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Hey all…
Another day. This 3 days a week thing is kind of hard for me to keep track of. I never know what days I’m updating. It’s so much easier 5 days a week.
🙂
Hopefully soon I’ll be back to my regular schedule.
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I want to remind you all that IDW is handling my book sales now.
They have a store (if you can’t find the books in regular stores) as well as the toys too.
They’re putting some specials on too. So stop by…
http://www.myworthwhilebooks.com/cat-blue-dream-studios.cfm
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In other news…
We got another mention the other day from the fabulous Brigid Alverson over at the School Library Journal.
http://www.schoollibraryjournal.com/article/CA6655913.html?industryid=47060
I’m in wonderful company with the likes of Red String, Girl Genius, and Penny and Aggie.
Thanks Brigid!
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Also…
Cameron and his Dinosaurs hit comic shops yesterday. I think they hit regular stores in a few weeks.
But it’s a whopping 176 pages of Dinosaurs vs. Robots. And lots of fun for kids.
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And finally…
I met Colleen Doran in San Diego at Comic Con last year. She’s such a great person and an incredible talent.
She does the comic A Distant Soil (among many other projects).
Well she emailed me yesterday to let me know that A Distant Soil is now online.
So…
Go take a look. She’s been working on this book for…um…I think 20 years now?
It’s epic.
A WARNING!
It’s NOT kid friendly (it’s probably a PG to PG13 story) so please use proper discretion.
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Have a wonderful weekend….and see you all on Monday!
Scott
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So when Alex masters flying he will fly out there and read it? Interesting, and worth staying up so late. *drops dead*
We put our tablet in a place where horse-bodied centaurs would find it tricky to access, but things that can fly, like huge dragons or something, could easily access…
hehe, it this ain’t a task for our hero, ALex, I dunno.
I guess the Princess Bride Dragon never figured that the centaurs would hide their tablet there in all his 400 years of rule.
This is indeed a task for Alex. Does anyone agree with me that he’s afraid of heights?
And Scott, please get better soon. ^_^
Wow…Better start flapping those arms Alex XD
Thing is… wouln’t he or anyone else in the group have to learn the old language aswell if they’re to read the tablet?
I really hope he tries to climb it the old fashioned way. Would be funny to see.
Well, there are two other people who might be able to go there and read it. One is Alex’s little cousin. The other, maybe, is Nichole.
Hey guys.
Well…this is Dreamland. ANYONE can get there with some help.
It’s not inaccessible to the Centaurs obviously.
The way I figure it…it’s just a smart place to put it. As it’ll be left alone.
I’m sorry…the sky was all purple, there were people running everywhere
Well…put it in a place that anyone who flies – like maybe a gigantic, ruby-red DRAGON? – can get to it?
0.o
You’d better get there first, Alex…
There’s never a flying ship when you need one.
“THAT is the rock you will jump off, not that silly cliff we were at earlier.”
I finally got some peace and quite to write something.
I somehow really enjoyed the last few pages, especially because Alex was being his usual silly self. He’s just a joy to read! I understand why he has to undergo some character changes, as this will probably provide more possibilities for the story to develop. However, I honestly like Alex’s character like this. He makes a nice and fresh change to all those dark and emo characters that seem to populate multimedia culture these days. So I hope he doesn’t become too serious.
On the “rock that tells stories” discussion: I don’t know if that’s the best place to hide the secret history. After all, the Centaurs appear to have a hard time getting to it, whereas Nicodemus can easily fly up there and destroy it… it’s a prominent location and easily visible – and the Centaurs will not be able to protect it at all if there’s an air attack (which is very likely, since Nicodemus and the air pirates are working together, right?). I don’t know. It doesn’t seem a good place to hide the secret history to me. But I might be alone with this notion.
No…you’re not alone apparently…ha ha.
I created this to be more of a “carrot” for Alex to reach for. SOmething he has to work towards.
