Page 1005…
Woo! Only 995 pages left until page 2000!
Yay!
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Silly how milestones motivate you…isn’t it?
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A month ago…I did a special Livestream for a classroom in Canada.
I had a lot of fun doing this.
I was wondering if anyone had ideas of how to reach out to other teachers and schools who’d like to schedule sessions like this with me?
It’s free. I wouldn’t charge of course.
If you guys know of how to do this…I’d appreciate it.
Thanks all!
Scott
Man, Nicole can sure cross a room in a flash.
Is it just me, or does Alex’s expression look weird in panels 1 and 2? Love Nicole’s though…
Wonderful page, and 20 points for using Pandora in your livestream, which is great. Really cool to see you work. (Yes… I did stay up JUST to see the next page.)
Also, first? ;D
Dang, not first.
Only 995 pages to go! WooHoo! You’re almost there! ^.^
Keep up the awesome job Scott! π
I’d expect Alex to look a bit shocked, instead he looks more smug.
Scott, you weren’t planning to stop until you got to 10,000 pages, right?
See there? You’re fan’s expectations can keep you going forever!
Thanks for the livestream post. Interesting and cool stuff.
I interpreted his expression as slightly amused, as in “you’re taking this seriously all of a sudden, aren’t you?”
Is it possible for Nicole to go back to Dreamland? Wouldn’t that be the best way to satisfy all of her concerns?
Someone lost it.
Someone is under a lot of stress.
I foresee a really nice rant coming from Alex soon. (And also him geting smacked down by Nastajia, right before going tender on him)
She’s dominant just like Nastalia, and he likes being dominated by women… coincidental? π
Go isn’t a complete sentence. It is not even a clause on it’s own. We take it as such, because everyone says it.
Heheh..”someone is quite agitated” Nicole goes “Nicodemus”..ehh…hmmm [scratches chin]…..nΓ’h..too far-out..
I guess it is quite normal if someone has re-discovered something very important in their lives, they thought they lost, and “The other party” acts like an uninterested dork…
To me Nicole is more sensitive than she allows herself to be. It’s endearing, despite the somewhat desperate outburst.
At first I wasn’t too convinced of Nicole’s character being anything but “The Critical one”, but that is changing fast. She has more depth than either Dan or Alex give her credit for, though Dan is getting there.
girls.are. scary. and I say that, fully knowing I’m a girl too… they are scary even to me. π
poor alex (I’m saying that a lot, lately π ). I hope they won’t discuss guys in their conversations. alex deserves to be hassled once in a while, but not even he would deserve such a topic. they’d scar him for life. LOL
how many years did it take to reach page 1000? π
where are the pills for longevity? π
let’s see how long it’ll take to finish the story. π
or maybe he attempts to placate her by smiling? don’t think it’ll work though. not on nicole… π
Whoa, she’s scary! She might be overreacting just a wee tiny bit.
I work for a public school in Ohio as a network admin. We have a listserv that in includes most of the schools in the state. I can pass this around and see if anyone bites.
I know my kids would be thrilled to experience livestream with you. I’ll have to check to see if the site is blocked or not, but as obsessed as they have been with your books, that would be amazing for them.
I think they fell in the “wild and pointless plants” vat… If not then they are in the “suicidally dangerous to annoy animals” enclosure… Either way, I am not getting them.
Yes. Dan is Nicole’s boyfriend. Alex is with Nastajia (who has been a softy lately). I think you missed that plot line… Either way, I doubt that Alex sees Nicole that way at this point, after all he did finally confess to Nastajia. And he learned to fly because of her. And I could keep listing.
Scott, as far as interacting with college students, Savannah College of Art and Design (aka SCAD) would be a good opportunity. Anyone here attend there that could give Scott more knowledge on how to interact with the professors to get something like this going?
Wonderful. Please do. Thank you.
Great. I hope we can do it.
I was contacted about a year ago by someone from SCAD to come speak there. But I’ve lost the email. I’d love to do something with them. If anyone knows someone there.
