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Well…another week gone. Can you believe we’re already 25 pages into the new chapter?
Wow.
I can’t tell you how thrilled I am at the hundreds and hundreds of comments this week. You guys are just so incredible.
I read each and every one. I try my best to post as many personal replies as possible. But it’d be impossible for me to.
I love reading everyone’s thoughts. I love seeing you all interact with one another and discuss the story.
I wish I could “dump” it all on you now. I really do. But while I have it written out…I just don’t have the next 1000 pages or so done.
So thanks for your patience and thanks for reading along as I make ’em.
Here’s today’s vote incentive.
It’s actually a page I found from Karen when I hired her to do storyboards for a failed “movie trailer” I was going to animate.
This was a page of thumbnails for a section of it all.
I think it would have been really cool. But life got in the way.
Oh well. I hope you enjoy it.
And I hope you have a wonderful weekend!
See you on Monday!
Scott
Hey you! Don’t wake up!
…
Like THAT’s going to work…
Good one, Scott!
Yeah, he’s totally worried that she’s being left behind with nothing but a ranged weapon… in the presence of a furious dragon.
“Meddle not in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy, and taste good with ketchup.”
Oh, yeah, like he’s really going to answer you. Because everyone listens to the guy who just blew them into the next spectrum of pain.
I think this is the first time in history that Nic’s ever wanted someone to STAY. First time for everything, eh?
Love the dialogue! Very, very gripping
…what EXACTLY are we seeing through Alex’s left arm/shoulder?
I think it’s a semi reflection of what’s in front of him there. Harder to make out with it fading away though.
And that would be Alex going “Run you silly elf, why are you staring at me fading away! You got a freaking dragon next to you!”
Ooh, I do hope we see what happens in both worlds next week, cause Alex is probably going to be extremely mad that he woke up, and of course Nic is rather put out with Alex and the sword, leaving everyone else in some major danger.
On another note, I love the comic Scott, Thanks for sharing it with us!
“Dan! I got lots of stuff to tell you later but now’s a really bad time! I need you to knock me out cold with a hammer or something!”
Shoulder in panel 2 is a shadow cast by one of the rocks or trees behind him by the fire out in the canyon I think. It extends up onto his head so I don’t think it is a reflection. Panel 3 looks like a reflection of the village.
Cliffhangers frustrate me. I love the comic don’t get me wrong, but really? This just isn’t fair…
Yeah, I was looking at the last panel when I made that comment, panel 2 looks much more transparent for whatever reason, probably because panel 3 has less things behind him to see on the other side.
Yeah, but like Scott has said on many an occasion- because the story is meant to flow straight from one page to the next, everyday is a mini-cliffhanger. It just seems like Fridays are the major cliffhangers for us because we have to wait the whole weekend, as opposed to tomorrow. I mean, I don’t know about you, but watching Alex fall to his possible doom on Monday with armor all a fire? I was very much anticipating what was going to happen on Tuesday. It just seems worse on Fridays due to the wait, is all.
Uh guys, perhaps you haven’t noticed, but Nic is holding the sword. You know the thing Alexander uses as his link to Dreamland. How is he suppose to get back if he wakes up now?
The sword is fading away with Alex. He’ll have it, no problem.
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/2006/10/09/todays-dreamland-chronicles-237/
The way this storyline’s been going, it would have been a cliffhanger pretty much any day that the Friday landed on.
I personally love the suspense ^_^ and woah that’s so cool with his brother! I just hope Nastajia won’t get smitten with him instead of Alex once he’s finally able to dream again… But that’s thinking rather far ahead.
so he lost the sword again and left his friends alone against a dragon? bad bad stuff
I am wondering if Nic will do the typical villain thing and try to capture Alex’s friends and hold them hostage, or if he will be a little more original.
Over the course of the series, Nic has been one of those villains you can’t quite place. On one hand he does typical things and then in the next he does something unexpected. I am glad though that we are finally getting to a point where Nic might be fleshed out a bit – there is a fine line between a very empty character and one that we just have not got to the details on yet. In a webcomic, it makes it worse, because instead of hours reading to that point, it’s years.
Or simply “Run you fools”
Or simply “Run, fools”
Sorry for doubleposting, browser problems.
LOL @ alex’ priorities. 😀
and I love how petulant nic’s sounding right now. 😉
I love this chapter 🙂
There’s a desperation in Alex’s last cry that makes me believe he really is thinking of his friends, not just himself.
EEK! man, it would be sooo cool if alex had some unrealized, kingly power that would allow him to cross-over dreamlanders in emergencys…
Is it only me or does his left hand look a bit more solid in the last panel than before?
