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Well…that’s another week done.
Boy…they seem to go by fast.
Hope you enjoyed this very special week. And that those Felicity fans who threatened me with bodily harm (you know who you are you mean people you) are content to know that all worked out well.
🙂
I will be at the GMX convention this weekend.
It’s here in Nasvhille. So…it’s like 20 minutes away. YAY!
I’m doing a DREAMLAND panel at 2pm on Saturday.
And should have a table the rest of the weekend.
Please stop by and say hi.
That’s it.
Hope you have a great weekend.
Oh…and next week….FLYING LESSONS!
Really.
See ya
Scott
I’m trying to figure out if Alex is being sarcastic or not. He’s definitely not being facetious.
probably frightened at the idea of being pushed down that cliff thing.
I see that Nastajia is healing (or is it forming?) her relationship with Felicity. Being the kind of person she is, she still feels reponsibility for what happened to Felicity (as she admitted to Alex just outside of Himdel). This will help her feel that she fulfilling her obligation to Felicity.
Or at least, that’s how I’m imagining it.
Yeah. Kind of the way my brother taught me skiing.
“Yeah, sure it’s a black diamond run, but you’ll have it all figured out by the time you get to the bottom! Or you’ll be dead! Or both!”
Uhhh, Scott?
The big and small TWC links are not working on IE8 or Firefox. No hotlink.
Love the scene with the hands. It’s a very touching moment, and i personally take it as a powerful symbol between staj and felicity, the two are finally connecting =D
Her nails look weird… being the same colour as the skintone. They look like barbiehands. You should lighten them up a little.
The nails look a little weird since they’re the same colour as her skin. You should definitely lighten them up a bit, or at least give them the little crescent nail tips. But it’s still a very touching scene.
I love today’s comic! It was so sweet it made me wanna say “Awww!”, especially at the first panel.
God damn it Scott… I’m crying! I’ve cried the last part of the letter as if I has 5 and Felicity was indeed my friend…
you are soooo GOOD! 🙂
I love your work and everyday it’s a little bit more I fall in love with it. Remember always: you don’t have to wow us. Keep being true to your ideas and you’ll have a webcomic in its Awesome Zone for as long as you want…
and as always, take care of your health and the missus and the similar. A man’s home it’s his best kingdom, or so i’ve heard. 😉
And I reaaally can’t wait to see the Flying Training. Something tells me that Alex is going to have his butt handed to him…
🙂
Bye!
I wish I could fly 🙁
This could be something a lot like little birds learning to fly.
Remember it’s not the fall that hurts, it’s the sudden stop at the end:)
Can we still harm you in the form of tickle-torture? Pwetty pwease?? No feathers, we pwomise!!
Ten bucks that half of the people reading this comic, while the whole Felicity crisis was going, TOTALLY forgot that Alex still needed to learn how to fly. But saving a friend of a friend that’s also your friend, bonding all three of the non related girls in your life (that we know of), not seeing Paddington because he’s a bit too big for the medical tent, and learning how to fly.
Boy, does Alex need sleep because he does too much in his sleep or what?
And cry cry, sniffle sniffle for California being a kajillion miles away from Tennessee.
I’ve checked and that number is correct, kids. You can measure it yourself and it’ll be exactly 1 bajillion! Don’t believe your parents when they tell you- HEY, what are you doing?! Don’t be closing this window on me!! That’s very ru
Say, my brother used that same tactic on me when I went on my first black-diamond run…
Who would’ve thunk it?
spiffing
My one disapointment is dan and nicole wasn’t mentioned. I would’ve liked to see her reaction.
Yeah what I just said, but with good grammar.
One shock at a time, young one, one shock at a time. . . .
Given Felicity’s reaction to Alex and Nastajia kissing, I suspect her reaction would be another “I just ate something disgusting” face!
Remember Alexander, the knack of flying according to Douglas Adams is throwing yourself at the ground, and missing.
If the action doesn’t get in the way of their correspondence, that’ll probably be in one of the subsequent letters.
It might get her wondering when she would meet her prince.
I love how your avatar fits to your comment. 😀
last two panels make it seem as if alex is sent off to his execution. LOL
shouldn’t he be excited to be able to fly again soon? tsk tsk, we silly adults and our rational minds. 😉
Yeah, the tips and cuticles (yes, I’m a guy who knows what cuticles are) need to be a lighter shade so that the nails stand out more from the fingers themselves.
TWC voting banner doesn’t link to TWC.
The one responsible for this will be punished.
Calling 911 as we speak.
Heh. We’re going to get HHGTTG references in this comic all the way until he actually does learn to fly… [if he does… which I doubt. I reckon it would fit the story if he couldn’t fly, due to him being an adult and his imagination being poor… Or some similar theory that doesn’t make me think of Peter Pan and the flying sequence in that… [“All you need is faith, trust, and fairy dust. Oh, and happy thoughts, but I’ve packed some weed for that.”]]
Scott,
Can’t get it to work either, can’t vote, it was fine last night at home however, this morning at the office, nada!
love the todays page. I agree the nails need somin to make them stand out a little more. and the Cat’s miaow , what is wrong with Petter Pan? he like so rocks. and if you have seen the move Hook. he flies as an adult. Alex could think of kisses Nastjaia. *smiles* I cant wait to see next week.
