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Happy Monday, all!
This looks like another busy week here. So please let me apologize in advance if pages turn up mid day instead of the usual midnight posting.
One day (once all papers are signed) I’ll happily tell you ALL about everything that’s been going on.
In the meantime…
Have you downloaded our new iPad app?
It’s totally free. And it has The Dreamland Chronicles in it!
Please check it out!
Also…
On Wednesday night…I’ll be a guest on Moonhawk Studios Presents!
Please join in, as I get shy doing these things. I could use all the help I can get.
🙂
Thank you all!
Have a wonderful day!
Scott
Discussion (53) ¬
*ahem*
Aw, snap.
“Ow…” I think combat rounds over now?
Looks like Nic is trying to pull some building out of his back. 🙂 Not like he didn’t deserve it!
Reminds me of one of my favorite Doctor Who moments:
Cyber Leader: “You LIE, Doctor!”
Doctor: “Not at all. You’ve LOST!”
Dude… Alex has been getting the best of Nick… before he ever even knew he was getting the best of Nick. First the cut to the eye… now getting shoved through a building…
Wow, what a pose!! I love panel one! Go get him, Alex!
This is when we get the, “Oh, but you’ve forgotten one key thing, hero –” line. Nicodemus can’t go down that easy.
That guy’s home insurance doesn’t cover dragon damage! He’s going to have to pay for that out of pocket! Bad Alex! *hits Alex on the nose with a rolled up newspaper* No collateral damage, take it outside the city.
Belle is mine! Wait, wrong movie to quote.
Awesome to see Alex call Nicodemus “Nick.” I thought that was just a fan thing.
Oh Alex, it’s never over. People like you can only justify their existence because people (in a broader sense here) like Nick.
You need a villain to be a hero. Though, hero… with all the collateral damage Alex’s silly little war has caused… Oi…
It’s over, NICK!
epic line.
NICK! Holy Gosh, that makes me chuckle big time.
Yes, Natural Twenty on the in-flight charge and Epic Line for the win! C’mon Alex, let’s go Nick! Epic battle, Talon to Toe, Claw and Fire to Fist and Blade, let’s do this!
Alex arrived just in the nick of time to save those villagers 😛
Heh. Don’t forget that last time ended up with Alex spending quite a bit of time at the bottom of the canyon… Nick took the punch, but he’s not out yet.
Hrm… Who wants to bet this is a plot by the Nightmares to get Nick? With or without valueable Dream Kingdom artifacts?
Nicodemus: First things first, to the death.
Alex: No. To the pain.
Nicodemus: I don’t think I’m quite familiar with that phrase.
Alex: I’ll explain and I’ll use small words so that you’ll be sure to understand, you warthog faced buffoon.
Nicodemus: That may be the first time in my life a man has dared insult me.
Alex: It won’t be the last. To the pain means the first thing you will lose will be your feet below the ankles. Then your hands at the wrists. Next your nose.
Nicodemus: And then my tongue I suppose, I killed you too quickly the last time. A mistake I don’t mean to duplicate tonight.
Alex: I wasn’t finished. The next thing you will lose will be your left eye followed by your right, followed by half of your left wing, and half the right one.
Nicodemus: And then my ears, I understand let’s get on with it.
Alex: WRONG. Your ears you keep and I’ll tell you why. So that every shriek of every dreaming child at seeing your hideousness will be yours to cherish. Every fairy that weeps at your approach, every woman who cries out, “Dear God! What is that thing,” will echo in your perfect ears. That is what to the pain means. It means I leave you in anguish, wallowing in freakish misery forever.
Nicodemus: I think you’re bluffing.
Alex: It’s possible, Pig, I might be bluffing. It’s conceivable, you miserable, vomitous mass, that I’m only leaning here against the wall because I lack the strength to stand alone. But, then again… perhaps I have the strength after all.
[slowly rises and points sword directly at the dragon]
Alex: DROP… YOUR… CLAWS!
Nicodemus: [Nicodemus’s mouth hangs open, drops arms to floor]
Ah, but the dragon isn’t hurt badly, just nicked… Really, it was kind of a-lex attack…
Considering how many chapters we still have left…I’mma say it’s not QUITE over just yet. Either Nick pulls a heel face turn against some greater evil, or he’s still got a whole bunch of fight still left in him.
Or he really is defeated and the rest of the chapters follow an entirely different storyline, but that doesn’t seem too likely.
I don’t know if Nick’s ready to pack it in yet. There’ll probably be a few more hits exchanged, but that Sword has consistently been the thing he’s afraid of, it’s hurt him more than once, and now that Alex has figured out how to really pull off ALL the Dreamland maneuvers, Nick should recognize that he’s facing a King of Dreamland in the moment of his power; Out Of His League now.
My guess, though, is that the Nightmare Realm is about to become the real threat. Either they’ll axe Nick as having served his purpose, or Nick’s going to switch sides because while the others have every reason to hate him, he’s the one who knows what they’re dealing with, and Nick knows that now that he’s lost the battle he WILL be disposed of.
