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Happy Monday, All!
My apologies for this being late.
Here’s the situation.
We’re working out the final bits of a deal that will see us doing several animated features.
This, of course has taken up a LOT of my time. Lots of meetings. Paperwork, etc.
As soon as I can…I’ll give you ALL the details.
Promise.
can’t think of a better reason for being late! 🙂 Looking forward to the details!!
yay! Details! I love today’s page by the way, full of good info =D
Somehow, I see Daniel making a table-sized map of Dreamland with detailed terrain features, and using game figures (Warhammer, D&D, or whatever he might have – surely he’s into tabletop gaming of some sort) to represent the various forces for the upcoming war.
Using the strategic genius that can only come from years of experience – either on the battlefield or on the tabletop – Dan carefully devises several alternate plans of action.
His first thought: “you know the Nightmare Realm is going to open with a Zergling Rush … ”
😉
Take all the time you need. And yay for details!
Ooh, so this sounds like a good plan. I wonder what the last panel means though.
LOL! I can totally see this. It sounds spot-on :D.
I like how Dan can be in dreamland (although it’s through the sword) and I can’t wait for you to tell us what’s up with the animation!
I’m rubbing my hands with glee at the promised details though I understand how long the process can be.
One children’s author I met has been in talks with Disney for over 2 years about making her stories into movies.
Also can’t remember if you addressed this, but why has the sword waited this long to talk. I’m half-expecting the joke, “well nobody asked me”.
As much as i can appreciate Alexander’s humility, isn’t he just a puppet if he follows all of daniels ideas?
Well Daniel IS the true king…
And he’s not really following all of Daniel’s idea per se. From the sounds of things he’s gone over this with Daniel already.
No, this is genius. Alex is Inigo to Daniel’s recently-dead Westley.
ROFL, my thoughts were nearly exactly the same, thought in my mind I was using a gretchin horde. Though you are right it should be zerg, Zerg are made of win, gretchins not so much. Unless its a gretchin with a sawed off shotgun, then the gretchin wins every time (sorry, old campaign based running joke)
I don’t think Alex is being a puppet. In fact, he’s doing the one thing any sensible, clear-thinking king would be doing in a situation where he doesn’t know how to go forward. He is relying on advice. It’s why kings had advisors in the first place, on various topics. It wasn’t just to tell them whether their idea was good or bad, but to give ideas when the kings themselves had none.
Alex gets the girl, Dan the responsability. win-win for both!
oh and btw: When was it decided that they would go to war? Last time they were still arguing…
Oh great, now the SWORD is king, Dan is the advisor pulling the strings and Alex is a public figure.
Love Nastajia’s eyes in this panel, not to mention the expression of near wonderment on her face. Looks good on her. Me likey! It’s fixing to get plumb interesting, don’tcha reckon?
scot the shine of hilt and blade are really looking real as you could reach into the panel and hold it, and the way you rendered nats eyes wonderful too i love this page so much
What I find interesting, is that the sword is taking an active role. It isn’t just acting as a digital recorder.
lol.. saves Alex the trouble of having to remember a few simple instructions 🙂
Agreeing with David G, Nastajia’s eyes are great!
I’m guessing that once the wraiths find out Daniel is helping via the sword, and pass the news along to the Nightmare realm and Nic, Daniel is going to have to watch his back!!!
Only MOSTLY dead 😛
“will see us doing several animated features.”
Spontaneous happy dance!
glad that he’s back in dreamland!
i’m also glad that the story goes about Alex again (not that I disliked Arthurs story, Alex is just cooler!)!
can’t wait for the next chapters…
sorry for the bad english!!!!
Indeed, that might be the cutest I’ve ever seen Nastajia so far…
Pfff, Scott isn’t late, he just like to keep us in suspense and is great about Drama haha.
J/K but can’t wait to see whats going to happen next!
I really like Nastaja’s face in the fourth panel! She looks very pretty with those new eyes she got a few pages back.
And MOSTLY dead is, of course, partly alive…
Noooooo. I’ve just read the entire comic. I hate when archive binges end.
Comic looks great! Happy 22nd anniversary of meeting your wife, Mr. Sava! 😀
Yikes. Is that TODAY???
how does the sword know what dan’s plans are?
Well I happened to be looking through the archive of blog posts and went back to 2008 somehow and found that the post was dated September 28. So yes, I guess it was 🙂
It knows what is going on while it is a necklace on Earth. It just isn’t able to talk while it is there. So if Daniel explains it all to Alex the sword will be able to repeat it in Dreamland as perfectly as it recorded Arthur’s last days.
natasha has that “I’m in love” kind of look in her eyes
are her affections suddenly shifted to daniel?
Welcome fellow Dreamer!
I read surprise and respect there, rather than love. Sexy respect, of course, but just respect …
😉
What point is it being black if you cannot get sunburnt.
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Daniel: “Okay…once we have the elven archers placed, we need to start mining mineral and get a gateway up as soon as possible to spawn Zealots. Once we have a forge up, we lay down a defensive line of photon cannons and get Stalkers in place while we work on expanding to the next resource site…”
*in Dreamland*
Alex: “On second thought maybe I should handle the military planning.”
And we haven’t heard from Scott since…