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Hey all…
I hope today answers some more questions as to the relationship between Native Americans and Centaurs.
Again…I wanted to thank everyone for their opinions and information on Native American culture and how my words and comic can be viewed in different light by different people.
I hope today’s page sheds some more light on where I’m going with all of this.
It was not my intention to make a politcal statement about Native Americans. I (as many others before me) have simply just been fascinated by the culture and wanted to include that culture into my fantasy story.
So while I again openly welcome any and ALL comments on this site (and the forum)…please keep in mind that my interests go no deeper than a kid-like fascination with “Indians” and the noble people the Native Americans can be in literature, history, and of course…in Dreamland.
If you would like to discuss things in depth…please click on the Forum (link is on top) and go to the “CONTROVERSY CORNER” and start a post. Everyone there is really nice…and you all can argue for days.
🙂
And now…to the really cool part.
We got our TRADING CARDS IN!!!!!!
See?
I did some sketches on the backs of a couple (seen in the pic) to test it out. They’re great!
They’re thick. Glossy on the front. And have a wonderful SKETCH AREA on the back!
Now…the question is. How do I get them all to you???
I need your help.
I am bringing these to San Diego Comic Con.
I’d like to do something special with them.
SHould I do any of the following?
1) Give away X amount a day of a particular character?
2) Give out a pack of 10 for every purchase?
3) Raffle them?
4) Sell them individually?
What?
Also…what about all of you who can NOT come to Comic Con?
I want everyone to get one. What do you suggest?
Help me here. I’m up for anything. These are just too cool to have to myself (Brendan and Logan got the first ones. They are doing their own sketches on the back).
Looking forward to hearing your thoughts.
Oh. Also. I will be doing some more detailed versions for charity. I’m choosing the charity now. I’ll also be calling on my fellow artists to join in the fun.
So you’ll have a chance to bid on Dreamland cards with other artists work on them. SHould be fun.
Scott
Sounds like Nicole or Dan can use the bag as their own “sword necklace” to get to dreamland with Alex here.
Well, maybe both brothers can dream now.
I’d like to see him explain to Nicole how it will have mysteriously appeared on his person when he wakes up.
whatever happens, will be interesting.. 😀 and now bout those cards.. they look SWEET!! 😀 but yes.. getting them out to people is a problem.. XD *DING! Lightbulb lights up* hey.. how bout putting them with a pre-order or something of book four! :D:D:D that way, its like a two for one deal! gives you time to do the drawings and whatnot, and then people can clamor for what they want!! when time comes, ding! happy happy! 😀 XD who else here thinks that might work? and please don’t let this comment somehow slip into the void.. XD
Okay…usually, I’m waiting for Alex to fall asleep and see what’s going on in Dreamland. Now I’m waiting for him to wake up and see what ensues…
I agree with Ahadi. I can’t wait to see what happens when he wakes up.
Ooh. This… This is interesting. I’ve been dying for a chance at a Nicole/Felicity reunion… But then, Scott’s been a master at keeping me on my toes. 😛 I’m definitely on pins and needles to see how this goes
Yeah – Dan comes to Dreamland!!
I KNEW something like this might appear! I didn’t know when or if it would, but I knew that it might! Okay, that sounded better in my head. Anyways, I always thought that it would be really cool if other adults could come to dreamland as well, and I don’t believe I am the first person to think of it. Anyways, who wants to bet that he’s going to let Nicole use it to see (Felicity? Felicia? I can’t remember which) so she will regain her will to live?
1) This means Dan might get to Dreamland, and even Nicole, who can come and save Felicity.
2) I’m unlikely to ever get to an American convention, so I’d just be pleased if they also would be available in the store or something. With or without sketches.
AAAAH!!!! OMG! DAN! YAY! I’m super tired and super excited now! 😀
I probably have already said this (along with thousands of people haha) but I absolutely ADORE the lighting contrast in these last few panels. The textures are more matte then the earlier chapters (don’t know if you changed that, but it looks far better). Along side Nastajia’s new look which adds darker features to contrast her light physique.. Well, it looks amazing! I’m really glad you continue working on this all the time and I only wish I could go to the con 🙁
I’m rooting for Nicole to see Felicity again. It may very well be the only thing that will save the poor cat-girl’s life.
