Page 1763…
Happy Monday!
This is the end of Chapter 20! Also the end of Book Seven!
Look for a Kickstarter in the next few weeks.
Now… as for Chapters 21 and 22 (Book Eight) which wraps the entire season up…
I will get you more information on that before the end of the year. I am working on it and have some big news to tell you all.
Please be patient. Check in here often (as well as my facebook and twitter feeds) for more info.
This is a bittersweet time as I’m excited to be finishing an 11 year endeavor of writing and illustrating a daily comic, but also sad that it will be over in one year.
Thank you all who’ve been following and supporting me and my family all this time. I hope you enjoy this last year of pages as everything comes to a conclusion.
Have a wonderful week. And I hope I can bring you new pages VERY soon.
Scott
Thanks for 11 years of greatness Scott!
It’s truly going to be a bittersweet year, thank you so much for this awesome story!
And then Dan die in dreamland , killed by Nicodemus, and the stories end sadly.
Nicole would cry until the end of her life, and won’t have any babies.
so. he is ready? bugger that. ready for a good old “wet-me-pantsies”, thats what he is. 😉 scott i do exactly know a feeling like this. i’ve had a time of writing and in that time i’ve produced the one an only opus magnum i ‘m ever gonna do.
No, you’re not ready. You’re still awake!
Best wishes for the next year! Can’t wait for the MOVIE!! 🙂
Whooo hoo! Jump in with both feet!!!
And can’t wait to hear the good news.
That’s one brave guy knowing that he’s likely to encounter a dragon on the other side!
Scott, thank you so much for sharing the story of Dreamland with us. It’s wonderful!
After 11 years,what’s next?
Congrats on the chapter end, and – whoo-hoo – the end is in sight!
It’s a very strange feeling to know something you’ve worked so hard on for so long is coming to an end soon. However, it just means you get to move onto the next project. And I can’t wait to see what that may be!
The return of the King !
Your awesome Scott. Cant wait for the next chapter and cant wait for the news you have for us.
Well, that was easy.
Nicole, you have such a way with nerds. I mean words.
Scott, do you really have to stop writing? you could do a something else, or look deeper into dreamlands history.
of course, there’s still a year till you’re done. maybe you’ll think of something else you can do.
Thank you Scott for this wonderful comic series you have put together. I hope you are successful the rest of your life!
That is so adorable and yet so sad!
Also a bit sad to hear the comic’s ending, but it’s had a very good run, and been delightful all the way through.
Before the series comes to an end,who here wants to see Alex and Nastajia reunited?
Maybe a wedding for those two? Now for the difficult question…
Should Alex stay in Dreamland with Nastajia and friends…or…
Nastajia remain on Earth with Alex?
He is so not ready to go to dreamland…
On the other hand, he’s probably about as ready as he’s going to get.
And he doesn’t even have to pack.
*jumps up and down with hand in the air* No pressure, Scott, but if the two aren’t reunited by series end, well I honestly think I will no longer be a fan. I made the same threat to another author if it makes you feel any better.
I’ve asked myself that same question and I am torn between which answer is ultimately better. But as long as they are together, I love the idea of rubbing it in Nievene’s face that they are together forever in whichever land. That or a fish feast.
I’m quite certain I’ll cry when we reach the end. Dreamland is the first website I visit everyday for the past 5 years. Thank you, Scott, for your unwavering dedication to this project and all of the awesomeness you have created.
Dan’s ready, I’m ready, and now we have to wait!?!?!?!?!
But seriously, Scott, it will be sad to have the Dreamland story come to an end. But at the same time, part of me can’t wait for the resolution I know you have planned. I’m so glad my daughter stumbled upon this comic ?? years ago. Whatever you do post DL you’ll have three devoted fans watching and eagerly anticipating.
One request, please, please, please send Nicole to Dreamland just once for a big Felicity hug 🙂
And yes, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a Dreamland movie!!!
When will Chapter 21 start?
Thank you all!
I am finishing up many things for the movie (Not Dreamland) and will hopefully announce something on that before the end of the year.
Meanwhile… I’m beginning the script for Chapter 21 and working on finding a solution for the art.
I will not be able to produce the art for the last book. But since it’s CGI… the art should HOPEFULLY be consistent with the previous 1700 pages.
Wish me luck!
I think that Niviene would be happy for them if they got to be together for the rest of their lives. 🙂 Her concern has not been “ruining Alex and Nastajia’s relationship” but “ensuring that the True King has the throne.” She just happens to think that a relationship is worth sacrificing in the name of getting the Kingship back on track. Heck…I’d bet she’d be the first in line to help Alex find a way back to Dreamland so he could be with Nastajia and his friends. It would open the door for Merlin to return (if he could wake from the tree without dying). 😛
Oh dear! That seems like a big complication to work through. Good luck!
technotreegrass, you honestly think Scott isn’t going to have Alex and Nas reunited? Of course they’ll be reunited. Scott likes happy endings. 🙂
I agree with Julie, Niviene wouldn’t mind at all if Alex and Nastajia were together. She just wants the true king on the throne. The two love birds can be together all they want as long as they can find a way to do it that doesn’t damage the kingship.