In my mind…it was never of any consequences to Nicodemus up until a few days ago.
Before that…it was just rumor. Myth. There were no tablets he knew of. Just heard whispers…
That’s the way I saw it at least.
And I have to agree with some of the others that it’s entirely possible Nic’ wouldn’t think to look there anyway. They’re hiding it in plain sight. -Which works even better if they know how to act like they haven’t read it and let Ole Nic’ think they don’t question his rule. He’d figure it’s hidden somewhere out of the way, like the dwarven or merpeople’s tablet.
Oh, wow.
I’ve been following A Distant Soil for over 8 years; the comic stores near me flat-out stopped carrying it, and I couldn’t find it anywhere. It’s one of my favorite series. A big thank-you for posting that up!
I agree with you guys, it has to be one of the highest points in the area too.. No matter.
I wanted to point out something I noticed in yesterday’s comic. It looks like both of Orion’s right hooves are on the ground. When horses trot, they lift the front hoof of one side, and the back hoof of the other. The hooves on one side will be in the air at the same time, but it would be brief and just as the hind foot hits the ground and the front hoof is being picked up. When they walk, they have three hooves on the ground most of the time. Here’s the walk and the trot.
I hope I’m not nitpicking. I love the comic and your work is amazing, but I have noticed you tend to fix things people don’t even notice until you point them out. 😛
A crazy idea just occurred to me… Does Nick ever visit the mer-people? If he does, does he … turn into a dragonfish?!?!?!
Lurker, he visited the Mer-people back in book two.
Tehalihwa’khwa—- what a mouthfull.
An island in the sky… Over a beautiful canyon. Truly inspired, Scott. Love it.
COuple thoughts.
1) Tehalihwa’khwa came from my research for Native American words. I think literally it’s Singing Rock.
2) I think I need some birds flying through that top frame.
Scott –
Glad to see you back at work; doing what you love is the best therapy.
As I’ve gathered from your comments, it looks like Alex is going to be starting on a course which will make him more pro-active, and more in charge of his own fate.
I don’t know if you’ve ever explained all the details of his life at home, but it looks like you’ve set him up with someone who can provide him with a role model for his own personal growth, something he seems to have been lacking. I’d say Alex seems to have all the potential character attributes necessary to fully become the hero Dreamland – and Nastajia – need, but until now he’s lacked the drive and the judgment to put them all together effectively.
Watching that happen is going to be interesting…
Just as it will be seeing how Nicole copes with her new world.
I hope they have some kind of security or imaginative traps up there. It seemed like a safe spot to me at first, then I remembered that almost everyone in Dreamland can fly, lol.
Yeah, birds are deffinatly missing from the picture. Maybe some lizards on the ground too 😛
I wish your wife a very Happy Mother’s Day! and to everyone else who has a mom and/or wife, HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!! to you too. 😉
Stretch OUT with your feelings, your eyes can deceive you.
Oh, sorry … Wrong adventure.
I disagree. I think that’s a very stupid place to put it.
Let’s see… The flying gargoyle-things from the Nightmare realm can fly, the pirates on their flying ship could fly… oh, and Mr. Bad*** himself – Nicodemus – the one who is desperate to destroy all the tablets, he can fly too!
Also, it’s on the highest point in the region, with a sort shrine around it, and very hard to miss. And if the centaurs wanted to protect their tablet after the enemy discovered it… Well, let’s just say they’d need some means of flying themselves.
There are really only three ways to effectively protect the tablets from a determined flying dragon: 1) disguise it as something else, 2) hide it out of sight, or 3) have it in an inaccessible location. Underwater might count as I doubt Nicodemus or many nightmare minions could get to it easily. But this is not so difficult.
Also, that toothpick-shaped stone column looks very fragile! I’d think a strong wind or a bolt of lightning could bring the whole thing down. That would not be good for the tablet, obviously.
This is what we call “hiding in plain sight”.