As for the trading cards – why not give them to people with the books or statues they buy. You can change the price for orders including the trading cards (even though I think you probably won’t do that, since you’re just too nice). Another idea that just popped into my mind is to auction them (and donate the surplus money to charity). But maybe people won’t buy them if you do.
I wish I knew of a good way to suggest getting those cards out – I’d love them, but the next con I’m making is Dragon Con – and only as a Volunteer – can’t afford cons otherwise.
Give it to Daniel!
Give it to Daniel!!
Give it to Daniel!!!
Something else: the vote banner seems to be not working. Or is that just me?
TWC links in the daily post not working. You might want to check them. – Voting can still be done from the site panel, or directly at Topwebcomics.
Looking forward for more story – this is getting very interesting and a lot more personal.
No, no, he can’t give it to Daniel. Not yet. There’s a reason Daniel doesn’t dream.
Wow I can’t belive controversy over that. My only real question was that centuars are from Greek mythology.
And the explanation is continued…it’s all good. ^_^
ARGH! I want to go to ComicCon so bad! I couldn’t find you last year and my husband got impatient with my looking. Your trading cards look great!
as one of you’re fans from outside the US, I’d love to have some trading cards. I’m just afraid that the shipping will cost way more than I can aford.
But he, they look great.
I started voting for you since this week, and I really like you’re Wallpapers.
Trading cards…
Give out a pack of 10 for every purchase.
Interesting twist with the medicine bag. As for the cards, it’s not realistic that everyone get one, but I’m sure we all appreciate the sentiment. I would suggest giving a card away free with every purchase, a pack of 10 with a purchase over, say, $25.
I vote for 2 and 4 =)
So you buy something, you get trading cards–plus if you want more you can just buy more =P
I think the trading cards should also be a part of the purchase of the book for those of us unable to attend (like you buy the books and the trading cards come with)
ALSO!! Does the bag work in reverse? As in bring people from Dreamland into real life? *wink, wink* lol
Oooooh, “I see what u did thar!” smooth unexplainable plot twist,so delicate that you can miss it and so massive that it will turn around the plot upside down, nice indeed!
How soon are Nicole and Daniel going to be fighting over whose turn it is to use the “dream purse”?
Though that’s assuming it works for both of them… ^Dani could be right that there’s some special reason Daniel doesn’t dream.
Whatever happens, I’m very impatient excited to see what’s coming! 🙂
Grrr, i want a set of those cards. They are very well done. Unfortunately i’ll never be at a convention where you’re at, so i will probably never be able to get them.
I love the najasta desktop, i currently have it on my computer. Downloaded felicity too but i love the other desktop too much to change it. Congrats on the trading cards.
Oh and i just had a thought. If you continue the trading card idea. the next set should have different character photos with character stats on the back of the cards. also you should make cards with the major locations from the story.
For the cards- why not organise an online contest? Something like Barb Jacob’s “be the voice of so and so” or maybe a blogging contest, etc. Another option_ contact schools and offer to give them to the teachers as so they can “reward” good students with them. That is, if you want to increase your readership a lot right now.
As for the “how my words will be viewed”- You know, . In my culture, we say “if you’ve the bee, you hum”, and it was very true: I think that to take offense to being told “we coexist in peace”… is prideful rubbish. Now we now how many people wish to boast about their roots! I extend my heartiest congratulations. Sheesh. I didn’t make so much of a scene when Hercules came out, and if *that* movie openly abused my history and culture to an incredible point. I’m Greek btw, (cue to start protesting the portrayal of centaurs? kidding, kidding).
On a different note, though, I would like to say I am actually rather pleased to understand why you used real NA songs for Orion a few pages back; I saw it as a bit ?!?! at the time, but with this connection it makes awesome sense.
Good Morning all!
Thank you for the wonderful input.
I’m so happy that you are interested in what the Medicine Bag will do. So far…no one has figured it out. 🙂
So that’s good. I’m doing my job right.
Also…I so desperately want you all to have cards. SO please keep these great ideas coming.
Maybe you have local comic shops who would buy sets?
Especially those of you in other countries?
I’ll keep thinking too.
when nicole uses’s it you can guess whats she’ll be doing.
And the plot thickens!! lol! I’m with everyone else on being able to bring Dan or Nicole over, but since you just said “no one has figured it out” I’m clueless again. lol!