Yes!! Nicole to Dreamland!
There always seems to be a break between books/chapters to prepare the art to come. We will survive the wait. No matter how hard it seems right not. 🙁
I came to this comic for the Dwarves. When i started reading, i saw how old the comic was and had thought it was already completed! I accidentally skipped to THIS page and thought it was the ending. Guess now i have to start waiting… Go Dwarves go ! Baruk khazad !
Oh Scott, I’ve been following for about four years, and can’t wait to share this with my kids when they are old enough to understand it. (They’re 2 right now…I live in the land of Storybots and other things like that.) After reading the comments, it’s nice to know that I can look forward to the end of the story and it not be something abrupt. In another webcomic I’ve read for years, it just ended one day. I’m talking no warning, no real ending, just DONE. It was heartbreaking because I had invested about seven years of reading it and supporting it. And it was just gone. Even worse, it’s been replaced by something half as good in its place.
Long story short (too late!), I truly appreciate your comic, and I’m looking forward to the coming chapters.
I’m totally excited to see him in Dreamland!!! Very blessed for you Scott. Very sad this is ending!!!
Perhaps you should do a sequel, or an expansion of some kind. Even if we still have about another year of this, it’d be a pity to see it end.
Scott, What on earth will you do after Dreamland is done? What will you do with all the free time? I have an idea… START A NEW COMIC!!!! well, not right away of course, but eventually. You can’t let all of us fans go! I know you can’t. And you know we’ll read anything you decide to write… maybe a sci fi to get away from fantasy for a while?
Repent! The end is nigh!
Or? 🙂
I am super happy to hear that you have got a movie contract, Scott!
I hope it becomes a great success so you can finally get some ROI on all your efforts with TDC and all your other great stories.
Looking forward to see how it all goes!
Now – break a leg!
Firstly, Scott, THANK YOU for this amazing and engaging story. I have just blasted my way through from start to the current page in just two days (during work even!). It was truly like a book I could not put down. Hopefully I will be able to get hard copy of the entire story for my daughter. I just know she’ll love it.
As for the end of the story; you always have side stories, histories, origin stories… the possibilities are endless in this rich and captivating world you have created.
Again, thank you. I look forward to what happens next.
I so badly wanted to hit a “Like” button when I read that you were going to share this with your daughter. 🙂 I sent the first five books to my cousin’s little girl for her birthday last year. I need to check back with them to see if she’s had a chance to read them at all…and I need to get her book 6 (and book 7 soon apparently :)).
It has been a wonderful comic so far. Thank you all, so much, for sharing your talents.
What I envision is a weekly animated series of them as kids…. Each episode starts with Alex waking up, and Dan asking about his adventure. then ends with some wisdom from Dan as he is writing in his journal.
Okay, wow. I just woke up from the craziest, but supremely awesome dream last night, and I think I should share it.
Basically, I dreamed about Dreamland getting put to video. It was basically the first chapter (not a canon first chapter mind you) that was crudely animated through an updated version of your rendering software. It didn’t look quite right as a CG animation. Like I said, it was crude, but it was done really well.
Seriously. I can’t do this dream justice. Partially because I was a raging fanboy for the course of the dream, and it sort of amplified how I felt about what I was seeing by a factor of about 100.
Also, the dream kind of Mixed up Christopher with the Strassers, who make another webcomic I read called Chicken Wings. They’re Austrians. My fanboyish nature in the dream basically presented you as two bronzed gods, Chris. I’m serious. My dream was utterly awesome, but equally cheezy. Oh, you should have heard some of the campiness in the dialogue.
This dream had it all. Nicodemus didn’t just fight Alexander in my dream. Another good dragon showed up just for effect. There was even a sort of Firefly aspect to it, as though you were standing on the ground craning your neck trying to see the fight through the tops of the trees as it raged all across the land.
Also, I sometimes dream in color. Sometimes it’s grainy pastels, or just grainy, washed-out 8mm video. Not this time. I dreamed in completely vibrant, gorgeous color that was in such detail, I could see the individual pixels on the LCD screen I was watching the video on.
That’s right. I wasn’t actually in Dreamland. I was dreaming that I was basically having a fangasm as the ultimate Dreamland fanboy.
I’m serious. For this dream, I wish I could have invited all of you into my head for this experience. Oh, there’s on way it which it didn’t really hold true. I’m normally not a raging fan of anything, so there weren’t any movie references. It was pretty much just all Dreamland.
Ah, I’m starting to ramble because the details are beginning to fade. Let me get this last part out before I forget.
The dream even touched on Alex and Nastajia’s romance. It was even G-rated, and appropriate to the comic. It was also equal parts romantic and campy. The line delivery was ridiculous, but it was still amazing. I don’t know if such a thing even exists.
So, yeah. This will go down as one of my more memorable dreams I’ve had in awhile. I really wish you guys could have been there.
Or in hindsight a little more like 3 years… But it was worth it, and now I get to read the whole thing!