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Flail!
I don’t know if doing animated style “flailing arms” works for Dreamland. But it seemed funny at the time.
🙂
I hope you’re enjoying these pages. Things are really getting interesting. And I’m quite worried I won’t be able to keep up production daily as things just keep getting bigger and bigger.
But…I’ll worry about it AFTER Christmas. Okay?
In the meanwhile.
I just wanted to thank you all again for removing your adblockers. For patronizing our sponsers (the advertisers). And for all of your generousness throughout the year.
I pray those of you who celebrate Christmas have a wonderful day tomorrow.
We’re supposed to get SNOW here in Franklin, TN.
It’s our FOURTH year here, now. And this will be our FIRST EVER Christmas WHITE CHRISTMAS.
Coming from Los Angeles…you don’t see too many of those.
😛
Very excited.
If you’d like to see more of what’s going on with me and my family.
You’re always welcome to follow me on Facebook.
Have a wonderful weekend.
And thank you again for making this a great week.
Scott
Nah, the flailing arms work fine. Love Felicity’s expression in the last panel.
Have a very Merry Christmas, Scott! I pray that you and your family have a very blessed Christmas, and thank you for the present of such a wonderful comic to look forward to reading all year round.
Felicity is HILARIOUS, and so is the last panel 🙂
Merry Christmas Scott, Donna, and the boys. Thank you for the comic and I hope 2011 sees a guaranteed Dreamland movie and plenty of money to fill the coffers.
Scott,
I am glad to turn off my ad blocker, but one of the first ads to greet me (right side, second ad slot down) was some sort of scantily clad woman being shown in different kinds of cloth (all very skimpy up top). Given what I assume is your target audience – apart from many of us adults who love your comic – I imagine this isn’t something that is proper.
I didn’t have the presence of mind at the time to click on the ad and see what it was for, but if it comes up again I’ll let you know. In the meantime, I figure its worth telling you about. I hope its helpful.
In any case, glad to help with the advertising support.
Merry Christmas!
Fr. Maurer
I love the arm flailing in the second panel. Sure, you never used that kind of comedic style before, but I think it’s really hilarious.
And: I can just see Felicity jumping at Alex for that remark he made in the last panel!
Finally: I wish you a very Merry Christmas and send my warmest regards to you and your family! I hope you’re doing well!
Oh, I was just wondering – why is the background so bright all of a sudden as to compared to two or three pages ago (personally I preferred it before – but that’s just my nit-picky self…)?
“She could get killed or “worse”…heheheh..The last frame really made me giggle. Only thing missing is a “GULP” thought-balloon over Felicity’s head.
PS: the flailing looks fine. It fits with Felicity’s character to get all movement when exited.
The flail is perfect! I love it! I’m surprised Alex “burned” Felicity…
Merry Christmas and happy new year to the entire Sava family!!!
Yep, the arm flailing came across great. 😀 It made me laugh out loud, heh.
Wishing the Sava family a wonderful Christmas & Happy New Year!! 😀
Traveling through dreams to heal her, cost about 3 years of worrying.
Meeting her childhood friend through letter, cost about 3 years back from happines.
Shuting felicity up? Priceless.
Thank you so much.
I can block it if I know what it is.
I’m trying to figure out a way to get the characters to pop from the army behind.
I’ll eventually go back and look at the pages and see what I need to do to make it consistent.
Or maybe an “EEP”
Thank you all!
Thank you for sharing another year together with us!
omg. That was so wrong. XD
Alright, now that I’m looking at this from home and not a work computer, I’m seeing my computer is already blocking the ads. Using IE8, anyone know where it would be to unblock this site?
I’m no expert on adblocking (heck…I just found out you guys were using it).
But if you’re just using IE8 with no ad blockers. It could be you need to install Java and/or Flash to see the ads.
Hope that helps.
And thank you, David!
heh..yeah “EEP” is more appropriate. Proves who is the actual “Writer” (with a capital W) here.
Merry X-Mas to You, Donna and the kids. I am already looking at 2 inches of snow in the Northern parts of The Netherlands. Here’s Hoping You’ll get Your “White Christmas” too. (You COULD always move to Quebec. I got family there..snow guaranteed..a bit much of it, but hey..cannot please anyone)
I got that one, too. It’s IMVU (or something like that). It says “Choose Your Look” at the bottom.
love the flailing arms and the “doe” eyes. she looks so sad that he didn’t mention her.
The flailing arms work great! Totally got the message across!
Merry Christmas, Scott!
I;m not sure about the flailing arms, I got the point but they look more blurry than flailing. I tried to describe what action might work here, but it was an epic fail… sorry. but I would have pictured an angry Gah! with it. haha.
Anyways hope you and yours have a very happy holiday!
🙂
*cracks up laughing* The Dense and The Naïve go to battle. Awww!
Arms flailing for the WIN! 😀 Also, I don’t think the EEP is necessary, since the perspective and body language has delivered the point home.
I mean, Alex’s face in the last panel is so ¬¬ … I’m laughing like a mad man still.