Hmm.. as far as the Trading cards, if you really want all of us to have them I hope you ordered a heck of a lot. lol!! The con idea is good, but not for those who aren’t able to go to one. How about selling them directly through the site with a pretend “donation” button?? You can let us know how much you’d be charging for them and for those who can’t make the con they could click on the “donation” button to buy them directly from you. It’s a thought. 😀
Uhhh. Somehow, I don’t think a medicine BAG is used for someone to transport to Dreamland. More likely, it’s used to bring an object placed in the bag to Dreamland. Still it presents some interesting options to communicate with the people in Dreamland. I could be way off though.
Hmm… all this talk of Daniel meeting Nastajia… now a mystical free-ticket-to-Dreamland pouch…
This could be fun. 🙂
I love all the possibilities that are opening up with the medicine bag.
As far as the trading cards, you could always do something similar to what another web cartoonist did recently that I follow. He told his readers that if they donated X amount they could get one of his 6×9 cards with a sketch of their favorite character on them. Just to donate through his paypal, and then tell him in the notes area which one they wanted.
I think something similar would allow your readers to all have a shot at getting at least one of those beautiful cards.
Love the story today … and I love the tie in with Indians/Native Americans!
Good luck figuring out the cards thing … I just wish you could circle the globe and turn back time like Christopher Reeves in Superman and have them available at Heroes can last month … i’d have bought at least 3 sets my self!
:O I am thinking, that somehow the dragon man(cant remember his name) will use the necklace to cut off the ties between human world and dream world, that or the sword will no longer work for him to come back and forth between dream land so he has to use that necklace.
OHHHHHHH…I get it.
Now Nicole and Dan can get in! YAHOOO!
Oooooh, or or or, sorry for double post, Nastajla will use it to go to the human world to see what its like, (like a dream…) Or even, they will use the medicine bag necklace thing like a safety net, when he removes it, he can leave the world instantly so he can fly without having to worry, which means he doesn’t have to be afraid meaning he would be able to fly again.
So Alex goes back to the real world, buys all three Dreamland books and puts them in that bag and goes to sleep, bringing the Dreamland books back to Dreamland the place, creating a paradox. Do I smell award winning mini-series? Ok, I didn’t think so, again it’s just me and too much caffeine too early.
Can’t wait to see what really happens!
😉 Voted again for Dreamland, and some comment area regulars too! 😉
Being Dutch as well, I would appreciate a way to get those… I like the donate get card idea, but then I’d need to donate 10 times… (I want ’em all!) 😉
OHO…. “Anyone” can use??? That’s good news for Dan….
nice. im part aboriginal and i love when people mystify the culture. especially to children! thats what imagination is for!!!
Hmm!! Maybe it will bring someone OUT of dreamland then! Haa I dunno! I thought Dan was comin in! 😛
Hmmmmm… Perhaps if you put something from Dreamland in the bag, it would carry it into the real world to be used by someone adult to come back into Dreamland. Oh well, probably not…
So intriguing, Scott. One can’t help but speculate…
Maybe it will bring the person into Dreamland forever? OR it could bring someone from Dreamland into the real world in someone else’s body? >.> I’m so confused.
does this mean that Nicole will get to see Felicity again? i sure hope so. are you going to put your cards in the online store?
I admit it, I am one of those people that hasn’t posted even though I have been reading for over a year. I have been Voting for a while now, which brings me to my idea. It would be very difficult to get the trading cards to every one of you loyal readers, I agree with the givin gthe cards to the people able to make it to the Con, or in the preorder. But what about tose of us that would love them and not in the states or just not able to get to where you are at. I am only able to make it to the ones in my little section of the midwest, and that is only about once a year if I am lucky. my thought, now that I have kept you waiting forever, is also after the con, put the cards up as a vote incentive in a grouping so that they can be printed and stuck to cardboard or just framed and hung on a wall. If you decide to sell them at the con, then you could sign the card for added effect and that is something to motivate people to try for that instead of just waiting, but ensures any of your veiwers the chance to have them as well. As for the medicine bag, my first thought was that it might be some kind of “herbal” that would induce the hallucination/travel to the realm of Dreamland. there have been a lot of good ideas and this wouldn’t be the first time I have been wrong. you do indeed keep us on our toes. Wonderful Comic. I always look forward to your updates.
What if it works in reverse? What if Natasja or Felicity can come to the *waking* world?
if they did SOMEBODY’s gonna get arrested lol
i like this idea! i wonder if he will let his brother use it so he can finally meet everyone.
I hope Nicole can come in! I want her to see Felicity again!
