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Hey all!
Hope you had a great Monday.
I’m just realizing….people HIT eachother a lot in my comic.
Mom smacks Alex. Alex smacks Dan. Nastajia pushes Alex off a rock. And Nicole elbows Dan.
These poor boys. Too much LOVE in this family.
I guess that’s the byproduct of growing up Italian. Getting smacked is a sign of love.
🙂
Hope you continue to enjoy.
Scott
Dan’s being a tad dense now eh?
It’s less of a punch and more a jab…lol! Besides, I think it shows the youth of the characters and their (relative) comfort with each other.
Is it just me or is the sword missing in panel 4?
At least the real world smacking is reletively harmless. Nastajia was rough, but it always makes me laugh, and the smacking is never senseless but always meaningful. Plus I can’t imagine a better way that Nastajia could have handled that moment *evil grin*
Bit of a suprise to see Nicole defend Alex but I’m glad we are (hopefully) past pages upon pages spent on her denying Dreamland, and seeing Alex defend himself is nicer. Am I detecting a hint of maturity?
Nicole wants to believe in Dreamland but her position demands that she keep her feet rooted in “SCIENCE”.
After all the hype to Alex and Staj kissing, here’s hoping Nicole and Dan lock lips soon 🙂 Think it will be good for both of them.
Hey, are those little horns sticking up from Alex’s hair?
…AND Alex wants to see if the sword and the medicine bag disappear the moment he goes to sleep, just like he starts to disappear from Dreamland when he “wakes up.”
And… So does his bitchin’ thundercats shirt.
If he put the sword inside the medicine bag and then went to sleep, dreamland and the waking world would merge! And in the process the sword gets really tiny… But so does Nicodemus, and then Dan is the hero when he kills the old wyrm with a baseball bat while squealing like a little girl.
i take the jab as a possessive sign of affection – and i bet dan does too! flirting, hee hee!
Guess I can anticipate Alex’s thought. Maybe Nicole can get her empiric proof now.
Don’t forget to post the next sequel tomorrow!
I am expecting the bag to start glowing and then go poof. Yest right about when they look the other way…..
Haggis your right but It’s hard to be perfect I mean. These Comics are made day after day after day STRESS!
Thunder Cats!
If I was Alex I’d put my Wolverine doll in the medicine bag and then maybe ol’ Wolvey would join the battle full-size in Dreamland! SCHNICK!!
Dan looks scary to me in the first panel ^^;;
What a great sets of pages these last few days have been …keep it up.
Yeah, the story here is much more compelling than Starship Moonhawk. Is why I come here first very morning to see what goodness Scott has posted. And, right after reading his latest comic and comments, I go to TWC and cast a vote for him there. Any visibility helps his popularity, and once folks see his works, they most likely become fans.
Starship Moonhawk is a bit more “out there”. Of course, no comparison of reality can be made, both are fantasies. Still, of all of the comics that I read, this one is by far the best produced, and pleasing to the eye. The story may move slowly at times, but it gives the reader more time to ponder where the story came from and where it might be going – just look at some of the speculative comments left to these pages!
Anyway, we didn’t quite have enough support to make TDC the number 1 podcast of the TGTWebcomics Tourney. No matter, TDC is still number 10 with 5795 votes at TWC, and Starship Moonhawk is at 223 with only 122 votes.
Keep up the most shiny works, Scott!
Have to laugh — my father was Italian, and I grew up with my fair share of “love swats.” It really was like Pa couldn’t walk by us sometimes without being overwhelmed by affection, and just reaching out and giving us a gentle swat or a pat. I really miss that!
Love Dan’s shirt; my wife has one as well. Gets her a lot of strange looks, because apparently most people still haven’t seen the movie even after 20+ years and 100’s of times on USA/TNT.
How can anyone not have seen Princess Bride?? O_o That’s one of the best movies ever! Well, next to the original Star Wars trilogy. lol!!
I agree with Gremalkin, Dan & Nicole will be watching for the bag to disappear and right when their both distracted by something.. “Poof!”
hey… the sword IS missing in panel 4! Whats up with that?
if Dan and Nicole kiss…:P…it’ll be size 42 meeting size .2
LOL
Soo… I fricking love this comic. The day I discovered it I stayed up til three finishing it. It is the first thing I do every morning. I love this idea so much, and I love seeing elements from some of my favorite stories as a kid. Haha.. a kid? no… I’m 21 and they are still my favorite stories. Oh and no fear on the amount of “Friendly Fire,” I’m Irish and we smack each other around a lot too.