Love you Dude, and Donna, and all. 🙂 Merry X-Mas (little present here…)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crFQpOCDfEc
Bonus Track:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtmsIq0-T54&feature=related
Just don’t move to Ontario, take a look at the amount of snow some cities have here:
http://img827.imageshack.us/img827/6316/12134697.png
It’s actually not too bad where I live; there haven’t been any blizzards so far, that is. 🙂
I live in Wisconsin and white Christmases are fairly common. However, I have a lot of friends down south who are petrified of driving in even a quarter-inch of snow. Here are some tips just in case. 😀
In the case of White Christmases…
1. Don’t put sand on the ice or snow. It does precisely nothing. Put salt on it. Road/rock salt if you can get it; I tried table salt one time and it worked a little.
2. If you slide on the ice in the car, turn the steering wheel the same way that the back end is going, and DO NOT BRAKE! Braking induces donuts. Bump the shift into neutral if it’s a long skid.
Merry Christmas and Happy everything else.
/relurk/
the flailing arms was the funniest thing for me all week XD i really smiled at that one ^___^
and yay for voting button!! thanx ^_____^
merry christmas~ =)
That’s the weird part, I know I have java and flash on the computer. Heck, it’s better updated then the work computer that’s already showing them.
If it helps, I have AVG and AdAware on my computer, free versions of both. It’s possible one of them is doing it on it’s own.
Flailing arms, good. Flailing arms beating on Alexander, better? LOL
Its white here too at the moment
I’d be more worried about that doofus Alexander getting killed than anyone else. That and why is it that all of our beloved warriors, especially Felicity, are going into battle with nothing other than their street clothes and pajamas?
I love the shots! It did communicate her point well. Merry Christmas (Eve)/Happy holidays and have a happy New Year to the Savas and my fellow Dreamers!
This could be my most favorite page to date. Good job. I mean Alex tends to come across super dense 95% of the time but this does a lot to make him likable throwing in some subtle humor. Whether it is on purpose or not.
Yeah, the IMVU ads range from “Be a sexy Avatar!” (as in the blue-skinned Na’vi people) to near-cheesecake images of Paris Hilton wannabes. I’ve never cared for their ads. Wish you could just pick and choose your advertisers – it’d be awesome to get Nytol as a sponsor 😉
Actually, salt only works when it’s close to freezing–then it helps melt the snow or ice and lets it drain away. But it can be hard on the nearby vegetation.
Sand works particularly on ice when it is cold–like 10⁰F or less—then the ice (snow) won’t melt in any case, but at least the sand will give some roughness to allow better traction, and when it does warm up and get sunny, the darker sand will help promote melting.
ouch on fercility. lol. i love her flailling arms in the second panel. XD
merry christmas! 🙂
Merry Christmas !!!!
:D!! You live in Franklin!! I have been reading this comic for over a year and I am just moving to Franklin (living currently in Brentwood)~
It is indeed a white Christmas!! Enjoy it.
The flailing arms looks a bit odd… But it’s fair enough for the moment, I think. I don’t know how else you would portray that.
Merry Christmas!! 😀
Think about it in terms of RPG or D&D rpging. She’s a rogue character who is abnormally more fast and dextrous than the other players. No armor is a personal choice because she believes she can move away from shots or deflect. If your fast enough armor hinders. Armor in rpg terms is there to keep your lowlevel char.s alive till they Either Get Faster and Dodge, or Take the hits but the armor will keep you going better and in strategy speaking I think she’s just gonna keep flanking heavier armored units and not present too much of a target…sorry to ramble…and MERRY CHRISTISAMIS EVERYBODY!!
Actually, you can allow certain ads through based on their server – for instance, I only like Project Wonderful ads. I use Adblock for Chrome, so here’s what I did: instead of allowing domains through the whitelist in Adblock, I specifically allowed Project Wonderful’s server through the blacklist. (Odd, I know.) I added this to the “custom filters” field:
@@||projectwonderful.com^
If you want to replace ‘projectwonderful.com’ with any other ad server, it works just as well. =D Hope this helps!
Hmmm…
…Maybe that’s why the snowplow trucks don’t bother salting until after the snow stops. And yeah, it does a number on the curbside grass, come May. Maybe they put something wierd in the salt up here, though, because the road salt is blue and appears to work down to about 5 below. /shrug
Thanks for explaining the sand; I never quite understood why anyone used it. 😀
This is really random, but are we ever gonna see the teddy bears again? I love them!
Yeah! I want to see the Teddy Bears join the fight like the Ewoks lol
Flailing arms! How did I miss that the first time I saw this page?? Love it!
Right. I can’t even start to imagine how hard that must be. Especially in 3D! Don’t worry about my comments too much. I’m just pointing things out that kind of feel wrong to me at the time I read this.
You’re still doing a great job!
Felicity: “She could get killed…or worse! She could have her account get banned!”
And after I spent all that time making elaborate, non-stripperiffic outfits for IMVU in the hopes that wearing more would become popular there… -_-;
And Nastajia is probably wondering what could have been said that made Felicity wave her arms like that…
Road salt also does a pretty bad number on your car’s paint job if you don’t wash shortly after driving through it.
Not cool, Alex. Not cool at all. >=(