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Happy Monday all!
I hope you had a great weekend!
This week is a FUN week in Dreamland. If you like Nicodemus and King Arthur, that is.
🙂
I like the dialog of this week. I like the reveal of the two personalities. And I hope you enjoy how this fleshes out Nicodemus’ motives and how Dreamland and the Nightmare realm work.
So cool.
You may notice some old characters from chapter 4 in the crowd. I just couldn’t afford to make new characters for these 2 panels. I’m hoping it’s not TOO noticeable.
But wanted you all to know I knew you might see it.
Ha!
Also…
I updated the JUKEBOX!!
I have 6 new songs for you all!
The Frog Prince is from my new favorite group called KEANE. This is my favorite song on an album I REALLY like. I highly recommend picking it up.
Lazarus is a song I heard on Pandora (I love pandora) by a group called Porcupine Tree (where do they come up with these names?).
On top of the world is a great song by Jem.
Always by Plumb is a wonderful song of a new mother to her child. So sweet.
Breakable is from Ingrid Michaelson. I picked up her album too. Very good.
And finally… You get What you Give by the New Radicals is a bit old. But I’ve been enjoying it lately. A fun song.
Hope you enjoy.
Book Four is at IDW. Getting notes back this week. Then off to the printer.
I’ll have the store up this week. I’m working on it. (Thanks to my sister for the extra help.)
I hope you enjoy this week. And thank you for reading.
Scott
So…
Treason is the word that goes through his mind? Murder? All of the above?
Whatever. The dragon is pissed off.
ya beat me to it, and I very much agree!
oh man things dont look good now
How about revealing how Nicodemus became the Dreamland king’s adviser?
and its time to get the ketchup, toothpicks….DONT GO ARTHUR…ITS A TRAP!
Were is General Ackbar when you need him…
to be quite honest… at the moment I can totally understand nic. he’s been the adviser of other human kings before arthur and he should have a fair understanding of the conquering nature of humans. knowing how fast less scrupulous men try to take over other people’s properties and lands and destroy their cultures and beliefs, I would be very against it, too.
arthur and merlin might mean well, but arthur is thinking of bringing his enemies. XD
arthur is far too naive to think that’ll end well… ^^;
I think that the expression of Nic in panel 1 is priceless…
really good page 🙂
He is just really pissed. Look at his reaction. Now something important will be brought to Arthur I will guess
Just look at Nic’s pose in the last panel. You can see how he is poised to stand up, revealing his full height and power!
Nicodemus: “Arthur, a word, if I may? That word is…hurgenflurgen.”
Arthur: “…what?”
Nicodemus: “I panicked. Sorry.
I get the feeling Arthur is going to learn that Nic is nothing like Saphira!
Arthur is so flumoxed at Nic’s interuption of his delivery that he doesn’t seem to realize that something significant has just happened, that this disclosure has galvanized Nic into action. And Nic is being so civil and courtly about it that he doesn’t see it. Oops.
Uh-oez….can anybody say “unhappy dwagon”?
oh i betting this is when nic betray the king and makes him the king
Scott, are you sure those are the same characters from chapter 4??? maybe they just look like their great-great-(however many greats) grand-children 😛 LOL never would have noticed if you hadn’t pointed it out. don’t sweat it!
DITTO!!!!
Agreed!
I agree with Joey… I wouldn’t have noticed that those were the same characters, but then again I have trouble finding my Scott in a crowd of people so what do I know. LOL.
Ditto!
O_O Meep! Nicky’s PISSED. Tomorrow will ROCK!
OH yeah!
Yep, the dragon is pissed.
I wouldn’t worry about the reuse of some extras from eleven chapters ago. After all, it happens all the time with live action TV series, and sometimes those guest stars or extras later join the main cast as someone completely different such as when Harry Morgan took the role of Col. Potter on M*A*S*H after having in an earlier season guest starred as a lunatic general.
Yeah, Nic’s not happy, but I think he’s getting poised for some more strenuous manipulation…
Crowd looks good to me, Scott!
‘I’m going to yell at you now, and I don’t think either of us wants an audience for that.’
What can I say, Nic knows how to play the politics game.
From the beginning, Nicodemus has been my favourite character. He’s the ideal, the perfect villain. (Well, as a fictional character he’s the perfect villain. As a true villain, he monologues a bit too much, which gives opportunities to his enemies. But being that he’s fictional, that rocks. I heart Nic’s monologues. ) And I love this opportunity being taken to flesh out his background, and his true motives. You sympathize, and understand him now. What Arthur’s doing is DANGEROUS. It will not yield positive results bringing adult humans with ill intent into Dreamland. The problem with idealistic leaders like Arthur is they tend to be too naive, always believing the best in people even with no good reason to.
I can see already why Nic did what he did. I can see what he’s thinking and his reasoning. Arthur’s taken the first step in ruining Dreamland. Merlin is gaining the means to take this further. And these are the BEST of humans, as he said previously. How can he take the risk that the next king won’t do the same thing, or make it worse? All of Dreamland will be at risk. He needs to stop this, to take action before it goes too far.
