Page 1500…
Happy Monday, All!
Today is the last day of the hieroglyphics. Was fun to do…but looking forward to getting back to normal storytelling (especially to try out the new computer).
In case you hadn’t noticed…today is our 1500th page.
Yay!
Thank you all for reading along.
See you tomorrow.
Scott
They made Angel Island?! Sweeeeet!
That last panel is giving me an “Ivory Tower from the end of the Neverending Story” feeling. :p
and let me tell you now precious, we don’t likes outsiders and nasty hobits’s
I was thinking Castle in the Sky.
So they may encounter some Egyptian descendents….who will treat Felicity as a god for being part cat.
I wonder if the Guardians are still sympathetic to Nicodemus. They’ve been very cut off from the rest of Dreamlands, and form the above, it sounds like he had a role in saving them from the Nightmare Realm.
I’m so hoping there will be a red echidna of some sort when they get there.
WOOT! Page 1500!
Sorry. 🙂
One thing that still bothers me is that a land of Egyptians has a Greek name. Sure, the Greek conquered Egypt here in Wakeland… but this, if my memory servers me right, happened about a thousand years after Ramses II.
Now, TWC. After rising to #3, we’re #4 again. We did a good job, 4,310 votes this far, but others did better. The current #3 has 4,667.
No big deal, really. As of May 5 we had about 734 average votes a day. We could at least keep #3 if it lasted. Alas, this average dropped to 615.7 during the weekend. That’s why we’re sliding down.
You know what to do, fellow Dreamies. Vote! And keep on voting during weekends. It only takes a few clicks and less than a minute.
Can’t believe I forgot, congratulations on 1500! Looking forward to another 1500 🙂
Happy 1500 page day 🙂
Happy 1500 Scott! Here’s to the next 1500!!! 😉
By the way, LOVING this story development, so excited to see what the city is really like. And I too got a Never Ending Story vibe from that last panel, in a good way. A VERY good way. ^_^
Happy 1500 😀
Congrats on 1500! And the story is still engaging and enjoyable.
Keep up the great work!
Yay! 1500 pages! *snoopy dance of joy* Scott, this is awesome work! 🙂
Love the last panel – very Neverending Story-ish (also one of my very favorite stories).
Fellow, Dreamies, don’t forget to vote: http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4274/default.aspx – We can easily make it to #3!
This floating city reminds me of some other fictional similar cities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floating_island_%28fiction%29) and of course the Netheril floating cities (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netheril)
As I can understand Seraphopolis is the sanctuary and thus there might live Arthur and the parents of Nastajia.
But I will wait to see how the plot reveals itself.
Here’s to the next 1500 pages!!!!! :):):)
Laputa was my first though (Gulliver’s Travels), but Angel Island (or the Floating Island) was a close second. 🙂
*thought
Meh…the Greeks would have viosited Dreamland in their sleep as kids, too. 🙂 I’m sure that everyone worked together to pick a name that was pretty.
Congrats on 1500 Scott! 🙂
I’m really looking forward to seeing Seraphopolis now. I mean, I was before, but now that I know it is populated by humans…I’m interested to see how that culture developed over the years separate from the rest of Earth.
One can only hope, good sir. One can only hope.
Scott, this is all quite interesting, but one critique: the Seraphopolis carving doesn’t match the rest of the carving, stylistically. It looks like some kid’s graffiti carving on a park bench somewhere, especially when contrasted with the clean, stylized carvings of the rest of the pillar. I’m not sure why you chose to do this, but I don’t think it was successful.
As for the comments about Angel City, I don’t know the reference, but I believe that’s what Seraphopolis means. Seraph like seraphim,and opolis = city. Maybe there was a Egyptian name, but the common name changed over time, like Byzantium / Constantinople / Istanbul.
You have made a very good point there!!
I live near a place called Angel Island. It’s just off San Fran and Berkeley…. so my first thought when you said Angel island was, ” sweet, I can see dreamland from my house!”
Happy 1500th!!!