Hey Scott. I’ve been enjoying this for the past year. I can’t wait until my daughter is old enough to join me. Just a note – This page and the last panel seem really bright, like you suddenly turned on a spot light. Is there a desk lamp I’m not seeing?
No, but you have the same icon as the one who is first.
LOL! Somehow I see Felcity doing the same, making sure he memorizes *everything.* Poor Alex. The only pacifist in his group is a male rock giant. Keep your armor in tact, Alex, before the constant bum kicking leaves a mark. We must preserve that cute bum of yours.
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Lol! Now Nicole, one can get more flys with honey than with vinegar… :-/
(Course in Alex’s case, maybe a little bullying might be in order…) :-7
Indeed, and I do think that Alex’s smug face does not improve Nicole’s disposition. He might remember well that she’s the one that is giving him grades “the easy way” . Alex tends to forget he is still a bit of a test-subject for Nicole…
..eeh..ooh dear.. I think I am developing a crush on Nicole..Always had a weakness for dominant women..heheh :LOL:
Loove the sudden dramatic lighting when Nicole goes “you got me?”
I like how the first panel of the previous comic has Dan holding her hand. I don’t like Nicole being nasty to Alex π he’s been pushed off a cliff and trying to learn a lot of stuff to become King of Dreamland and Nicodemus :p give ‘im a break!
Alex should be frowning in the second panel. It would make the situation a bit more serious.
I’m curious as to when Nichole will return to dreamland. She now believes again – so why hasn’t she traveled? Also is Alexander really so clueless as to not understand Nichole’s feelings in regards to Felicity? The question comes up because he has been training and learning during these montages – and playing delivery man and in the end is still a duh…?
I bet my teacher at the career center I went to during high school — he teaches 2D internet publishing animation and 3D movie/video animation (i.e. Flash and Maya) — would be interested. I think I tried to show him this site once….idk. If i could get into contact with him again, he’d probably be interested like I said. Idk for sure though.
Well isn’t she grateful he’s letting her talk to her long lost friend. If I was in her place I’d think twice before giving threats to the future king of Dreamland. π
I don’t know–It looked like a really
nervous smile to me as he’s transfixed, wondering if that finger is loaded. It’s certainly ready to go off any moment now… πI donβt knowβIt looked like a really nervous smile to me as heβs transfixed, wondering if that finger is loaded. Itβs certainly ready to go off any moment nowβ¦ π
It’ll go faster if he gets a movie made–then he can count every frame, right? 24 per second…it adds up fast, about 173,000 frames in two hours.
After all that Nicole, I think Alex finally got it…barely :).
Hmmmmm…….
Obviously I set the goal to low.
One googleplex pages, Scott! Your fans will settle for nothing less!!!
I think Alex’s slightly shocked response is appropriate (and seeing as how I get a weird grin when I’m off-balanced, I can understand Alex’s facial expressions in the first two panels). I think Nicole is the one who is missing the point.
Alex had found a way to not only bring Felicity back to health, but to re-establish the relationship that Felicity and Nicole once shared. However, the main objective for Alex is to help free Dreamland from the tyranny of Nicodemus, not to be Nicole’s messenger boy. Nicole has no place to demand that Alex spend the upcoming time in Dreamland as her ambassador; Alex had already agreed to let Nicole know what Felicity’s response was, she doesn’t need to threaten him.
Here’s the webpage to their animation department. Do any of these names ring a bell?
http://www.scad.edu/animation/faculty.cfm
If not, the department e-mail is on the page.
Older kids and adults can’t go to Dreamland. Alex is the exception because of his sword necklace. And we don’t even know if the necklace would work for anyone else.
I’m guessing from the age of the other humans we’ve seen there that the “shut out” age is sometime before puberty.
You, sir, are thinking logically. Therefore you have revealed yourself to be a man and therefore understands nothing about how women think.
