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Hi all. Sorry. You know I couldn’t let Dan get to kiss Nicole THAT fast…didn’t you?
But it’ll happen. I promise. These things take time. Just a couple chapters ago they hated eachother.
🙂
Here’s a new vote incentive.
I thought I’d show some of the process of how we come up with the LOOK of Dreamland.
Stefano was designing Astoria’s main castle with more of a Mediterannean feel. I was thinking more medieval. But…BIGGER. MUCH BIGGER.
So you can see my notes over his initial design on the left (complete with falling Alexander sketch). And the final outcome on the right.
Hope you enjoy. And thanks for reading.
Scott
*laugh* Nice voice from above.
Dan, this is your conscience speaking!
Really?
No, not really! I’m up here!
Hahaha! Nice one, Scott. The expressions are priceless!
Don’t strain your neck, Dan.
Looking at the voting incentive, it occurs to me that it’s a wonder Alex and Felicity didn’t end up smashing against the walls on the way down, long before Alex had time to wake up and devise a strategy for not dying from the fall…
I mean, that’s quite the horizontal difference, between the top tower and the base of the wall at the bottom… They would have had to leap out quite a distance, rather than straight down… Not that I’m criticizing, or anything, just saying they were lucky not to have touched wall before he was ready with his sword…
On a completely different note…
How do you pronounce Nastajia’s name?
Nah-stay-j-ya? Nah-stah-j-ya? Nah-stah-gee-ah? Emphasis on any particular syllable?
Enquiring minds want to know… 😛
I friggin’ LOVE the vote incentive today! 😀
Cool buildings! Detail all the way down to the drainage pipe.
Only thing that would make them even better would be some ivy on the sides.
I like the vote incentive! What they say is true, by the way: “Everything is better with flying buttresses.” 🙂
Ahaha! Their faces were priceless!
oh man! that was so funny!!
Remember – Alex and those with him can fly in Dreamland – even if he didn’t remember how – his sub-conscious presumably did and was able to manipulate his fall – particularly considering /he/ probably doesn’t know the actual physics of a fall.
lmao, I think that’s just become my new favourite page of the Chronicles! Happens to me all the time. Where the crap is that voice coming from?!?!?!
Writers can be so cruel to their characters LOL
Eh. Nothing to see here. Move along. Dan needs to be alone with Alex to murder him in peace.
I think vote incentive is working now, isn’t it? The problem was just a misplacement issue. 🙂
Dan: “Oh for the love of…PUT ON SOME PANTS!”
> But it’ll happen. I promise.
Ohhh, oohhh, OOOOHH!! Will there be tongue!!? 🙂
(j/k PG-13, I know)
Well that was plain bad luck on Dan’s part, going so close to their building. I hope Dan didn’t play baseball as a kid, especially pitcher, and throw a rock at Alex’s head and he wakes up in Dreamland. He wouldn’t be any good to Nastajia if he came back dizzy and disoriented.
I think of it as “nus-TAHJ-yuh.”
Also, I’m less concerned about the wall’s impact and more concerned about the time inconsistency. After Alex had his last childhood dream, eight years elapsed in both worlds. When Alex awoke mid-fall, shouldn’t Felicity have continued falling without him? Instead, his next dream picked up right where he left off.
I pronounce it Nuh-Staj-ya
the “staj” part would sound like “Taj” in Taj Mahal.
Or podge. Or dodge.
Actually, it’s already been established that there is no actual, established relationship between time spent in or away from Dreamland. And in that instance, the time lapse was probably a fraction of a second, or something to that effect, so that Felicity went from being level with Alex to being a foot or two below him when he returned.
Thank you. As it happens, I was pretty much pronouncing it that way already, but being French Canadian, it occured to me that it might not be the intended pronounciation, so I figured I’d check.
Love your comic!
Dan looks angry.
Not angry. Not yet, at least.
Like the page, love the incentive. The Mediterranean look is awesome, Scott. Too bad it couldn’t work.
Man blocked by your own brother. That’s just cold, cold cold cold.
I enjoyed chatting on the livestream last night. It’s always fun peeking behind the curtain to watch the wizard work! 🙂 🙂
Nice! I did not expect a shout from the window!
How come Alex’s windows swings open while the other windows are the sliding type 😛
Loving the night scene, I must say!
Frame 1: You are sure nobody’s Watching us?
Frame 2: As I told you, it would be absolutely, totally, and in all other ways inconceivable. No one in school knows about us, and Alex couldn’t have gotten here so fast.
Frame 3: Out of curiosity, why do you ask?
Frame 4: Because there he is waving at us
Wow, interrupting from far away in a window, that’s a new one. I love how there all looking around, wondering where the voice is coming from :D.
GAAAAHHH!!! Name fail!
typo. no space
Nicole looks positively disappointed in that 3rd frame… Awww…
eeeek [trying to shake away nasty, moist-laden japanese comics…]
Hm. Good point.
Thanks for the catch.
ohmigosh i’ve caught up. I’m going to miss being able to from one to the other without waiting. but the wait will be soooo worth it.
why do I get a sense that Dan is not going to be a happy camper? Alex and his timing could use a bit of adjustment lol… Well I have a feeling that Scott will be more than happy to show us how Dan deals with his ill timed brother…
You’re getting too good at this, Scott. First, we miss out forever and a day because Alex keeps waking up. Irony of ironies, now that Alex has finally gotten to “kiss the girl” as they say in a Disney movie, Alex is the one interrupting. lol
There’s the moment. Going. Goiiiing. GONE! It’s outta there! HOME RUN FAILLL!
Dan: What’s the matter, Alex?
Alex: I have a Kingdom to run, a dragon to kill, an elvish princess to protect (and hopefully marry), and a whole bunch of people depending on me… I’m swamped!
Dan: Get some rest — if you haven’t got your health, you haven’t got anything.
Arrrrgh, oh-so-close! That was a wonderfully sweet scene, Scott, I could feel the emotion 🙂 Plus, Nicole’s looking stunning in her new makeup (let’s say she dressed up for the movie, yeah? 😉 )
as always you made me laugh and i nearly spit out my wonderful potato salad. Thank you Silverwolf xD
captaaaaaaain kiss-blocker! *yeah Pablo Francisco should maim me for this*
Heh I was just being nitpicky…:P
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Was I supposed to hear that in the “Captain Caveman” voice?
… ’cause I did …
😉
I gotta say, that may be some of the best lighting work yet!
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Love the Lighting! It’s so much more polished compared to the first page.