Ok so, am I the only one who gets (I think) the true meaning of what Alex may or, may not be insinuating here about the sword and the bag.. taking them to dreamland? What if Dan were to put the medicine bag around his neck, as Alex does with the sword, and…… you know the rest of the story!!
Brent: Can you imagine what would happen if the USMC faced Nicodemus? There would be a LOT of stinger missiles fired that day…
Okay…so two theories are…1) The bag is a vehicle and disappears when Alex goes to sleep. 2) The bag is a doorway and simply transports the item it contains to a similar bag in Dreamland.
I have a third theory…3) The bag is a Schrodinger system. Anything contained within the bag is held in a kind of entangled state with the infinity of other states in which that object can exist…in the case of the parchment, with ink, without ink, with any number of ink marks…as long as the bag is closed in one universe, the object inside is affected by anything in the other universe. However if the object is observed in BOTH universes, effects cannot transfer.
Effectively…if you wanted to lay the academic smackdown on a skeptic, you could say that not only DOES Dreamland exist, but its existence can be mathematically proven using the same equations derived from quantum physics.
And now we get into the “Mythbusters” type of experiments…i.e., those which are thoroughly insane.
-I wonder what would happen if we put Kiwi in the bag and woke Alex up? Or better yet, if we could put Nastajia in there? Would part of an item be translated through, or would an entire solid mass cross over between universes by virtue of being a continuous object?
-If analyzed using noninvasive means (CT, MRI), could the medicine bag be replicated then? I’d imagine if they actually spoke with shamans and presented a sample (the medicine bag), maybe they could work on re-creating the old medicine bag…and producing a larger-scale model. Helloooo Nastajia.
-Can the bag move energy as well as matter if used by Alex when he’s asleep? (If so, imagine pointing an industrial laser into the bag and have the beam come out in Dreamland…say hi to coherent IR, Nicky…
-What would happen if Alex went to sleep with the bag turned inside-out?
Seems a little odd to go to sleep with your jeans and belt still on… 🙂
And…
AND…!?
WHY MUST YOU TORMENT US SO, SCOTT SAVA? 🙁
Great speculations, Silverwolf. (Great avatar of Skywise)
I have wondered some of that myself. When Alex goes to Dreamland, so does his clothes and shoes (when he wears any). Remember when he was wearing only his smiley boxers? Why can’t he place something in his pocket when he goes to sleep? Who or what decides what will “cross over” with him? The medicine bag is the same size in both worlds but the sword is a full size weapon in Dreamland and small in RL. Another thought; If you saw the movie Somewhere in Time with Christopher Reeves, he went back in time wearing the proper clothes and convincing his mind he was there. Toward the end he pulled from his pocket a penny dated from “the future” which pulled him back to reality and present time. Question, what would be the consequence of taking something not of dreamland technology, such as a laser?
Outstanding storyline, Scott; and the graphics are superb.
I think I understand. It’s a simple experiment – he’s going to have them observe the sword and the bag and see if anything happens to them.
Thanks alll.
Great questions. And great answers too.
I did fix the missing necklace. I think when he lurched forward the necklace went into him. So…all fixed.
🙂
WOW. I just started reading these last night and im so hooked! I’m just bumbed that i already caught up and have to wait along with everyone else now 😀
Very good reading!!!
will nicole every see felicity again? i hope so!!
And…what about Naomi?
(Sorry. I couldn’t resist the old Electric Company gag.)
A family that offers love-taps (but not abusive strikes) has a lot to offer. I’d much rather belong to a family that knows how to combine the spiritual, intellectual, psychological, emotional and physical than one that keeps them all isolated.
oooooh. is that an italian thing? god, that explains a lot about me and my childhood. physical playing is so normal to me, my friends find it strange.
anyway, love the comic, keep em coming
Good sense of suspense, this is a masterful setup.
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I bet he is oing to say hat all us readers were thinking, “What if different people could go to Dreamland with the bag?” I don’t know what he is going to say and I can’t wait!!!
I think think he should try putting something like say an iPod nano in there. 😀
Do you need him to spell it out for you? ^,^
Bedspread win!
Yey, violence!