Comics and Leaves

After finishing Understanding Comics for like the millionth time, and thinking of House of Leaves at the same time, it was interesting to link McClouds comments on words and pictures merging to the visual setup of House of Leaves. House of Leaves purposesfully sets up its texts to be pictorial (ie the window) and almost forms itself into a comic of its own. The psychosis of the mother glares at the reader in the terrifying way the text is contorted to be visually insane as well as verbally. In McClouds scale it would look like this:

P
/w
0
W /
p

that's his little scale thing with Words over Pictures. Not a perfect harmony (or dance) but a complicated marriage of the two.

Edit: Damn, my diagram didn't work. Well, you get the point. If you don't look at pg. 155 in understanding comics...