Epic movie Parody was EPIC.
I salute you.
Good call!
Yeah, lots of chapters yet. I think it’s far from over. Might be the end of round one, though.
Well, fortunately for the owner of the house, I believe the repairs will be coming from funds recently provided from the royal treasury. I think that there will even be some currency left over afterward.
Nic, PLEASE listen to him for once!
“Poor boy… they really didn’t tell you that the shield-generation capability only works once per sleep cycle? Quite sloppy of them, really.”
{inhale…}
:oD
“And if you don’t accept that, I’m going to keep calling you Nick until you do, ’cause it’s really stupid and annoying.
LOL!
I only thought of this after I left for work… Consider this an insert:
Alex: … perhaps I have the strength after all.
[Inserted edit:]
And remember, this sword does cut through everything…
[/Inserted edit]
[slowly rises and points sword directly at the dragon]
[Inserted edit:]
[Painful memories cause Nicodemus to touch his right eyebrow, as well as a poorly healed wound on the left thigh]
[/Inserted edit]
Alex: DROP… YOUR… CLAWS!
Nicodemus: [Nicodemus’s mouth hangs open, drops arms to floor]
I don’t think Nicks giving up yet. At the very least, “Enter the diversion that covers for the dragon’s escape…”
You’re forgetting, Alex still knows NOTHING about ruling a kingdom. And there’s the bit that a lot of Dreamland kings have been rulers in our world as well. I can easily see a number of chapters on him learning the ropes, solving a few minor disasters, and how this affects his life in the ‘real world’.
Looks more to me like he’s favoring a broken wing. That does NOT look like a natural curve – and if a dragon’s bones are hollow like a bird’s to allow flight, the wingbones especially are probably pretty fragile. Going through a building wing-first seems like a good way to lose the ability to fly, at least for a while.
Oh no, nothing ever goes well for someone who’s just said that…
While that is true, the fact remains that this is mostly an advanture-type story. So while it is possible that some time may be devoted to Alex learning the ropes of being a proper ruler, it is more likely that there is still much more action to come, before Alex can claim total victory, and freedom for Dreamland.
Quick: someone break through that fourth wall, and tell Alex that with at least 8 more chapters to go, he can’t afford to think he’s already won!
Love it!
Omg! Comic is getting close to end! :p
(I watched too many american movies)
But according to his childish personality, the remark fits well 😐
I half expect him to pull a bomb or something from behind his back and say, “farewell, hero!”
Then vanish in a puff of smoke, never to be seen or heard from again.
not to burst anyone’s bubble, but where are the freaking wraths?! some help they are ” oh sure we will help you out on evil plans and spying, but as for fighting, your on your own.”
panel one wallpaper please?
Tuesday’s page. Lots of debris and such.
Should have it for you by morning.
How’s that iPad App downloading people?????
Eight chapters of “learning the ropes” not only doesn’t sound particularly exciting, but would be a massive shift in the story that I don’t really see happening. It’s possible, but I wouldn’t call it a likely scenario.
I am shocked that none said this…
Roll for initiative!
There is of course the fact that Dan is the older brother who, by that virtue, should be king of dreamland. Not sure how that is going to play out in the later chapters and, we know Alex gets the girl (Nash) in the end 🙂 oh and Dan of course has to have his fair lady, Nicole.. Lets not forget all the other folks there people!
More to the point, the Nightmare Realm has been supporting, perhaps even MANIPULATING, Nicodemus. Now that he’s no longer a powerful force, they’ll have to act directly.
And no matter how the battle against Nick goes, THAT will be a problem that will take quite some time to solve.
Especially since even if the good guys get the upper hand, they’ll almost certainly have to come to some sort of accommodation with the Nightmare Realm; nightmares cannot be totally banished any more than dreams can.
“THWUCK!”
“You may find that breathing fire is difficult now that I’ve stuck a sword through your throat.”
There is precedent in both Fantasy and real life for two brothers ruling jointly.
That may have been a hard hit by Alex, but I’m sure a dragon of Nick’s size can recover quickly regardless.
let’s just hope the battle doesn’t drag on or we might need a lex-icon too keep this up.
I have read the whole comic to this point. (awsome!) and i keep getting the feeling that nic knows things about the dreamrealm and also the sword no one else knows. i think here is is testing alex. or trying to trick him in some way.. maybe the sword has rules limiting its use. esp in anger. or for vengance. cause nic seems really trying to egg alex on for some reason…
OMG! it is blue iron man not red lol
I know I do…
I keep half expecting Alex to go full-on DBZ against Nic and throw him up into the air (tail or neck as grip point) and then a few panels of vaguely Alex shaped blurs hitting Nic from several different directions ending in down leaving a smoking crater at the impact point. But, alas prolly won’t happen.