Very cool way to leave off and yet I want to know what happens next right now. So the sword is no longer in Nick’s hand and Alex is waking up, the left hand is more solid than before like Cemalidor mentioned. And why the heck is everyone just standing there, run people!
To make it even more fun, considering where Alex is, this is almost a literal cliff hanger. Considering what it must have been like when he got hit by Nic’s flame, it’s a wonder he didn’t wake up sooner.
omw!!!! i just almost spat out my candy…. lololololoololololololol
You know I could imagine Alex looking at Nicodemus and giving him the finger as he logged out…I mean woke up.
Hmmm…and Nick is still holding that sword?
Nicole: “How did you get first and second degree burns IN BED?!”
Dan: “Forget that, how did Nicodemus follow you OUT of Dreamland?!”
Alex: “Well he was holding the sword and…”
Nicodemus: “CURSE YOU, HUMAN! I WILL DEVOUR YOUR RACE!” *crunch* “Hey…not bad…I guess he was right, they DO taste good with ketchup!”
Yeah, like maybe roast them all on a spit for Alex to come back to when he sleeps again. Then he could eat them in one big bite right in front of Alex.
Haha…talk about a cliff hanger…
Alex is actually hanging off a cliff.
Well done Scott. (i still don’t believe your cliff hangers are on accident 🙂 )
Okay, I thought what we were seeing through panel 2 was Nic’s hand/claw and the shadow of his arm on the wing. The detail is absolutely amazing. Not only are all the reflective properties of the armor still there but with the added transparency and the background image. See, this is why I love this comic.
“Last one to the other side of Dreamland is dragon lunch! Err, dinner.”
That would be interesting, like he was willing himself to stay asleep in order to stay, but I think it’s just more solid looking because the night sky is so black behind him.
I think it is just because there is nothing behind part of him to shine through his body while it is transparent. There may not be another way to make him fade against a black background.
I forget who is older.. I take it with this weeks action, that Dan is older than Alex and that is the reason he can not get into dreamland, being the older and such! or, did I miss this in yesterdays discussions? Sorry was on travel, playing catchup today!!
Morning all!
Yeah, me too.
Considering how we can easily still make him out, he’ll probably still be there on Monday to finish what he wants to say, so it’s not a very bad cliffhanger, and hopefully he can get Nastajia and friends to safety before he completely wakes up, or perhaps spend a page or two in the real world and then fall back asleep.
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/2008/12/22/page-799/
P.S. EPIC page, pure EPIC! What a way to wipe the smug grin off Nick’s face but at the same time put Nastajia in extreme danger.
Another sick thought there of me…..
Orion was doing some communication with Alexs brother Dan. What if they are just stalling Nick while some other preparations are under way?
Yeah, doing some ‘WILD’ guesses here. ^^;;
Morning Scott!!!
Ok, my “guess” is it will be some time before we see what happens(ed) to Nastiajia and the gang. Alex is waking up, and he will have his interactions with his brother and Nicole. So, everyone is going to keep their fingernails trimmed back while we all wait to find out what happened while Alex is gone from Dreamland!
Poor Nic. Almost feel sorry for him, his plans are unraveling before his eyes.
lol, `don`t you dare wake up human` like Alex`s doing it just to annoy him. 😀
Haven`t commented yet but oh boy!! What a chapter! I really can`t see which way this is going. Love Alex` response…Nastajia should run away, in…like…now.
I wonder what Nicole will have to say about all this, esp. at Dan apparently being king, lol. Still confused about the whole king-thing and who is being first and next and all that stuff but I`m just going to sit back and watch how it all unfolds, awesome work mr. Sava, awesome work indeed!!
Great page as always — and the vote incentive is really cute! I especially love the lil’ Rubenesque Kiwi on the lower right.
How about a movie reference. “FLY YOU FOOLS!”
I wouldnt be able to fall back asleep, id be to ramped up after everything. What about a sleeping pill or something? Or would that put him so asleep he wouldnt be able to go back? Question: kids have alot of powers in Dreamland and Alex is relearning them, do kids have the power to create things to appear in dreamland?
hehe, I actually didn’t even realize you were double posting, because they were slightly different =P
I thought you were gonna go from
“Run you silly elf, why are you staring at me fading away! You got a freaking dragon next to you!”
to
“Run you fools”
to
“Run, fools”
to
just “Run”
or “fools” XD
Which makes a lot more sense for characters who really can fly.
question! Can they fly when Alex is not there?
Except they CAN fly lol
Kiwi and Nicodemus…because they have wings.
Otherwise…no.
Nicole is going to be ticked that Alex doesn’t have Felicity’s answer…
*can’t stop laughing* Of course, that brings up the question – sleep and unconsciousness are two different things, does he go to dreamland if he’s knocked unconscious?
