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I can understand why the giants don’t want to wage war, but still.
It slowly dawns on Alexander that he, as the ruling king has to do the tough decissions … Priceless.
“So I put them up for sale at only $10 each! That’s 80% off of the regular price of originals.”
Doesn’t work that way. Paypal insists on $45 for the Chapter 1 title page.
LOL, I love his expression. It’s easy to forget he is the official king.
Look at Nastajia’s face in the last panel, it’s all “Yeah, what the sword says, so go shove that in your granite long johns”
What do they have to worry about though? They’re made of rock. It’s not like they’re made of glass. Paddington already proved they are pretty much fireproof.
Oh dear. We’re leaving it up to Alexander? Haha oh boy. Wonder if he’ll do that talking to self “one hand…on the the other hand” thing.
Come on, Alex, think!
You = a hero, in a reactive armor, a legendary sword in your hand and lots of allies and friends.
Them = a dragon that only stays on the throne thanks to his nightmare f(r)iends.
If the ancient dreamlanders only lost the war after a hunderd years, then surely Alexander can tip the scales.
“muh” LOL
I can totally feel for alex here. wouldn’t want to make such an important decision either. ^^;
I wish him luck with that.
They’ll go to war if they have to, but he’ll want to find another way.
Thanks to Werepixi for picking up the reference in my last post!
Sword: “Alexander should decide.”
Alex: “Kiwi, prepare for dust-off, we’re gonna need immediate evac.”
Kiwi: “Roger.”
Alex: “I say we take off and nuke the dragon from orbit. It’s the only way to be sure.”
Alex’s reaction was perfectly done here 🙂 And referencing another movie: “Hail to the king, baby.”
Heh!!!
I think that this will be Alex first really tough decision.
After all he is the rightful King of Dreamland!!!
Something else:
Nastajia’s armor seems to have peculiar shoulder joints.
They seem to “float” over the breasplate.
Is this normal or a “glitch”?
And also:
Nastajia’s bow seems to hang from its string and not from a case.
I suppose that this is not the proper way to hang a bow because the string will lose its elastic properties in time.
Anyway…just some minor remarks 🙂
muh…
me?
great decision!:P
YES! YOU! Now man up and be the damn king boy, else become a dragon appetizer!
Well I only changed the prices of the originals I had already had printed.
The cover wasn’t in the stack I found. Sorry.
Not doing anything to stop a fire only helps it grow.
I just love that sword for some reason.
I think Alexander is only now going to get the fact that he’s King. The bit with Arthur and with his brother had sort of muddied the waters, and maybe made him think there was an escape clause.
Now the Sword’s going to hand it to him straight: “Whosoever takes the Sword from the Stone shall rightful King of Dreamland be.”
So it all falls to you.
In some ways the situation’s similar to the beginning of Mutineers’ Moon by David Weber, except that THERE Colin MacIntyre was a grown man, trained as a test pilot and a military officer. He had experience in dealing with dangerous situations, high responsibility, and so on.
Poor Alex is a just-starting-to-be-ex slacker.
Hm, so he does get a choice. The sword has been saying they need to prepare for the coming war, but would Alex really have the option of just walking away from it? Maybe war will come eventually, no matter what he chooses now. Or maybe the sword knows Nastajia wouldn’t let him get away with it. 😉
To know that something is the right thing to do it and then ignore it is the act of a coward.
I don’t think they’re cowards, just cockeyed idealists. They like to believe that every problem can be solved without violence, even when they can’t offer a credible alternative offhand.
I feel the sword wants to say ‘Alexander WILL decide’ rather than ‘should’…’should’ makes it seem like ‘he can if he wants, but no one is holding him to account’ He is the rightful King, it is his position to decide not to pass it along.
Yeahhhhh… Alex making decisions… there goes the neighborhood.
Nah, seriously, this’ll be a good thing for him.
Oh… Scott, the Wayward Sons advertisement just changed and now makes no attempt to obscure implied nudity in their new promotional. Good ol’ random Project Wonderful ads.
Armor works strange in fantasy art. For males, the armor is designed to protect the vital parts. For females, armor seems to be designed to highlight the vital female parts.
*BUSTS UP LAUGHING* Oh thank you Scott, those first two panels made my day.
