Now, What D'ye Think of That?

This four-panel Sunday comic demonstrates the sequential narrative technique that defined early newspaper comics. A callow boy strips to his underclothes and jumps into a bathtub, claiming courage—only to encounter increasingly absurd supernatural events: attaining the "7th Heaven," confronting a mysterious quail, and seeing double. The recurring boy character, detailed cross-hatching, and speech balloons exemplify how newspaper Sunday pages of the 1900s established visual conventions that became foundational to comic books. The progression from domestic setting to fantastical consequences shows how comics developed visual storytelling independent of text, allowing readers to follow action across panels without lengthy narrative exposition.