It does look like it was carved by someone else, and likely a child, but I think that may be intentional. I doubt these pillars have always been hidden under water, and the original artist would have already been exiled to the island before it was visible to carve a representation of. It seems reasonable that a child visitor would decide to finish it.
Or else they changed it after the first few hundred years. Thebes got a Greek name, Memphis was a Greek corruption, and how many people remember Byblos was first called Gebal or Gubla/Kubna?
1500! WOOT! Wa-hoo!! Callou Callay!
Did nobody else notice that the fourth panel bears evidence that something should be to the right of Seraphopolis but isn’t?
Looks fine to me. Just what I’d expect from last minute notes when leaving in a hurry.
Names, however, only changed when a place was captured by people from another culture. You don’t see lots of renaming unless that happens, and even when you do, the new names aren’t normally picked from a foreign language.
I don’t normally vote on the weekends since there’s no update to draw me here, but this weekend I made a point to do so. Sorry it wasn’t enough.
You see a fourth panel? Darn it! I can only see three! As for “something to the right of Seraphopolis”, I think that’s just the basic ravages of time. It’s probably just more clouds, if anything, that have been obscured.
I just found this – the style may initially be jarring for some but the work you’ve put it and the story is INCREDIBLE. Thank you, thank you so much.
Also congratulations on reaching 1500!
nick being nice to humans? lol that’s a new one, guess he was not a bad guy all the time.
Remember that for many, many years prior to Arthur coming into Dreamland and eventually seeking a way to unite the worlds that Nicodemus was a counselor to human kings going back – apparently – several centuries if not much longer.
THIS situation, however, serves to put a lot of ol’ dragon-butt’s (may he rest in peace and may algae grow on his… nevermind) adamant objections into perspective.
The worlds HAD been united, and he didn’t want to see the same thing happen again. The truth of that incident was likely buried by common agreement and the people of the newly named Seraphopolis moved to live together in harmony with the denizens of Dreamland and of the Nightmare Realm. Nicodemus felt he had to take more drastic measures because he’d seen efforts like that go wrong before.
I -kinda- feel sorry for the Nicodemus-of-Then. The Nicodemus-of-Now is totally a butt.
Congratulations on 1500 comics. =)
Doh! Even if they find it no one there has even heard of the english language. 😉
Hey all…
My new computer has rendered it’s panel…but the old computers are still chugging away.
I spent half of the day getting the network rendering to work.
So please forgive me if the page is up in the morning…rather than the usual midnight.
Still waiting for computer number 2 to arrive.
Well, technically “seraph” is Hebrew.
Speaking of being mistaken for gods, Stark Trek: TNG’s “Who Watches the Watchers”, where the “Prime Directive” is equivalent to the isolation that is imposed upon Seraphopolitans and Picard being mistaken for a god from on high by the Mintakans is similar to what Alex et. al can face when they reach the city.
Also, Congrats on 1500 pages, Scott. On to 2000!
We can always re-spec the old comps. Up the memory, swap out a CPU. I turned my dad’s laptop from a brick to something that he uses daily. Still gets pissed when his Android phone gets knocked off the WiFi because Mom’s iPhone/iPad seemingly takes precedence.
So should Alex and company try to make contact with Seraphopolis?
Point taken. Yet, it only makes things even more complicated.
Concrats on 1500 pages!
Now we know why Nic is so adamantly opposed to portals between the waking world and Dreamland. I have to wonder though if he ever explained this incident to Arthur, or if he did so and Arthur just blew him off. *tsk* Humans, they just never learn. 😉
Or congrats, if you prefer. =)
Not when you remember that the Hebrew people lived in Egypt for a while. 🙂
Silly question…if the city of Seraphopolis was founded by stranded Egyptians, why does it have a greek name? (Yes, I know — we probably wouldn’t understand the name in the language of ancient Egypt, but….)
Oops — someone already asked a similar question. My apologies!
Granted, both Hebrew and Greek slaves could come with the embassy, but why name the place in their languages? Just to annoy the Egyptian nobles?
You’re right. There are only three panels. I meant “last”. My bad.
However, I don’t think the missing image is basic ravage over time. If it were, more stuff would be missing from the obelisk. No, it’s obviously foul play.