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Hey all…
The plot thickens.
Thank you all for reading along. I hope you’re enjoying this part of the story.
I know we waited a long time through so much talking and character development. I’m sure a lot of you are eager for some action.
I mentioned 10 months ago when this chapter started that this was a very “talky” issue. But necessary.
I hope you agree we needed the talking and character growth to get to this point.
Anyways. Thank you for reading.
Some of you have asked for the link to the wishlist again.
I’ve still not read all of the books you have purchased for me from a few months ago.
But…like I said before…I’d rather this than a “donate button”.
So here you go.
Thank you for wanting to do something nice for me.
It’s totally not necessary. But I’ve learned not to argue with people when they want to do something nice.
Just try to be gracious.
And for those of you who haven’t picked up your Sketchcards…here’s a link to that too.
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/2009/08/30/official-dreamland-chronicles-sketchcards-now-on-sale/
Ok. That’s all for now.
See you!
10:07 post. You’re late!
What Blew up?!
Oh geez. I’m scared.
Hmm… So I guess Nicodemus has reached Aethos too?
I don’t know why I didn’t notice it before, but Thistle’s trail is made of leaves, vs. Kiwi’s which is made of butterflies.
Paddington had baked beans for lunch…
Curse you, Thistle! Your capri pants hath drawn Nicodemus here and doomed us all! All because of your unquenchable thirst for capri pants!
I’ll wager that the tablets on the wee mesa are now burninated. One thing about Nick’s actions, though. If he wanted to portray himself as legitimate, wouldn’t he let the tablets be found and then discredit then thoroughly as treason and falsehoods made up by usurpers? By going out to cover up the truth, it lends credence to the truth and makes enemies all across Dreamland. Maybe dragons are the subtle political type.
That last sentence should have a “not” in it.
It’s a strange thing to hope for, but that’d be preferable to what I think happened. So yeah, rock giant gas ftw.
Since when does a politician have to make an excuse believable to have everyone buy into the lie?
I commented on that yesterday! It’s much more obvious today, though. 🙂
I suppose, between the slender build and the capri pants, and oh yeah! being a fairy, Thistle probably gets a lot of slurs to his masculinity (from non-fairies, mostly); so he’s probably grateful not to be trailing glowing butterflies behind him everywhere …
I think I’ll just leave THAT grenade just sit there, right where you set it down, and walk away briskly …
😉
I can’t find the link to vote for the dreamland chronicles…
I’ve been away for a few weeks and I missed everyone’s letters… even so I’ve enjoyed the last few weeks. thanks scott
The capri pants mines of Aethos. This is all Thistle’s fault, those capri pants of his angered nicodemus greatly, and not the centaurs’ only source of income, making fairy capri pants, has been destroyed.
Or, since nicodemus might prove to have at least some delegation skills, his minions. That would set up things for a battle scene to show us Alex being all adept and whatnot.
I was about to say “When the politician is a slimy reptile,” but then I realized I was repeating myself.
Lock and load, and all that stuff… I don’t think he knows exactly where the tablets are… If he did, he would have just destroyed that place, and not the whole damn neighborhood… I wonder what happened to the dwarves…
Anyway, time for good ol Nick to get another sexy (brrrrrrr) scar on him… He does seem to get a lot of those these days.
I love the look on Alex’s face in that panel!
love the sound FX !!!!!!
What’s up with Nastajia’s bow in the bottom right corner of the page? The string is taught as if she’s stretching it, but her arm isn’t there….
http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4274/default.aspx
I keep the link my favorites just above Dreamland as a reminder to vote.
TO ARMS TO ARMS!! The Sky is Falling!…..
I Noticed the “BA-DOOM” instead of the usual “BA-BOOM” for sure an omen of DOOM to come 🙂
Good Morning all!
🙂
Great. Nicodemus has gone from “burnination” to “nuke the site from orbit.”
Good Morning! 😀
oye!! I think that’s the sound of a large tower of rock crashing to the ground. O_o And yes, Alex’s expression in the next to last panel is awesome. lol!
I’ve enjoyed the “talkiness” of the previous pages so no worries on my part. 😀
At least it wasn’t the sound of an exploding toilet:
ba-THROOM!
