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This is the last page of the flashback.
With so many questions being asked by you all regarding how the portals work…I’m thinking of adding 2 pages where Alexander actually asks”If they got the portal 2 years ago… why hasn’t there been an attack on Earth already?”
The answer, of course, is that ONE portal doesn’t do anything. You need the Earth one (which Ramses destroyed).
Do you feel the extra two pages are needed? or do you feel it would be redundant?
Thoughts?
Wow … First!!!
I think a simple comment, similar to what you just stated, would suffice for explaining how the portals work.
They are pretty adventurous to take on the Nightmare realm all on their own!
Maybe if you could fit it into one comic, otherwise i agree with IamMac.
p.s. I love your work here and would donate more to the kickstarter if I had any money.
My only gripe about this page is about Titania’s dress it looks too round when she´s flying like there is a metal ring in it.
I think it should be more open and collapsed hanging a little more loosely maybe a little more u or v shaped rather then O shaped.
I think you need to include something. At this point some readers, myself included, have forgotten how these portals work. Something quick and to the point.
+1 to the single page scenario, but two pages would be welcomed as well.
BTW: the flashback was great!
Talking about portals – how did those other nightmare things arrive when Dan had the sword. Perhaps there is another portal somewhere on earth. Also very Stargate regarding the portals to other worlds and even then there was more than one portal on earth. The Mayans could have had one in one of their temples…
I think some question by Alexander to bring out the fact they need portals on both sides would be good, just to make it clear – but then you still have to explain why Abaddon wants the one portal so badly.
• Does he want it to make sure that even if another one is built on Earth, he’ll control where they enter Dreamland?
• Could he build another portal in Dreamland and use it to move his armies where he wants to attack by having his wraiths move it to the target area? (Assuming you can use portals to travel across Dreamland?)
• Does he want to study it to figure out how it works, to use the technology behind it for some evil purpose?
• Has he already figured out a way to use it to invade Earth? (Could the Large Hadron Collider at CERN serve as the other end of a portal system when it’s running? 😉 Or some other device/phenomenon?)
• Could he use the one portal as some kind of inter-dimensional ‘radio’ to broadcast nightmares into this world?
Abaddon went to a lot of effort to get the portal. If they can’t make it work to reach Earth without a portal here, there needs to be a plausible reason he went to so much trouble.
I’m with LuckyWeasel. The nightmare critters have already been shown as having manifested on Earth. Even if one portal isn’t enough for Lord Abaddon to launch an invasion, some method for getting his forces to Earth clearly exists. (The mer-witch’s pool would work for one and if one, they are bound to be others.)
Someone with more time than I have available right now can check this, but weren’t Dan and Alex aware that the bad guys were spying on them prior to the battle with Nicodemus?
They’re going to Nightmare Realm all by themselves?! Are they out of their mind?!
I agree with you regarding a simple comment being all that’s need to remind some readers of the fact, perhaps as a casual mention by another character to Alex as a curt reminder in itself?
Regarding Staj’s parents, I’d say they’re more than adventurous. Extremely brave verging on foolhardy more like, after all they weren’t able to defend themselves all that well against Nicodemus and a ‘simple’ band of pirates, what makes them think they’ll fare any better in the heart of Abaddon’s domain? Okay, so there’s no chance of them being taken by surprise this time, they do have that advantage, but even so… going it alone like that, just the two of them… O_O
Still, got to hand it to them, one thing you could never accuse them of is cowardice. Talk about taking responsibility no matter the cost! O_O
When Alex and Dan was planning the war they were being watched by Wraiths and I believe they don’t need a portal to come to our world. But there was other creatures watching Dan when he said good bye to Nicole after receiving the sword. Now I think they need a portal to get to our world. But I am sure it will be explained at some point…
So what will Alex, Nastajia and company do now after this flashback???
It’s good that you placed Titania’s dress far enough away in the bottom panel or else, I would accuse you of having all your readers look up her skirt.
Shame on you, Scott!
Dang it … I want wings. I WANT WINGS!!!
Also, ask yourself this question: Is your concerns about the portals just explaining the Force? AKA is it necessary? Or are you creating midichlorians?
‘Reason with Lord Abaddon”? They either already know him and think they can get through to him, or they are wildly optimistic. I suspect the latter.
