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Happy Friday, All!
Thank you for reading this week.
And for those of you that were wondering…this is NOT the end of the Dreamland Chronicles.
This is Chapter 16. I have 24 chapters plotted out.
So there is much more to the story to go. I promise.
Have a wonderful weekend.
Scott
first (sorry, just had the urge to do that 😛 )
well, we still have more falling, or swimming, to come. i wonder if the mermaids are going to show up in that time
Hope she can hold her breath. That’s a bit of a dive.
“thank you for reading this week”….??…reading what???…there hasn’t been any dialogue in a month!!
Wow.. Pretty dynamic that first frame.
Hey Scott! Did you just skip 4 pages of falling…? 😉
(No, this is DIVING, or perhaps SINKING, not falling… B-) )
OH! A tip! IMO, she should keep her feet together and wobble them for speed, much like a dolphin’s fin. Hair and clothing ought to slow her down too much, and an elf just don’t “become her” with breast-stroke style leg kicks… its just not elfish.
Look at the previous page! 😛
Looks more like she was sucked in and lost control… wow, maybe it IS a tragedy ^^. Julia follows Romeo into death… * getting my handkerchief ready *
i think i can see alex in the last frame!!!
wait no that’s a fish i think, no wait its alex yay… wait no its fish
1000 yrs ago….in an elvish forge
Smith #1: Your Daft!
Smith Apprentice: I am just saying… armor plus water equals bad.
Smith #1: Aye, but these ‘Air Bladders’ you suggest are just silly!
Smith Apprentice: It’s just a thought.
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Bet Alex is wishing they had sprung for the full options package now. 😛
what i say yesterday perfect vertical with hardly any splash… and she already swimming like “flipper”(60’s tv refrance).. if the anything her armor will help her sink.. um swim down faster…
just had a thougth..after my 1st post… she gets to the bottum and the merpeople are already there alex is fine nic is in chains and alex says “what kept you??” causeing her to hug him in relief or bean him on his noggen…
That first panel really could be a painting. Beautiful work man, just beautiful.
I do wonder what she find at the bottom though, what WAS Nic up to anyway!?! O_o
Whoa, she’s good! And a surprisingly fast swimmer for an elf from the woods…
I thought one of those rubble pieces were a microwave for some reason …
Good page though. Underwater scenes are tough to do convincingly I’d assume.
It’ll be a long trip to the top for air if the mermaid/merman don’t come. You think Alex can use his flying powers to propell them upward even when underwater?
Where is the sword? I mean, isn’t supposed to be with the king wherever he is to record his deeds? or is it that Alexander is no longer king??!!
Nahhhh…. it’s still falling… just slowly.
Obviously she doesn’t sink like a brick.
That’s not a diologue, that’s a monologue, and a short one at that. hehe.
PLEASE reach Alex and Nick on Monday, or have the two wake up and fight or just something besides sinking and diving.
Wow! Nastajia can fly underwater! Maybe there’s more to that cape than meets the eye…
NIce work with the bubbles dragging everything & us all down & down & down….
this is a “graphic” novel… so read with your eyes!
Everyone’s talking about the mermaids, but previously, Nastajia, blew the conch to let the merpeople know they were coming. http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-06/page-369/
it’s not flying, it falling… with style 🙂
Glad to hear it’s not the end! 😀 I look forward to these updates. Even after it DOES end, I’ll probably continue to check back regularly for weeks…xD
Did anyone else get a Hecules flashback?
Whatever Scott had planned for the final AND permanent demise of Nicodemus will be worth waiting until Chapter 24! That old dragon isn’t gone by a long shot! The way Scott surprises us, there will be new and strange enemies to Alexander and Nastajia. All we can do in bicker, complain and wait….
Um Scott, with the way her shoulder guards are angled, when she hit the water, wouldn’t it practically rip her shoulders off? or at least stop all forward momentum?
This. Is. Awesome!!!!
i hope she can hold her breath for a long time and with stand all that water pressure before her head explodes.
As long as the shrieking eels don’t show up.
I certainly did. ‘Cept, it’s reversed… Maybe -SHE- will be offered to become a Goddess?
Hey, he could be dead. Who knows.
There -is- still the Nightmare realm to deal with, so maybe they’ll send some big-baddy that was pulling the strings with Nic, causing him to have thought the way he did: Humans = BAD.
So you want her to become a WoW elf?
I’m a little confused by the angle of her head in that first shot… it looks like her neck is bent waaay too far back. Love the composition of that panel though!
Elven Armor It lets you keep falling and falling and falling…..
*Imitating Energizer commercial*
Those shoulders would create some serious drag in the water.
Yes. The ability to ‘fly’ comes from being in dreamland in general. The ‘flying’ really is just free movement in space, with the ground and possibly sky as boundaries.
In this case the ground is really the bottom of the ocean.
nice Toy Story joke
Uhhh its Juliet not Julia. (sorry but the OCD girl inside me wouldn’t let it go)
Yeah, I agree with the shoulder.. guards? creating drag… they look like they’d be those most hindersome out of everything! Assuming that drag exists in Dreamland water…
Very wonderful update, despite no words — especially the first frame! =D
Oh, and I don’t have any graphic design / drawing experience, but did you have to paint all the bubbles and splash effects by hand? Wow!
In the second panel it looks to me that she is holding on to that chunk of rubble to help pull her down…
Meh, it’s a fantasy world, to the Nightmare realm with physics. :-p
As apposed to?
Do you mean that little splotch to the bottom of the last panel?
^ This.
This entire series is epic. Found it referenced in a comment on the comic Suppression, and figured I would check it out. Spent all night reading it. Can’t wait to read 17-24! Keep up the great work, you have another loyal fan!!
yes
I was thinking the same thing about the shoulder guards. From that height any landing in the water will be hard, but the shape of her armor would catch the water. If you ever revisit this, it might be a good idea to have her throw them and the cape off before leaping. Once in the water the cape would be a hindrance as well.
Why, reading with your nose, of course.
Nastajia: “Oh crap, I forgot to use the shell phone first…”
Alex has drowned. Respawn?
Nastajia has drowned. Respawn?
Braille, clearly.
*Last checkpoint: At the Walls of Astoria. Refight Astoria Siege?*
(Alex and Nastajia) Awwww…