Franco’s bright, lively, and fun comic book. The website Goodreads
featured 803 community reviews. Most reviewers gave it high marks and
some interesting comments were included (Goodreads 1).
“Chuck” couldn’t keep track of all the characters. Also there were two
readings. They noted that there were three Wonder Girls in the DC comic
universe and were not in the least bothered by the fact that two of them
appeared in Welcome to the Treehouse
“Sesana” argued that Welcome to the Treehouse was really “much
more about kids than super heroes,” and that “there’s jokes that require some
decent backstory” (Goodreads 1). Reply: True! No argument here, except to
mention that having a DC back-story and continuity with it makes it more fun
for kids. The DC universe provides an exciting milieu for young readers, but
the focus is on the commonality of childhood experiences.
“Michelle” noted that there was no story line in Welcome to the
Treehouse. Reply: In contrast to DC comics for more mature readers that
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