What puzzles me is… why didn’t they have Alex go read the tablet before now? He’s been in flight training for weeks now, right? Wouldn’t they want to go read it right away?
Now Nicky is here and they have no time. It’s exciting, sure, but I am puzzled.
Anyway, great comic of course! Really loving it as always!
That would give Alex a reason to repeat his “Bathroom emergency!” line.
I tried to establish it as a goal to get to.
They weren’t in any rush. And Alex needed the training.
Honestly…Kiwi could have flown them there at any time.
But it was something they wanted to work towards.
OH NOES!
Uh, oh! Okay, no smoking, open flames, any kind of spark emitting devices, or radio transmission, for at least 100 yards…
“Since when does a politician have to make an excuse believable to have everyone buy into the lie?”
Never, as long as he has a biased media in his pocket…
Forgive me for critiquing at all, Scott, but shouldn’t panel 4 have said “What the heck was that?”
Otherwise, awesome page and plot development. No need for a flashback by Thistle, as the carnage is happening around them.
Same here, but I have it under a separate folder entitled simply ‘ votes’.
I second that! BA-DOOM!! XD
Can’t wait to see ol’ Nicks face when a flying Alex comes at him with a super sharp sword! Let’s hope aerial combat was part of Alex’s training! O.o
Nicodemus is not slimy–except his personality.
Yeah, I have to admit that he has this pseudo-innocent “Ooops” sort-of look. Could be Grandpa Pistachio though.. I can imagine that magic-loaded gas can be pretty dangerous. Orr… Nicodemus found the stash of gunpowder of the fairies and, very intelligently decided to destroy it by breathing fire on it..and thus, unfortunately, removing himself from the equation with a Bang.
It did in my script.
But saying it aloud…I never said “what”.
So I made it work phonetically.
I just have a separate bookmark set up. I have a list of favorites there that I vote for daily, and lemme tellya, since Richard put up the “Go Next Comic In Your Favorites List” button on the page (for them’s registered and have a list) it speeds up the voting greatly for the 3 dozen or so in MY list.
Still, with the directions Scott is taking us now, I’m greatly surprised and disappointed that his comic has dropped out of the top ten and is languishing at #20. It would please me greatly to find TDC as my second favorite, even though it is my true favorite amongst all that I read.
ugh… that *was* ten months ago wasn’t it… holy cow that’s a long time
I suspect that’s your cultural roots showing through, Scott. I don’t know where you’re from originally (I’m sure you said somewhere back in the archives, but I can’t remember), but I know you’ve lived in Tennessee for some time now. (It is Tennessee, isn’t it? Or Kentucky? argh … *archive dive* … yep, Franklin, Tennessee; but been elsewhere and started in … New York?)
Anyway, as a fellow resident of the southern US, my mind automatically understood the implied “what”. I’m at a loss to explain why, but dropping the “what” from an exclamation/question like that seems fairly common around here; I suppose it might be common in other parts of the US as well, but might be confusing for overseas or ESL readers. (Or maybe it is just a southern thing, and will tweak the New Englanders and Californians, too. I’m no linguist; I’m just shootin’ from the hip … 😉 )
On an unrelated final note, did you know that if you Google your name, there are 25,500 results? And while I didn’t check them all, I did skip through the pages, skimming as I went, and I only found 8 results (and those at the very bottom on the last page) that weren’t about you. Pretty cool, huh?
JEEPERS kid, show some EMOTION.
Explosions are always epic, but I am almost afraid to know what has happened.
Another prophecy has come true! Jamie Hyneman and Adam Savage have entered Dreamland!
i think the last panel could use a clearer facial expression, but I guess it’s just the lights 🙂 and nobody wants a Jim Carrey exaggerated facial contortion.
Ahh, that makes more sense. So they weren’t suspecting — until now — that Nic was ransacking for other tablets.
After all, he had that amulet for quite a while before and never did that.
The thick plottens!
Concur. It’s the same in the Midwest. We leave off words from the beginning, like in this case, but tend to add words to the end of the sentence; like ‘where’s the dragon at’ when other people would say ‘where’s the dragon.’