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Hi all!
What a week. So much going on.
Sorry for the lack of update on Wednesday.
I hope you’re enjoying this part of the chapter. I wish I could spend a bit more time on these pages.
My buddies John, Rich, and Jamal are doing a kickstarter. I’d highly recommend you check it out.
See you tomorrow.
Scott
All hail Queen Nastajia!
Nice to (hopefully) see Alex really be a king. I felt gypped when I was denied watching Prince Zuko heal the wounds of the four nations in Avatar the Last Airbender.
I think a marriage would be in order first there for that to be official, but who are we kidding, she might as well be.
Ugh, I REALLY hope Nic made it out of this. It’s be a terrible plot turn if such a highly-developed and likeable villain were to just up and die without so much as a “You haven’t seen the last of me, fools!”
Dead. Huh. Somehow, I don’t feel convinced. I sort of expected to see Nick’s head on a spike… still babbling on.
And Scott, is that a comma after ‘All hail’? I have a vague feeling it doesn’t quite belong there. (Not a Native Speaker, Known to Be Wrong, but still.)
All hail Zombie Nic? Wraised by Wraiths?
Wait what? I sort of thought it would be a bit more dramatic. One minute it looks like he is dead, then suddenly he is awake being praised?
Pretty sure he is still alive, considering he planned on killing Nastajia and the others after taking care of Alex.
Boy! He’s sure gonna have one heck of a story to tell Dan when he wakes up!
remember….Nic isn’t dead until there is a corpse. 😛
I’m also still rooting for Nic… but we may be in the minority here… 🙁
The body hasn’t been seen. Therefore, he isn’t dead. It’s pretty much an unwritten rule of fiction. Besides, we’ve still got a whole bunch of chapters to go. And as has been said, Nic’s an awesome character, and this would have been a rather anti-climactic “death” for him.
Yeah, I’m not convinced ^.=.-
Hey, it’s good to be the king!
rejoice rejoice :0
The dragon is dead but we can’t show you the body because it fell into the ocean. Why yes, we do have pictures but they are too horrible to show them to you.
Sounds familiar somehow …
Of course Nic isn’t dead. There’s no body is there?
All we need is for someone to say “no one could have survived that” and then it’ll be *certain* he’s still alive. 🙂
Long live Queen Cassima!
Long live the Land of the Green Isles!
…
Oh wait, sorry, wrong King Alexander. 😛
nic didnt come back up. unless dragons can breath under water which i dont think nics type of dragon can. then hes dead unless the merpeople saved nic by mistake… or the wriath where watching the whole battle pulled him out at the last second with magic..
*Clears throat*
“Nobody could have survived that!”
…
*Looks at Scott hopefully*
And indeed, there was much rejoicing.
🙂
I actually thought of the same two options.
Maybe a prodigal or outcast mermaid saves him?
why am i going to get the feeling that alex will say he not the king since his brother should be the king and not him he doesn’t have the head for it.. and he knows it
and nick is deadier then a door nail he got sliced and ran thru with a sword that severed his spine and he bled to death as well as drowned and be held under with ton of rocks on him… add a science aspect to this if he isnt dead then he will be due he cant move with his spine cut and his lungs filling up with water and blood and his internal organs taking damage from the water depth, since all bodies are sealed to prevent water from going in a cut like he endured and being ran thru, he is dead.
jim.. he’s dead…
He’s looking a tad shell-shocked to me.
Alex should modestly reply that his brother Dan,NOT HIM,is really to be the new king of Dreamland.How will that go over???
I don’t think we’ve seen the last of Nic.
Hope Alex gets the armor all fixed up and shiny again!
Well, that was a sudden tonal shift.
For the past several weeks/months, we’ve had an epic battle in the rain, and then all of a sudden, “YAAAAAAAAAAAAY!”
I don’t know; it just seems a bit abrupt.
yaaayyyy…. yaaayyyy
I kid you not, I was listening to Girl in the Tower as I was reading this.
What program do you use to create the backgrounds and characters? We are currently taking part in an assignment of graphic novels, and this is my chosen comic of interest :). I’m just interested in what kind of software you use to render? :).
3ds Max.
You can read more about that here…
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/extras/frequently-asked-questions/
and here…
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/category/the-dreamland-chronicles/the-making-of-the-dreamland-chronicles/
Hey…I don’t see a body.
No body…not dead.
I agree, it does feel very sudden. But maybe that’s because we’ve just grown used to the second by second theme the comic has followed in some of the other chapters.
HA HA… this reminds me a guest strip a while back where Alex and Nastajia were getting married and in the middle of it Alex wakes up… was looking for it, but couldn’t find it posted on the site.