On the other hand, just imagine the damage a stone giant could cause in a city…without even trying…
You evil evil people, making me laugh when I should be studying for my calculus exam…
LOL! I was wondering about Nic following them out since he was holding the sword… and I just get a chuckle every time I hear that “crunchy and good with Ketchup quote.”
I think that Alex’s going to Dreamland is tied to REM sleep (if someone posts a link either confirming or correcting me via an earlier page, that’d be appreciated), and in many people a side effect of products like Nyquil or other sleep aid medicines is that they are unable to enter REM sleep. For other people, it intensifies REM sleep. So, hopefully Alex is one of those people that it doesn’t hinder his ability to enter REM sleep….
Good morning Scott! A great way to start a Friday (well, aside from the cliff hanger…. literally it looks like).
Wasn’t it established that injuries sustained in Dreamland carried over into the real world? I vaguely remember Alex waking up to find a minor wound from Dreamland still with him.
Assuming that’s the case, I’m wondering what damage he will carry from that blast (despite the armor) and how Nicole & Dan will react. Should be interesting.
Peace,
Fr. Maurer
Good morning! Great comic today!
Hmmmm… I wonder if Alex’s last word before he wakes up, “Nastajia” will make Nic think she has information on Daniel. Will that one action by Alex be what keeps her alive?
Good one, Scott! Can’t wait to see the next page!
Nicodemus looked up as a howling filled the air above him. A snort of contempt and a puff of fire escaped his nostrils as he saw the crude devices. Their wings were straight and fixed rather than sleek like his and they were tiny compared with his might. Worse still the few flames they seemed to have were coming from two pods mounted at the rear of their bodies rather than being able to be directed forward. One of the strange things dipped a wing and came down towards him and Nicodemus opened his mouth to roar flame at it…a strange twinking came from the things nose and a humming and suddenly all Nicodemus could feel was pain.
Or to put it this way… sword give Nicodemus a scar so… 😛
Poop, there was supposed to be a link in there.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GAU-8_meets_VW_Type_1.jpg
I hear that “Nastajia” as sounding like Sylvester Stallone at the end of Rocky.
The whole plan devised by Nicodemus relied upon the fact that the law states that while one king of Dreamland is alive, the next generation’s king (specified within the law as the first born in the family where the king would come from, from what I gather) cannot enter Dreamland. Therefore, Nicodemus somehow managed to snatch away the last king of Dreamland, Arthur Pendragon, and put him away somewhere in such a way as he cannot die (or has not died, whichever). This should, normally, prevent the next king from entering Dreamland, and it has, insofar as Dan, being the first born of twins, has never managed to dream his way into Dreamland.
Alex, however, being the second born (by 5 minutes), was never prevented from entering Dreamland.. Furthermore, he being from the same family as the intended king, he was able to retrieve the sword and wield it. It is unsure at this tiime whether Dan had to renounce his throne, via communication with Orion or not, but still, the sword now recognizes Alex, the second born, as king of Dreamland, since Dan could not fulfil his role so far, and succession rights placed the title upon Alex.
There are many details which still need to be answered, such as whether now that Alex is officially considered King by the sword, that will remove Dan’s inability to enter Dreamland, seeing as he would not be the firstborn of the “next” generation’s king, but the firstborn of the “current” generation’s king; whether Alex can even abdicate in favor of Dan, if Dan does manage to make it over; whether whoever remains king will lead a double life, or spend most of his time in Dreamland, etc.
Time, and Scott, will tell… 😀
Alex? Why is there a figurine of a dragon, next to the sword on your necklace?
In panel 2, it appears that the shadowy form seen through Alex’s shoulder is supposed to be Nic’s right arm, however that form is offset to the left from where it is supposed to be. This isn’t a refraction issue, as the wing is where it is supposed to be. In panel 3, there does not appear to be any shadows being cast on Alex from anything like a tree.
Scott, is this an error to be fixed or am I missing something?
Well… considering the relative size of the sword in the real world versus Dreamland…
Now we know where dragonflies come from. 😉
But… Alex doesn’t enter REM sleep. Instead, at the time he would normally enter REM sleep, he seems to go brain dead (according to Nicole’s instruments that were hooked to his noggin).
xD I think you’re the only one who thought about that for when Alex wakes up lol
Also everyone love the quotes had me laughing 😀 had to stop eating lunch for a moment there
Darn, everyone else said everything I was gonna say. So just scroll back up and pick out the best comments and imagine I posted them first.
Thanks!
