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Hi all!
Don’t forget…this weekend, I’ll be at GMX in Nashville! Come say hi!
I did a new painting yesterday.
Another 3 hour watercolor sketch!
There’s more on Ebay here…
Please check them out…
I’m having a lot of fun…and plan on doing several more.
Scott
FIRST?!
enter the lady of the lake. 😀
I just got this image of Nastajia strangling Dan for taking precious sleep time away from Alex.
Oh man, those paintings are pretty impressive. My favourites are the one of Davy Jones and Bela Lugosi as Dracula.
Dang, that tiller looks a lot like one of those electric outboard motors. Clever Merlin. 🙂
Ah, yes, the scene where Arthur receives Excalibur from the Lady in the Lake. Most people do not realize that this is where Excalibur came from, and assume that Excalibur was the Sword in the Stone, but this is not the case. As far as I know, the Sword in the Stone had no name (aside from, you know, “the Sword in the Stone”) and was broken, I believe, by the Black Knight. The breaking of the Sword in the Stone is the reason Merlin took Arthur to the Lady in the Lake to receive Excalibur, and after Arthur’s death (or, in the chronology of the Dreamland Chronicles, “death”) was returned to her.
Graphically astonishing page: The little touches you put in your pages, like the ones that we can look here, are what makes The Dreamland Chronicles the best CG comic in the world. They look real even if the style is so cartoonish.
Great work, Scott.
Maybe the sword should resemble the one Alex uses????
So I just learnt about the Dreamland Chronicles about 3 weeks ago and, after starting at the very beginning, I’m caught up last night and now desperately await the next installment. Let’s just say we’re all lucky it’s daily uploads otherwise things could get a little scary for those around me. My only disappointment is that I’ve not discovered the Chronicles sooner.
Well, in BBC’s Merlin, Excalibur is both the Sword in the Stone and the sword given by the Lady of the Lake.
But considering Merlin’s the same age as, or younger than, Arthur, it’s not accurate to the legends…usually.
I sort of figured that Excalibur would make an appearance.
And in the Camelot series, the sword in the stone got broken, so Merlin went off to get a new sword, and the swordsmith’s daughter was called Excalibur, but Merlin killed them both to get the sword for Arfur, so naming the sword in memory of the daughter, so he wouldn’t forget what he’d done.
There is absolutely no good reason to begin with “FIRST?!” But at least you had something to say after that.
Thanks SharlzG!
And welcome to Dreamland.
🙂
What’s not shown here, is the next image in the book, wherein we see King Arthur paddling furiously to keep up with and catch up to the Lady-in-the-lake who is swimming away at an amazing rate, all the while still holding up the sword as a taunt to Arthur…
Well, that actually depends on which version of the tale you’re reading. There are legitimate versions of Arthurian legend which attribute the name Excalibur to the sword in the stone, while others say Excalibur was the sword from the Lady in the Lake. However, you are right on point about the sword in the stone not being the same sword as was gifted to Arthur by the Lady. 🙂 That point was confused in later tellings of the legends (Le Morte d’Artur for example).
Even so, I think my favorite version of the sword’s tale is from the movie which gave me my second intro to Arthurian legend (my first intro being Disney’s Sword in the Stone). Excalibur is a fabulous film (with my favorite Merlin portrayal of all time). It shows that Excalibur was retrieved from the Lady of the Lake by Merlin to give to Uther Pendragon as a sign of his right to rule. As he was dying, Uther thrust Excalibur into a stone claiming “None shall wield Excalibur, but me!” Later, Arthur ends up pulling the sword from the stone as proof that he is the rightful heir to the British throne. Then, when Arthur is dying, he has Bedevere cast Excalibur into a pool of still water to return it to the Lady of the Lake.
I think that movie provided a successful marriage of the two Excalibur tales. 🙂 It certainly worked to provide a film version of the stories to the general public that would prevent most people from saying “but I thought he got Excalibur this way.”
😀 She pauses every few yards to let him almost get the sword, then takes off again.
🙂 I actually thought of Excalibur early on (Alex pulled his sword from a stone in the tomb of kings…immediately coonjured images of Arthurian legend). I’m just excited that The Lady of the Lake is making an appearance. I didn’t think of her. 🙂
BAHAHAHA!!! Awesome.
Nah…artist renditions of tales they’ve only heard, not seen, aren’t going to be that accurate. Besides, the sword was only ever a necklace in the “real world”. 🙂
I’m sorry, but I keep seeing an old movie:
Arthur: “The Lady of the Lake, [angels sing] her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite, held aloft Excalibur from the bosom of the water signifying by Divine Providence that I, Arthur, was to carry Excalibur. [singing stops] That is why I am your king!”
Dennis: “Listen — strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony. . . .”
I think that we will be coming to the understanding that, like Alex, Arthur wasn’t supposed to have found/received the sword and that Nicodemus had previously tried to usurp the leadership in Dreamland. But his plans were foiled when the Lady in the Lake somehow managed to bring the sword out from hiding to give to Arthur.
But excellent post today.
When I try to click on the “The Becoming” webcomic ad, it either redirects me straight to this page, or leads to Smash comics instead. All the other ads work fine though, even the little ones right under the comic page.
Even better! 😀
The tale i had always heard was Excalibur was given to someone else by the lady of the lake, and for some offense Merlin placed it into the stone until the true king came to claim it.
Hi i just read through the entire archives and this is my first time posting
Welcome, fellow Dreamer!
Thanks to Tomb Raider: Legend, I keep thinking of this scene with the whole issue of sword in the stone/lady of the lake:
Zip: “Now, I don’t get it. Weren’t Excalibur and the sword in the stone the same thing?”
Alister Fletcher: “They were two bloody different swords!”
Lara Croft: “Now really, Zip, that was too easy.”
Many apologies for not commenting in one HECK of a long while, but I just had to pop in to say:
Dan must have mad deciphering powers. Just take a close look at those pages… :p