Hey Scott, do you think you could find a place on the site to post some of the guest strips? or is it already there and I just don’t know where to look?
“Iiiii ain’t go no body”
*dances along with the line*
Alex thinking: I’m screwed.
now what kind of zombie would he be? “night of the living dead” or “shawn of the dead” also hope if that is the case alex has a copy of the zombie survival guide.
*holds up monty phython type cut outs.* “yeah”.
Considering the work Orion did with Alex and communicating with Dan, I’m sure he’d be releaved!
probably more like: Oh Crap
Dead bodies float 🙂
You just reminded me of something. “I’m not dead yet!!” 😀
I thought it would be more like: Nastajia, hide me…please?
I was thinking it was a bit premature to claim Nick was dead. 🙂
@Joey: “And nobody cares a-for me…” *dances* Ahh…brilliant stuff…I need to watch that movie again. 🙂 Thanks for the reminder.
Now you just need the proper fanfare to make this a perfect strip.
Lurveable awesomeness. Seriously…. Writers Rock.
So I guess we can assume Nick is only mostly dead? 🙂
not a zombie… DRACOLICHE
‘Course, Smaug didn’t float, but then he was coated in jewels… And yeah, I want to see Nick come back, even if just as a shell of his former self enslaved to the Nightmare Army. Although it’s just possible that Scott’s got an even better villain up his sleeve…
“The Hero and the Crown.” 🙂 There was this Robin McKinley book where, basically, dragons didn’t truly die… hero’s cluelessly bring home the head of the great dragon she’s slain to hang in the banquet hall, and it proceeds to telepathically drive people into depression and madness so that they’ll be weak when they are invaded. This is a children’s story, but Nick’s “body” is right below Astoria… Meh. Probably not happening. Just came to mind.
Maybe, but somehow I don’t think “ashes fell into the open” really leaves as much room for reintroducing a character then the whole body falling in.
Yes. I’d love to. I’ll see what I can do.
🙂
Mostly dead is nearly alive! Quick, fetch the bellows.
So… Nicodemus = Rasputin II ?
-> Poisoned, stabbed, and shot, but actually dies from drowning after being dumped into the water…
It would be funny in an ironic sort of way if it turned out that Nic was just the Dragon (in the TVTropes sense: the big, powerful henchmen of the real boss). 😛
Then that means he would get Hijacked by Ganon, wouldn’t it?
And secretly, that’s not Alex. It’s Nicodemus in disguise! (He doesn’t look happy in that panel. lol)
OR secretly they’re wraiths disguised as Nastajia and Alex, and the real ones are trapped in an underwater cell!
OR Nicodemus is still alive, somehow!
*goes on and on* lol
It’s funny how often two unrelated things can have so many similarities. 😀
“I’m feelin’ bettah!” 😀
Interestingly enough, I think most people felt gypped that they weren’t denied watching that movie… ;o)
Well, if we’re lucky, that Legend of Korra series will touch on those details a bit, whenever it comes out.
Death is only the beginning.
” ‘Ere…he says he’s not dead!”
Let’s see–the King has to be human, so Nastajia could only be Queen as Alex’s consort. She can’t be Queen of the Elves until they find out for sure that her parents are dead, but with Nicodemus out of the way, that may not be hard. Unless Nico comes back, of course.
That’s only if you really want to know what his last words were.
I’m thinking I would rather eat the minstrels than the dragon.
Yeah, I agree… these last 2 pages seems a bit quick compared to the previous like 10 pages… It’s like spending 10 pages laying out, in fine detail, a conflict.. then at the climax, in 1 sentence: “But everything somehow worked out in the end and everyone was happy.” I started getting this feeling slightly with the last panel of yesterday’s page, but really felt it with today’s page. A bit like “did I miss yesterday’s update?” feeling…
Not that I’m complaining… just stating how I felt when I first read this page ^^;
Nic in disguise was what I thought too! =D But I like your wraiths theory =D They seem more capable of disguising as human/elf somehow~ and I like the idea of both of them in 1 problem at some point. It seems most of Alex’s problems were shared w/ Felicity up to this point (ie. initially escaping treasure room, then returning there) whereas Nastajia, though on the same team, was always at a different “post” doing something else, except for when EVERYONE was in the same room. They’re never trapped together or working together… or maybe I just forgot ^^;;
“To bluff” or is it “True love”?
True – but if it *didn’t* do that… if it had this big climactic “final conflict” scene… then when Nic does come back – and he’s coming back – you’d be thinking, “wait… we’ve already taken care of this problem.”
