A Wonderful Halloween Gift from Earthsong…
I don’t know how or why…
But Crystal Yates (the creator of Earthsong) found the time to draw her characters Willow and Tengu as Nastajia and Kiwi.
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I don’t know how. I don’t know when. But I WILL find the time to paint me some EARTHSONG characters soon.
Thank you SO much Lady Yates for all of your support over the last 2 years in helping me get Dreamland up and going….to your friendship and kindness.
We missed eachother last year at Comic Con. But we’re going to meet. And I owe you a big hug.
🙂
Ok, I know this is a family friendly comic, and I respect that. However, I beg you, please do not do what the X-Men cartoons did. They gave Wolverine these nifty claws, and then, since it was a kids cartoon, he never actually got to slice anybody with them. Mostly he just used them to open doors. Terribly unsatisfying. If weapons are introduced into a narrative, they should be used to kill, not look cool.
Now, Alex has a giant sword. I’m hoping he is not going to go through every fight punching opponents while wielding a blade bigger than myself. Yes, he’s slashed a dragon and hacked at the sea-monster, but beyond that, he’s been very conservative with it. I think he might have slashed that lion dude…or the lion dude tripped, it’s not clear at all. Please either give him some strong moral motivation not to kill, or get rid of the sword. Otherwise people will become frustrated that it’s never used properly. Thanks for reading.
He did slash them as far as I care, not showing the anything more means parents can pass it off as just knocking them over with younger children etc.
Alex kinda reminds me of this lego figure when he has the helmet up: http://www.lego.com/eng/knights/products2004.asp?pid=8771
The third panel has Alex giving this look like…”Oh you did not just hit me on the back of my armored head…”
Methinks Lady Yates is a Dreamland Fan in addition to being an author of her own (very good) webcomic. I like Tengu’s reaction to the costume. Willow must have dressed her while she was sleeping.
Have you thought of using motionblur (if it’s possible) on things like this so you can get a sense of the motion of the swipes.
Hi gang…
Peter…
Alexander is swinging to kill.
If you remember the guards on page 310 they were killed. There was blood.
Same with Nic and the pirates.
I may not be OVERT about it. But I did grow up loving Conan.
🙂
So I’m not going to shy away from it.
I’m doing my best to balance it out for All Ages…but still stay true to my sensibilities.
Jordan…yes I have thought about it. But unless I’m actually ANIMATING Dreamland. It doesn’t seem to look very good.
THere’s no real good plugin I’ve found for Photoshop to make it work on that end either.
Any suggestions and I’ll take it.
Thanks again.
ooo, I just love Willow as Nastajia. Tengu’s funny too~ Just love this page, gave me a good smile.
Maybe Felluca as Nicodemus, then?
Ah yes, the blood spilled in combat. But I’m sure that you’ll be able to make family friendly disembowelments and dismemberments. Only the most tastefully done entrails and severed heads. Not only expressive but educational, too! Roll a mouse over a hotspot and you get a pop-up of Nicole: “This is the small intestine, where food is absorbed into the bloodstream. Here’s the duodenum, the jejunum, and the ileum, and this blood here is spurting from the superior mesenteric artery, which supplies most of the small intestine…”
Of course if you want to stave off the truly ghoulish, just say “I tried to put in all the blood and gore, but the detail was slowing down the render farm so I had to take it out to make the deadline.”
Heheh
Felluca as Nicodemus: Wadda mean I’m supposed to be the bad guy?!?
ooooo, nice sound effect on the pommel strike!!
Blood! Blood! Muahhahahahah!
…no. Maybe not. 🙂
Still loving the comic, Scott. Keep up the good work.
Hi Scott- thanks for both the action AND keeping it available for me to read to my littles. Not often you find a webcomic that’s so awesome it’s got everything… graphics, incredible characters, good enemies to fight…. and ok to read. Thanks again!
Oh, and while so many of us lurk about- WE LOVE YOU AND YOUR COMIC!!! Thank you thank you!!–
I’m guessing at the next one being a “Sword-To-Throat” hostage moment.
…followed by a cranial evacuation by an elven energy arrow.
Nastajia: “I told you the next shot would go through you…”
Although it is an awesome Halloween gift and a great picture indeed, and I understand it is Crystal’s drawing style (And it is indeed good!), I _DO_ get the creeps of those huge feet she put on Nastajia! But then again, it IS a Halloween picture… so at least she managed to scare me! 😆
Taking a human hostage in Dreamland seems kind of silly. All they have to do to escape is wake up. Yes, they’ll come back to the same spot, but it could be anything from moments to hours later. (Alex has done both.)
UNLESS… There is something about being taken to the Nightmare Realm from Dreamland that would alter things.
Yeah but they don’t have any control over waking up.
Well it could be induced. All they need to do is get to the good part of the dream, then poof. They wake up. I hate it when that happens…
I just saw Lady Yates link for the fan art so now my lil comic life is happy, two of my most fav comics making fan art for one another… greatness! :o)