I like Alex’s hesitance. Not only does it fit his character, but it makes sense. Nastajia grew up a princess, declaring war is one of the royal family’s duties, and considering how well she kicked pirate behind the first time we saw her as an adult, she’s been trained to fight. Alex is just your average guy in our world; he’s never had the responsibility to affect thousands of lives with one decision. I’m confident he’ll delcare war, but only after a page or two carefully explaining his reasoning behind it.
Pretty typical historically to hang a bow the way Natasha is. On bows, is not the string that is elastic, but the arms of the bow that do the flexing. And considering that her bow is going to be around 55-60lb pull, the bow arms are not even going to notice that the string is holding it up. Of course, for a long carry it was normally unstrung and slipped in the quiver with the arrows.
I suspect alto of Dreamland will react like the Rock Giants. As bad as ol’ Nic maybe he does not seems to really be causing great hardship for most of the Dreamlanders. A choice between the ravages of war and the cost of a post war recovery vs. dealing with the sometimes overbearing and usurper-us Dragon that has kept Dreamlander pretty stable and predictable for 600 years? All that happy time that Dan spent in Dreamland as a kid was while Nic’ ruled. I can see alot groups preferring the devil they know and have been basically content with vs. the uncertainty terror of a war.
I suspect that Orion, like me thinks a small elite strike team taking out Nic is the best way with the least fallout for Dreamland. I suspect Dan will end up thinking that way too. Really, other than Dan who can stand up to NIc’. The old lizard is a one creature army.
Also: magic bow – no string stretching …
😉
Why let Nic rule when the true king is right there in front of them??
Dan? I think you mean Alex.
It would be a hard decision. Dreamland is supposed to be a safe place for kids. But this is there home, thier livelyhood. War no matter what the reason its for is sometimes necesary. Only problem is once Dreamland goes to war it wont be safe for ANY of the children, dreamlanders and human kids. Also once war starts Dreamland becomes a mightmare as any country at war becomes.
Alex … are ya feeling a little sleepy about now?
I hadn’t thought about that, but i think I agree! either “will decide” or “MUST decide”
you should also remember, Nic just attacked each and every race in dreamland to destroy the tablets! not to mention that the Dwarves already went to war against him!
I don’t think going to war is a question… I believe most races (except of course the rock giants) will jump to war now that Nic has attacked. the real question is will the other races accept an average young man who is a bit wet behind the ears as their king? who is there to prove that he really is the true king besides a talking sword that no one has seen in 600 years? as it is most everyone already forgot that dreamland should be ruled by humans. it will really be up to Nastajia and Orion to convince everyone else that Alex is the true king!
If I were him I’d be hoping for a sharp elbow jab from Dan to wake me up. I think that Dan and Nicole would probably make excellent advisors (Dan for his love of Dreamland by proxy, and Nicole for her ability to be rational and unemotional).
And yet, the less the armor covers, the more it protects.
Scott obviously has something clever planned to get our Hero out of this hole. Nick is the King of Dreamland. Alex needs to be recognized as the rightful King AND defeat Nick. How is Alex going to claim the throne of dreamland?
If he decides to go to war he will need a lot of money to pay his troops and buy supplies ( support services, food, tents, armor, weapons ). Even winning the war and deposing Nick won’t make him King.
Something tells me we’re a looonng way off from Alex sitting on that throne. And something else tells me Dan will where the crown next, and in the end of all thing Alex will be sacrificed for the sake of both worlds.
Remembering back to Nicole’s story of her time in Dreamland with Felicity and how her friendship was RIPPED apart by force. Then remember further back when the children were snatched up by the pirates. With these kind of memories of Dreamland, what child would want to return?
Old Nic is using scare tactics to keep people out of Dreamland.
No creature should feel that this is the way Dreamland is supposed to be run.
And to Julie below, yes, Dan and Nicole would be great advisors. They could be to Alex what Merlin was to Arthur.
I feel that Alex has matured somewhat because he realizes that going to war is a big deal and that he is not like King Aurthur.
I’m sorry, this comment was meant for the next page.
Not that anyone’s complaining, of course.
I was expecting a Nastajia face-palm in the last panel.
Muh-m-m-m-m-m-muh-ME?!??!?!?!?!??
lol