Maybe you’re confusing it with The Matrix. Or maybe it did happen, and Scott got it from The Matrix. I think the latter more likely.
Darn right.
I dunno, I was thinking more along the lines of “STELLAAAAAAA!”
Thank you!
You’re right. Injuries will carry over.
Doesn’t seem he sustained anything from this, though. Just knocked about a bit.
Armor took the brunt of it.
I think you’ve nailed it. At least that’s how I see it as well. Arthur is somewhere, but the sword by some means we’ll understand eventually has passed on to the next family, which is Dan & Alex. I really want to see when/how Dan gets to visit now that he’s not in line for the throne. (we knew Dan had to get to visit eventually).
Very very good week! (I’m a little bummed Alex got taken down so easily, use the shield next time)
Thank you so much for an amazing week in Dreamland, Scott! I love how the storyline is unfolding!
WTF?! is this thing for real?!
LOL. that would make an interesting plot twist. XD
Hey, are wethe ones making you read these comments?
Haven’t read the the rest of the comments, so apologies if it’s already been said. Nic’s arm extends down to Alex’s left armpit, the shadow of his arm on his wing is what you can see from Alex’s head to his left elbow.
Yay! I finally got an answer why Alex’s brother can’t get into dreamland! Not that I was really expecting one. It’s just really awesome to have one. It really ties things together nicely. Way to go! This week has been the best week ever!
Now he has to suffer the entire day wondering if he will be in time to save them.
Only by making them addicting, I suppose.
LOL… “Don’t you dare wake up…”
That’s like telling someone “Whatever you do, DON’T think of elephants!!”.
heh, someone else hates alex waking up besides tasj XD
Nick telling Alex he dare not wake up is trying to stop a locomotive by standing on the tracks in front of it… Unless your Superdude or Wonder Gal it ain’t gonna happen… but then Nick is use to getting his way 99% of the time…. I guess he is learning what disapointment feels like?? Great Job as usuall Scott… You know I am starting to hate weekends!!! Scott takes a break and no new panels until Monday…
Scott, I wanted to tell you there is a comic JUST like Dreamland Chronicles. It’s called The Dreamer and I saw the Dreamland Chronicles ad on the side of the page. It’s about war,romance,adventure and its by Lora Innings. Do you know her?!
Yep. This is the plane I was describing…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-10_Thunderbolt_II
i’ve been waiting chapters and chapters until Dan finaly took the sword necklace before going to sleep. it seems like the story is finaly getting ready for it 🙂
That’s my point. Gandalf’s friends couldn’t.
So, would something that inhibits a person from entering REM sleep keep Alex from going brain dead instead of the normal REM sleep? I’m thinking so, personally.
Her banner is sometimes on the side bar, also.
Hey Sophia.
Yes. I’ve become friends with Lora. She’s done fan art for Dreamland. And we did the charity desktop together.
The Dreamer is also published by IDW as well. I’d highly recommend it.
Lora is a wonderful person.
It’s fun seeing another dream-inspired story.
Dang it! Now you just took my last idea …
😉
Yep. Lora has posted in the comments here before. She has a pretty cool Gravatar, as I recall …
🙂
I love all the revelations this week! Very nice, Scott.
And don’t forget, folks: you can vote on Saturday and Sunday, too! Scott may take the weekends off (deservedly so), but TWC doesn’t, and a few seconds out of our weekends to vote isn’t too much to ask …
This is so exciting!
I’m a long-time reader who hasn’t commented yet, but I have to say, things are really picking up.
Sometimes I have nightmares in which I know I’m dreaming, but I can’t wake up. Those are the worst. I kind of think that’d come in handy for Alex here though!
Mr. Sava, you and the cliffhangers. You’re breaking a girl’s heart, you know that? 😛
Incredible, beautiful, and riveting! I can’t wait till Monday!
Mille grazie for all your hard-work. 🙂
AWG!!!
He hit that rock hard! If he dies, what happens to his dream body?
is he dying?
okay then, I’ll just have to say the obvious and be a mule. Gandalf’s use of “Fly” in his words most likely meant “RUN AWAY” but it scares me that our hero is disappearing with his party next to the dragon
And now I wonder if elves taste good in either Soy or Sweet and Sour sauce
Great, let’s see. I want to start with telling you that you’ve got yourself a new reader. Second. Damn. I read your comic in two days, I love it. Third… I’ve got no third point. I’m looking forward to next page!
XD
Actually I was thinking of Gandalf after he has thrown the Balrog into the abyss. ;P
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Dan will use it for the battlemats on rpgs…
Hey wasn’t Alex the first born by a few minutes?
i thought Alex tease Dan about being older in the first chapter and Dan said “Omly by a few minutes!”