I don’t think Dan should come in, not yet anyways. There must be a reason why he can’t come in to dream land! I hope it’s something dramatic! 😀
Thanks all.
Keep ’em coming.
first time posting. ok scott, the medicine bag is awesome i will be wondering until the time you reveal its secret just what it will do. for everyone else think of the fourth panel as the start of a new paragraph. it is not directly connected to the lines in panel 3.
as much as we all would like to see Dan get to Dreamland its not going to be that easy. and as for Nicole, her believing in only what she can prove thru science is whats keeping her and Felicity apart (that and being adult). the medicine pouch might be the KEY to getting them together but not the means.
on another topic, when Felicity grabbed the amulet from nico’s hoard it glowed (if i remember right). i dont recall if one of the tablets was supposed to be in the city or not. if not, why was the amulet glowing?….
A centaur is telling them to get his friends to go for a “trip”
Now that I think about it, I don’t think that the medicine bag will allow them to come over to dreamland directly. From what I can tell, it will probably instead alter their perception of reality so that they can find their way there on their own, or something like that.
Hey there! Just wanted to let you know that I came across your stuff a few months ago and am HOOKED! I love reading this!
I’ve been reading your comic for a while now but I’ve never left a comment, and I’d just like to say that I think your comic is ABSOLUTELY FANTASTIC!!!!!! and I’m really looking forward to seeing what happens with the medicine bag!
Hey Scott!
Ive been talking to a few of my local comic shops trying to get them to buy a mass amount of your books and other merchandise to carry in their stores to try and get Dreamland Chronicles our there to a wide audience. And I might have gotten a few bites!
Woo hoo! Great job so far!
Thank you all!
I’m so happy to hear from all of you new and old readers!
Thank you!
Thanks Nathan!
I say offer the trading cards in the store, either as a bonus for ordering a certain amount of stuff, or just offer them as a stand-alone(if I could afford it, I’d definitely go for them myself!)
As far as the medicine bag, I definitely look forward to seeing what it does; if it can bring Stajia to the waking world, that would be fracking hilarious, seeing her reactions to everything Alex sees. Or, it could bring Nicole or Dan to Dreamland… I can’t wait to see what it does.
I SO missed this comic on vacation!! Sorry I missed the debate wars but probably a good thing. I have enough drama going on with friends and now family starting trouble with me. And thanks for breaking my resolve to go to bed early tonight and catching the page in the morning. Hopefully I’ll be too tired to stay up.
P.S. It makes sense that the Native Americans and the Centaurs are friends, since many tribes did put such importance on dreams and the vision quests incorperated elements of dreaming. Centaurs that I read about prior, both in myths and fantasy stories, usually had a Greek or Roman like background and history, so I really like and appreciate the change of pace for them, and the connections between the two.
The way Orion is talking about the medicine bag, it does sound like it can bring adults into Dreamland. But maybe it’s not the bag itself but the contents in the bag. Forgive me, please, if I am going over the “all ages” limit, but the Native Americans and other such tribes around the world have been known to use hallucinogens to better connect with the spirits and other deities of their culture. Perhaps the medicine inside the bag is given to the adult before bed and it opens the capacity of the mind to travel into Dreamland.
Hmm. What stands out to me is that a lot of us have mentioned wanting to see Nicole (or Dan) get to dreamland with this bag… Then Scott mentions that no one’s said what it actually does (whether that’s exactly true or not…). Now I’m really tying my brain in knots trying to figure this thing out…
Thanks, Scott. You’re cooking man, really great. I’m not much on seeing where a plot line is going and am usually pleased that it doesn’t follow what I think; but this time I’m glad that you found a way for Daniel to finally dream and possibly reunite Nicole with Felicity.
deepdark im sure the next few pages will answer all of our questions about who, when, where, we already know how. ahh! my brain cant wait to see what scott has in store for us. (knaws on fingers and toes)
I think Nicole will be the one to use the bag to go to dreamland to bring Felicity back. I also suspect that bag to be good for only one use. I remember that Nastajia’s parents were working on finding a way to get Daniel to dreamland back when Alex was a kid. Maybe something will come of that later.
Excellent page : )
I like the connection between Aboriginal forms of astral travel to Dreamland.
“Medicine” in this context means a charm or fetish. Often things like feathers or shells were kept in the bag. This sort of thing was mainly a Plains/Plateau thing, not really done by the tribes in the other areas.