on how to place this in print.

(… in fact, those crystal ice mountains look a lot like a ‘splash’, don’t they?)

Absolutely.

It’s still possible. Rich Burlew did something similar for a falling scene in “War and XPs”, and what ended up happening was he split it into page-height panels, with 3 to a page. To really sell this one, the pages would need to be splash panels of Helen tumbling, but the one where she’s feet from the ground needs to be after a page turn, so that the “Oh” hits the audience for massive damage. Also, that leaves the right page open for Dave’s panicked wake-up.

I still wish a way could have been found to include the Nemos in the Perfect Collection. For one thing, the final sequence doesn’t completely make sense without the Nemo lead-in…