In response to your carefully thought-out argument, the earlier words of Nicole are perfectly appropriate: “So?”
lol. i love the way alex is looking at her finger, looks like he wants to bite it off.
dear lord you people like to pick on Alex I mean yeah he might not be the brightest bulb but hes seems smarter then the way alot of you think of him
What I like is any attempts Nicole had to get physical are completely ineffective. She’s yanking on that shirt, and Alex isn’t budging an inch. It amuses me.
Cross eyed Alex avatar any one? Limited time offer on it, get its while its still hot! π Sorry, I couldn’t resist the pun today.
There is another logical person out there? YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
Sorry, can’t help the random out bursts today… Any way, I have to agree with the fact that Alex kind of has more important stuff to deal with than being the shot messenger for Nicole and Felicity (if you get the reference to the old wise saying, get out of my head now). Otherwise I think Nicole is just trying to impress on Alex her desire to have every little detail of Felicity’s reaction, down to the whisker twitches. If not then Nicole has lost it and I expect Dan to follow her. Eventually (coming from a guy who is insane, thats pretty much an ironclad guarantee for you, especially seeing as I am with some one who is at least equally insane). That being said, “Normal people are weird.”
Agreed. From what I can tell (if I am wrong, then so be it), its some where around 10 years old on average. Now that could have a gaping hole in the Nightmare realm… I am not holding much out on that though. My real dreams and nightmares are weird enough as it is, don’t need to know what they could be about instead of some of the stuff I see in the nightmares (see ridiculously vague predictions, almost real dreams, and prophets for reasons).
I almost completely forgot about that actually. Thank you for reminding me. But after all that has happened… I give it an even chance of Nicole failing him or just getting mad at him if he doesn’t. It will be interesting to see what happens.
Googoloplex or we go angry mob? Tempting… Think Scott can live that long, considering current medical technology? Until nanobots are used medically and cheapily, I don’t hold much hope on more than 90,000-500,000 pages before we would have to completely clone him… Maybe Donna could help out with that? Hmm… Curse you JakesDad… You got me thinking of ways to stretch out some one I don’t physically know beyond being an apparently great guy’s life span indefinetly. I am going to be thinking up impossible ideas for hours at least.
The miracles of a still medium. They never cease. π
> And we donβt even know if the necklace would work for anyone else.
Actually, Scott has previously confirmed that the sword necklace only works for Alex.
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Ack, I’m a little late with this, but here it is anyway:
http://topwebcomics.com/vote/4274/default.aspx
Don’t forget to vote!
I wonder how much work was involved getting the cloth physics to work in this scene? I’m pretty sure Scott’s never put a curled hand underneath a stiff color and then had to morph the fabric to make it all work. Actually, from the bottom of Alex’s shirt, you can see that the bottom of the shirt did not move up a few inches, so I suspect Scott took some shortcuts rather than accurately morph an entire shirt-ful of fabric.
Maybe it’s really stretchy fabric …
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A googleplex, eh? That would literally KILL anyone reading the archives all the way through… Not unless people’s lives are extended… by a lot.
Can’t put them in stasis- can’t read or create comic then.
Doubtful that we’re going to start having body-sustaining nanobots within any of our lifetimes…
My answer is thus: MAGIC.
See, it explains everything. Get the magic, become immortal, create the comics, and pass on your secret in the news post here to teach us to do the same to read your comic. [only problem there is… The eternal wars humans would have. Attrition would have no meaning: the same soldiers would be recyclable.]
Alex looks like a freakin balloon! WHY? <3 the comic <3 the mile stone! i started at like page 102 though…. i FINALY read the first hundred pages or so…. <3 them! π
HAPPY (early) THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!
Um, no, I am not a man. Thank-you for the compliment though π
Livestream works fine here at school! Is there a time that would work best for you to do it? The only chunks of time that wouldn’t work for us would be (ET) 11:15 – 11:45 or 12:45 – 1:35. Other than that, we’re pretty open. School gets out for us about 2:45 and starts about 8:30.
Why’d you cross of an identical comment just to re-post it…?
Nicole: “You got me? Now pull my finger.”