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Hey all.
Well…for a short time…we made it to first place on the Topwebcomics site.
Thank you all.
Unfortunately…only 10% of you voted.
So we’ll see how this week goes…if I’ll be able to do this regularly. Making these custom desktops takes a bit of time.
This one was a combination of two of the most requested desktops from yesterday. Nastajia in the new outfit…and Aethos.
I made it at 1920×1200. So you fellow widescreeners can enjoy as well.
🙂
Please let me know who’s next. Feel free to repeat yesterday’s requests (minus Nastajia for a bit) and I’ll happily fulfill the most popular request.
Thanks again and hope are enjoying these pages.
Scott
See? Even Orion agrees that the new look is better! 😀
I have voted again. I liked the pic, though i still think the previous one was my favorite \m/ ^^ \m/ post #1?
lol so close ^^
not like it really matters in the end. If it makes you feel better, when I hit submit, there were no posts, by the time it refreshed afterwards, there were two.
I’ll make sure to try and vote more. My bad!
I’m still seeing Monday’s picture it looks like. I’ll have to wait a bit more til the picture gets updated I guess.
I love the look she’s giving him in the last panel… 🙂
I still saw The first one as well…not fair.
I vote again for a romantic scene.
Oh, he’s just bringing back the sword. And here I was hoping that he had news of Felicity’s health. Oh well. I guess the sword is nearly as important. ^_^
How about a ‘family photo’ of everyone as children?
Including Felicity.
Or a montage of the kids. that way Kiwi can me show larger.
Just my $0.02 worth of a sugestion.
Thanks!
The facial expressions on this page are great.
That last panel really bugs me though. It looks like Orion’s practically pushing the edge of the blade into Nastajia as he hands the sword to Alex.
Heh… Orion made Princess mad by interrupting her alone time with Alex… on a side note, for some reason, the wallpaper doesn’t work for me; it gives me a “file is unknown” error message. It’s still a great wallpaper, just wish I could use it(I’m using Windows XP, btw)
Hi there! Enjoying the story as always. As a stupid directionless guy, I know what Alex is going through. ;P Also voted. My idea for the pic: I like the idea of a portrait of the kids (Alex, Nastajia, Paddington & Kiwi), maybe with Nastajia’s parents in there as well? In the palace, possibly, or with the elf city behind them? Or just in front of a wall. :>
by the gods… my heart actually skipped a beat when I saw Casual Nastajia in the wallpaper… keep offering wallpapers like that and you’ll be #1 for a long time.
Me like! 🙂
Nice one! And as long as there are no edges/frames around it, a WS desktop can be easily cropped to SD, but the other way round is usually much harder!
Thanks for doing this great image!
NOW EVERYBODY THAT READS THIS COMIC GO VOTE!
I think my vote is on Paddington full-body. (Perhaps a cool dance pose?)
Second vote would definitely be Felicity full-body. 🙂
what a flirt, that Orion ^^
Does anyone else think that Orion is holding that sword a little too… easily? It’s a sword, it’s big and metal and very very heavy, and yet he’s holding it forward with one hand — two fingers even — without any difficulty or falling over!
Doh! – down to #3, now. Still, in the top 5, though…
We vocal few here are a clear minority – probably most people read the comic and move on without even reading your blog, so they don’t know what they are missing by not voting.
So, I think 10% is actually pretty good. The trick is to keep that 10% voting, and I think your desktops should do that, so kudos to you for great marketing of your brilliant comic!
I like how you made the thumbnail into a vote button.
Now, put it in a banner between the comic and your blog with large text saying something like:
“Click to get this cool wallpaper” with smaller text underneath saying:
“(and, incidentally, vote for this cool comic)”
That might get you another 5 or 10%!
Basically, if your vote button is below the next/previous controls then you lose the major portion of your audience who are mostly in it just for the story.
Heck, a lot of your readers may be young kids who won’t understand the importance of marketing to help the creator, anyway – I hadn’t considered that…
I still think you should do one of the cities (Gardenia Astoria Ashendel) but I also think a full body shot of Paddy would be cool.
Kiwi… and umm… Kiwi… With some Kiwi too! ^.^
i love the colouring on this page, it gives it a very mystical feel (btw read all 902 pages today, i want more)
Ok, I have to say this after reading this page. I have to agree with Orion, Nastajia looks more beautiful in this new outfit. If it sound weird of a girl to say that, just keep in mind that I’m a lesbian, and, anyone who thinks badly of me because of that can just kiss my ass 😛
As far as IE not being able to display your page… I noticed that if I hit the back button I get your page fine. I’m guessing something’s loading additionally that’s making IE unable to open the web page and abort the operation. Because once I click OK and hit back, I get your page clean and clear. Sorry if you’ve already addressed this.
I really like your comic. I’ve got a whole slew I follow and am glad GWS links you cause that’s how I found you.
Okay, centaur fashion. I can see them being able to easily lend Nastajia a blouse, but where did they find a skirt that would fit a “two-legs” like her? We’ve seen centaur ladies (maredemoiselles?) wearing outfits that were long in the front, but a bit too… ah, too open in the back for a princess to wear in polite company.
Well, I’ll keep voting. =)
Personally, I’d love a “background” shot; of Aethos, or the mer-village, perhaps the city…Doesn’t matter. But I figure your people pour a LOT of time into them, It’d be cool just to have a “background” shot. But hey, that’s just me. =)
Dustin
Great wallpaper design – it’s nice to have an image of Nastajia looking relaxed and happy. She hasn’t had many moments like that in the story so far.