Personally, I kind of understand Nic’s fears. Especially with the current story. Can we actually, truly imagine Alex being the LEADER of this land?
‘Your highness, the dwarfs are continuing to hold the fairy representative hostage, but we cannot make a direct attack because it would violate the treaty and cause an uproar. What should we do?’
‘Uh, hit him until he lets her go?’
‘…’
‘What?’
Yeah. Can’t blame Nic all that much. Although I’m sure Dan would have been much more capable. XD
Its worse – Nic just moved to BLOCK THE DOORWAY. The only escape route. I think we’re about to have a severe barbecue party with no witnesses, and Arthur will be put to magical sleep of some kind. That way, Nic ensures that there are no witnesses left to reveal what Arthur just showed.
Oi, Arthur, I hope you remember all the lessons Merlin gave you…. you’re gonna need them dude.
Very nice page. Intense dramatic energy leves rising at 70% and growing!!!
As usual, I heart Thee young&bold Sava. That’s some beautiful page you have here. 😀
I do like how Nic has been less than polite with Arthur. He certainly does not act like a subservient advisor.
Thank you all!
Such fun dialog this week. I hope you continue to enjoy.
I rofl, Sir Silverwolf, at your witty humor. 19 results of hurgenflurgen on Google. I am surprised at the diplomacy of Nick, but he is very savvy in the political world, so in retrospect, I shouldn’t be.
Awwww…. ol’ dragon-butt’s actually got a heart. It’s good to see he was honorable, and that his motivations likely lay initially with keeping Dreamland safe.
It’s what he’s likely going to do from here out, claiming the human king’s throne as he does, that truly begins to corrupt him. I see his motivations – as far as I understand them at least – as being philanthropic to begin with but… as with any ruler given power… is tempted to use that power for his own means.
Therein he fails to be a just ruler and degrades swiftly into a tyrant, forcing his version of history into the minds of his fellow Dreamlanders and attempting to wipe out all traces of its human-ruled past.
On another note… darn it, Scott… updating your Jukebox was mean… I’ve been listening to the new additions all day. Darn you and your good taste.
ROFLOL
Stargate did that on several occassions- where guest stars were featured in later as other characters (and sometimes, in both cases, were significant parts for several episodes). I have also noticed- as I’ve been watching through Babylon 5 (via Netflix DVD) that some of the extras pop up later in other roles, too.
I’m not so sure that he has Dreamland’s best interests at heart. Personally, I think he just wants Dreamland for himself and has been waiting for an opportunity to depose a human king through a takeover that others wouldn’t be able to object to. If Arthur were to naively bring in his enemies to Dreamland, it would give his enemies yet another realm to conquer- one that Nicodemus wants to rule. These people would become a threat to him, and he to them. He would be their first target- once they’ve done away with people like Arthur, that is (i.e.- others who have access from their own world who would try to stop them). No, I think Nicodemus is just a dragon straight from the Nightmare Realm who is pretending to be something he is not.
If I am right, this makes him the perfect villain all the more.
Heh… Maybe I -AM- sympathizing with the villain a bit much, but that just comes from me wanting to see reason in his struggle for power. Dragon-butt’s subservient only because that’s the natural order of how Dreamland is SUPPOSED to operate, in my opinion.
lol! yep, me too
Lol. Dangerous dragon. No, I didn’t notice they were reapeats until you pointed them out. And even then, they are more like characters that spark in the back of my mind “hey, those look somewhat familiar…but I can’t quite place them…” So, no worries. =)
So, we did speeches in my archaeology class today. And I learned a few good facts that you might like to know.
1) 740-1050 AD is The Viking Age.
2) The name of Thor’s hammer is “Mjollnir.”
3) Vikings were burried in their ships with all their belonings. Or had surface stone grave markers around their burial place in the shape of a ship.
4) Christianization of Scandinavia was from the 8th century-12th century. It took very long for the Norsemen to transfer to the Christian faith.
5) Only the raiders went “a viking.” They were the ones eventually nicknamed Vikings.
Hope this helps. =D
I’m a fan of both Dreamland Chronicles and Porcupine Tree… somehow. Ha. The band got it’s name as a joke, I believe–even the creator thought it was silly.
Heck, I couldn’t even find the recycled extras after they were mentioned … but do I spy Foghorn Leghorn at the far right of the crowd in the last panel?
😉
Yaaaaaayyy!! Updated Jukebox!! XD I’m so excited! *dances*
I LOVE Pandora, too! I’ve gotten tuned in to so many awesome singers and bands because of this little offspring of the music genome project. My music palate has expanded more in the last few months than it has in my whole lifetime because of Pandora.
Another fact: the ones who went East (mostly Swedes and Danes) were not called Vikings, but Varangarians. They founded Russia, particularly its first capitals, Novgorod and Kiev. They also reached Constantinople, and were hired to guard the Emperor.
Agreed. Good symbolism, having Nic on all fours and submissive until this point when Arthur finally crosses that line Nic had set in his mind.
Up to 85 now.
That first panel has so much potential for captions.
“You ate my brownie?”
“He stole my treasure!”
…I lied. That’s about it.
ITS A TTTAAAAARRRRRPPPPPPPPP