It could have a cage inside of it? Maybe not.
I think it would be nice for a comment, just remind the reader.
Also, I hope we see the Nightmare Realm soon! We’ve had such lush, beautiful landscapes so far…I imagine it’ll be dark and scary! Looking forward to it!
Also, I’m curious to see if Alex can fly in the Nightmare Realm, since kids aren’t supposed to be able to.
She’s probably wearing bloomers. Wouldn’t worry too much about it.
I figured they need a portal to PHYSICALLY appear on earth, in the same manner that Alex, Dan, and Nicole are present. So far, unless I misremember, they’ve been apparitions and unable to directly affect the world around them. It’s a great spy technique, but useless for global conquest.
If the first explanation of the portals occurred several books back, I think a comment or couple of pages would be a fine way to remind everyone. If the explanation is within the last couple of chapters, I don’t think it’s necessary depending on how you look at it. We of the web community have to wait a very long time to see a whole book. Once it’s up online and/or printed in someone’s hand, all it takes is 30-45 minutes to read through a chapter. That makes restating a known fact close together a little redundant in my opinion
I love finally knowing what happened to the King and Queen. So excited to see where this is going to go next.
It’d be nice to not have Alex ask the question but be working it out for himself, along the lines of, “But didn’t they realize that the portal couldn’t work, since you destroyed the one on Earth?”
It’d be nice to see him becoming less clueless and always needing everyone else to fill in the blanks for him.
Hard to tell if people reading this much faster than a page a day would have forgotten the obelisk story by this point. That said, Alex asking a (seemingly) dumb question is, well, the very Alex we all know and love. Should be all right, I guess.
Xaxnar’s question, on the other hand, still needs an answer. Badly.
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Well I didn’t get the 2 portal thing until Scott explained it.
Don’t mind me. I’ma justa herpa-derpin’ along!
I don’t get the whole portal thing
( but I don’t get a lot of things )
yes. If you have to explain it in the comments, you have to explain it in the book.
The problem I see with your explanation is that it is not consistent with the motivations of the characters. If Ramses destroyed the Earth portal, why dud Abbadon desire the Dreamland portal? Why did Seropholous feel obligated to protect the now useless remaining portal? Why did Nastajia’s parents have to recover or destroy it?
Yes.. it needs more explanation, even if there’s an offhand comment like, “Good thing Ramses destroyed the other side of that portal or…”
Frankly, I don’t recall much, if anything about the portal. I do read it once a day (once I caught up several years back). I guess it’s time to go through all the books.
Until you all mentioned it.. it thought it was new.
Abaddon was planning a siege of Earth 3,000 years ago.
Ramses II found out. Destroyed the portal on Earth.
This both stranded his people (including a relative) in Dreamland as well as stranding various Dreamland and Nightmare creatures on Earth (hence stories of vampires, bigfoot, etc)
For 3,000 years, Abaddon has tried and failed to recreate the portal…and to find Seraphopolis to STEAL the portal to REVERSE ENGINEER it.
Until Nastajia’s parents gave them the perfect opportunity to surprise them.
Now… Abaddon has the Rosetta Stone (so to speak) and for the last 2 years… he’s been building (somewhere on Earth) the second portal.
One of the best strips yet man! If only I had thousands of dollars laying around to give you, but I don’t. I might donate $25 toward kickstarter, I just have to find out how, because I my debit card hasn’t been renewed for awhile and I don’t know why. Those bookmarks you were going to offer if you reached $20,000 in funding looked awesome/epic. This comic has been getting better and better both in plot, animation, and well, just plain fun! I hope you’ll keep receiving fitting gifts and ect. for giving the world The Dreamland Chronicles!
YES.
Wow, Scott I think that when you put this into book form it will more sense with the flashback and if you added the part about the reverse engineering even better. Just my 2 cents have a great day.
how did the elves get wings? O.o
and i really want an nick plushy.
Okay I checked back a few days and see you did mention Abaddon needs a working model to build a new one. Wouldn’t hurt to mention it again with the bit about building one on Earth. Which leads to a couple of questions – could Seraphoplis build a replacement for the one that was stolen – and use it to connect to the one Abaddon Is building on Earth? And could Daniel build one if say Alex was able to bring him plans?
Lots of fun stuff to speculate about!
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