Ok, not meaning to be critical – I love the comic and know it has been a time crunch week…but I think the lighting should be redone in the last panel – to me, it really screams out for inspirational/cheesy cliche ray of sun lighting Alexander’s triumphant face.
Three words Drac-O-Lich In-Come-Ing
Oh and is it me or is our hero looking vary small right now?
I totally read that book! I thought the dragons were pretty cool, too.
I’m thinking Nightmare sea creatures… maybe sirens or a kraken or something.
Alex may be just enough of a hero to defeat Nic (with help), but as a ruler… Dreamland is doomed. Doomed, doomed, doomed. While I might trust Alex to implement a plan, there’s been nothing in the last five years that makes me think he’s smart enough to come up with them on his own. To RULE, he’s going to need that ability or simply be a puppet to some more intelligent string-puller.
Well, except for the 4th person to die in “And Then There Were None.” But, then again, they (other survivors), didn’t really think he was dead either… Ah well. I love the castle in the background!
Whoops. I meant the fourth to last person to die. M’kay. I’ll stop spoiling.
I really wish these blogs had “like” buttons to the replies. You guys with the Hobbit and Princess Bride references would’ve gotten a lot of them. LOL
I agree with Scott- no body = no death. That’s how a court of law works, at least. I also agree with the thought that Ganondorf will somehow make a guest appearance. In fact, I’m betting that giant dwarf IS Ganon from the Nightmare Realm in disguise!! 😉
Keywii and those that replied to him/her- I expect a JJ Abrams/Lost like flashback in the near future to explain what happens in between- especially for how Nic comes back, if he does (I’m willing to admit Scott could be playing us by agreeing that no body = no death to save up for the more evil villain to come; Mwuahahahahahahahahahahaha). Otherwise, we’ll get some other flashback that fills in the gaps and helps it all to make sense when it’s appropriate to do so.
OMG! I JUST REMEMBERED! In Legend of Zelda Ocarina of time there is a dragon who looks like Nico in the Fire Temple as a boss! He could be Nico!
Approx November of this year.
Now to have both twins as kings.
Would Dan/Orion count as more intelligent string-pullers?
Hey all!
Thanks for all the wonderful comments. You guys ROCK!
Friday’s page is still rendering. So I’ll post in the morning.
Thanks for your patience.
Scott
Wait, the what now?
Why won’t King Alexander release photos of Nicodemus’s body?! And, has anyone ever seen his birth certificate? Was he even BORN in Dreamland?!
Actually, he hasn’t been crowned yet!
And since there are still 8 chapters left, I think Alex will have a chance to be even more heroic than he has been so far. Gotta admit, most of the props for this last scuffle go to Nastajia!
“Just a flesh wound!”
I’m wondering who the green-haired cutie with her back turned in the foreground is. 🙂
*Waits for a picture and finds out that it’s ironically some kind of troll-thing* x3
I approve!
Also, King’s Quest fans… go to tsl-game.com. Very neat stuff.
These replies don’t usually become political – it made me smirk.
Has Bognok always been so huge? When I compare it to this it looks like he’s grown significantly! http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/page-687/
Nic’s probably already at the villian’s spa. rechargin’ for revenge!!
That’s a dude, dude.
The list starts there, but Dan can only communicate with Dreamworld through his brother or through the magic pouch. Orion I could see going down Nic’s path. He’d start as an aide or counselor, but over time, start manipulating Alex ‘for his own good’. (Orion has already pushed Alex off a cliff for more or less that very reason. Anything else would only be a matter of degree, not of kind.) Then he’d get tired of going through the effort manipulating Alex takes and go for something a little more direct.
Way ahead of you. I’ve been following it ever since it was still KQ9.
I wouldn’t be too sure…it looks like they’re wearing a corset…
Yeah but Alex certainly held his ground and put up a good fight before Nick got the better of him.
Guess I’ve figured it. He must be growing every time he hits someone with his magic Mace of Loyalty (+5 Strength, -8 Wisdom, Steals Size.)
In the third panel they still have the same height difference.
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-16/page-1273/
anybody else thinking of osama?
20 bucks Nicodemus comes back as a Nightmare and is 100x tougher. xD
Duuuude, this comic just keeps getting better and better. Thumbs uuup~!
So in the time between this and Ocarina of Time, Nicodemus lost his legs, several fingers, his wings, his sapience, grew a new pair of horns, was renamed “Volvagia”, and got a nice helmet?
Long live King Alexander!
Worse. Some drunk merfolk comes around and plants a big one on Nick’s kisser…
*Like
I don’t see Felicity anywh… oh, right. The treasure.