Orion seems to be in a much better mood than he was when he left Alex. I wonder what passed between him and the sword.
i ADORE the voting incentive wallpaper! too awesome for words! this is a nice gift for your readers, really. and i agree, ashendel would be my next choice. ashendel with alex and his friends playing there as kids – or…the scene where they met the king and queen as kids, as a wallpaper!
i vote daily anyway, but the wallpapers are working. i think the people who are not voting don’t bother reading your posts and are just following the story. they may be non-english-mother-tongue folks who don’t ever read the posts below webcomics – and the only way these people will vote is if the TWC button is at the top right, prominent. it’s such a hassle looking for it, you’d have to be super-dedicated to voting to get that far. i remember you said it was an html thing you couldn’t easily resolve, but i suggest putting it above or below the jukebox…or as a top navigation button.
We just need a desktop of all the people.
I’m in the Felicity fanclub, though I also wouldn’t mind seeing a scary and awesome wallpaper of Nicodemus.
Thank you all.
And good morning.
I’m so glad you like the new wallpaper. I think it came out pretty good too.
🙂
As for the IE issue. I see it too. And it’s ADSDAQ. We’re waiting for them to get back to us to fix it.
Thanks
Scott
Love the page & desktop!
my vote is Teddy Bears
Well, I really liked how the first one looked, but I’m on a widescreen Mac, so it just wouldn’t have worked, but this one’s nice. So, I’ll vote, as long as it’s a widescreen image. 🙂
The facial expression in panel three is so cute on Nastajia, she needs to smile more! Well there goes our “Orion is working for Nick and he steals the sword” Idea. What, admit it, you must have thought of that! Well, at least I did! Sorry Scott, I’ll try to vote more 🙂
Very nice desktop. I voted!!!
Felicity desktop, please.
a widescreen, finally! 😀
love the sequence u’re showing in ur comic atm^^
Got my vote in. Felicity would be a great Wallpaper. Great work, Scott. Always Top-Notch.
Is Orion really handing Alex the sword with Nastagia between Alex and the blade?
Ok People VOTE!!! please tell me how a comic that updates 80% less than Dreamland beat us?!? don’t get me wrong, I like 2Kinds, but come on… Scott works hard to update DAILY, and deserves a vote per visitor per page! it that happened no one could compete 🙂
You got 100% of my votes, Scott! And both wallpapers look great. I had to set up a separate file for my collection of DLC Wallpapers. Looking forward to adding more.
That moonlight filtering through the leaves is a wonderful effect. I love the environments of Dreamland. I have great respect for your designers. From what little rendering I’ve done in blender I can tell their work is amazing. And how you orchestrate it all and make it work together is awesome.
i personally liked Nastajia’s hair up in her usual pony tail… but she looks absolutely *gorgeous* in today’s desktop wallpaper <3
and her expression in today’s comic is so sweet~~
OH MY GOD……..PEOPLE HAVE YOU SEEN TOPWEBCOMICS! NUMBER 2 NUMBER 2 NUMBER 2 NUMBER 2!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Whoo! We’re number 2!
Nice desktop. ^_^ I have a couple widescreen computers, too, so that’s nice for me. I’m not on one right now, but I have a couple.
Requesting Felicity. 🙂
Nastajia in Aethos has officially become my new wallpaper and will stay there for a long time. 😀 Nick looking absolutely bad@$$ and scary would make a great wallpaper.
Orion, don’t flirt with a man’s girl when he’s down!
Voted.
I’d like to see a background set with all the major cast members (Alexander, Daniel, Kiwi, Paddington, Nastajia, Felicity, and Nicole.) dressed down and hanging around a pool or oasis/water fall. Dream land and real world characters mixed up. Like a cast photo.
If only 100% would vote, we could all just go there a few times and win every month!
Hey Scott, have you thought about putting a Comments link above the comic so it draws some attention? It’s possible to scroll down to the bottom of the comic and not see what you say let alone the comments link below that. Not only will that increase the chance that they’ll scroll down and maybe Vote but could increase readership participation. That’s one of the reasons I like coming here (not just the incredible art, story and art) but that there is such an active comments group.
I’d hate to think that 90% of the people that come here don’t read these comments and therefore have no idea what a great group of really hoopy froods we all are!
Maybe a link to vote in the “other places to see scott” section too.
Oh, and yeah, awesome work on todays page, especially the faces!
I agree with the people who have said a group picture of when they were little. 🙂
Great work, Scott ^_^ This is the first comic I read every day
I don’t understand why people don’t vote. It’s not hard and takes no time. I do it everyday.
Good thing Alexander got that sword back before he woke up again, eh?
kiddies! I agree with the kiddies idea..let’s see the youngins
Yeah! The kids would be good, complete with Felicity and Nichole. Would it hurt to add Daniel although he doesn’t dream nor went to dreamland?
I’d like to see something with the characters that you have from when they were children.
He’s such a flatterer. ^///^ (But he DOES speak the truth!)
Voted. So nastajia could easily pass for a centaur, eh? How about those ears?
Orion: “Add two more legs and a tail, and you could easily pass for one of us. In fact, we could schedule the surgery right now. The merfolk have plenty of extra legs kicking around…”
has anyone noticed that alex is named after Alexandr the great who was a greek conqueor? I think that there is more than a fluke that the tablets are also greek?
There’s a factory somewhere in Dreamlands that just swaps out body parts of various animals to make all the different species.