Hmmmmm… why is it a find the need to look for the second shoe?
*looks up to the master storyteller….Is there something I am missing? Or do I just expect our elf to be more snitty then she is?
Or, you could give her a really cool nail polish color to compliment her royal purple hair … ?
The link for TWC is not working in Google Chrome, either. I can still go there manually and vote for it, but it is kind of nice and convenient to not have to when the link is working properly. Thanks, Scott for a great conclusion- and even some possible foreshadowing- in this part of the story!
Totally Sarcastic.
Very sweet page today. I do need to go back and re-read though.. for some reason the whole Nastajia / Felicity making nice seems rushed. Probably just my imagination though. heh.
Thanks for such a touching resolve Scott! Many kudos. 😀
I agree.. can’t wait to see the flying lessons. Alex looks sooo happy. Not! lol!!
Yup.
Wow. Thanks guys.
Didn’t realize that. Top one is fixed.
🙂 Thank you.
Yeah. We’d not seen her nails before (since she always had gloves on.
Just laziness on the modeller’s part. And not enough time to fix them last night.
I’ll try to paint them before the book comes out.
Awww….thank you.
🙂
YOu’re too kind.
Thank you very much.
LOL. Me too.
He’s having to “study” in his dreams.
He hates doing it when he’s awake.
I’m sorry. I’m sorry.
I fixed it…see?
She’s growing.
Fixed.
And thank you.
Yes please do.
Hopefully it will feel more natural once you do.
I’d suggest going back to chapter 12.
I love how Orion basically grabs Alex’s collar and steers him out of the tent before Alex can screw up all this progress. XD
LOL.
“Yep. The modeller put in 145 hours on Nastajia and should have put in another 10 minutes.”
Pure laziness, indeed!
I think she’ll have to do some growing up first, and there is no reason to force her through that now. At least for the development of the storyline.
Ha ha. I’m just sayin’…
haha, good point.
he’ll just need a better incentive, then. 😀
I think Nastajia and Felicity have some common ground now…when Alex disappeared from Dreamland as a boy, Nastajia thought he had been killed. When Nicole stopped coming to Dreamland, Felicity thought Nicodemus had killed her, too. They both know the pain of losing a special human friend, and now both know the joy of discovering that those friends are still alive and still care. 🙂
Just my thoughts (almost) exactly.
Hmm.
Some day, I’d like to see your story outline and notes. Either at the end of the story or when a section doesn’t contain any spoilers. I think that would give a great deal of insight into how you craft the story. So this section might look like:
Relationship: Felicity and Nastajia: Suspicious to Friendly. Q: Would just Felicity’s injury cause Nastajia’s friendship? A: No, not consistent with Nastajia’s character. Insert scene with Nastajia feeling guilt about not stopping Felicity.
Unless, of course, you do all of this in your head!
Nice read just got through it all thought you should be aware of some picture upload troubles int he arc around the 820-40s cant remember exactly which ones but some of your work just didnt load at all may be just that IE8 is being grouchy.
Actually, that brings up a point.
Is Nastajia the type of girl who paints her nails every morning? I mean, it was about 900 pages before we even saw her with her hair down! Is she just too obsessed with her responsibilities to bother with such trivialities? I think I have the answer:
Scene setup: Nastajia’s room in the castle. Nastajia is sitting in front of her makeup mirror, applying nail polish.
Alex approaches, knocks: “Uh, Nastajia? I hope I’m not interrupting.”
Nastajia continues her task, not turning around: “Not at all, what is it Alex?”
Alex approaches: “Is that nail polish? Somehow I didn’t see you as the type to use nail polish. Maybe it was your thrashing of the pirates that gave me that impression.”
Nastajia: “Maintaining a respectable appearance is an important aspect of successful leadership, Alex. You would do well to remember that in the future.”
Alex: “Uh, OK. Umm. What color are you putting on?”
Nastajia smiles, examining her handiwork: “Arterial Red”
Alex backs up, wide-eyed, narrowly avoiding stumbling over an ottoman: “Uhh, OK then. I’ll. . . umm. . . see you downstairs then.”
Nastajia: “Until then”
Long time reader here. Thanks for all that you do! Wife, kids, and I are so appreciative of all the heart you put into the comic and entire site. As a amature graphic artist, I’ve noticed little rendering boo boos once and a while, but your great writing makes up for it. This one kinda threw me off track. Frame 4 showing Nastajia’s hand. There is no texture, creasing or color variation on her hands. It seems so strange…almost wormy in contrast to Felicity’s colors. I noticed in early comics Nastajia wore nail polish, but lately nothing. Please consider possibly lightening her nails a little.
Kinda.
I plotted out each characters development. Who they are at the beginning of the story (frustrated, angry, emotional) and who they are at the END of the story (didn’t think I’d tell you…did you?)
🙂
Then I wrote out everyone’s stories. Just milestones I need to hit.
Then I start intertwining those stories.
And…here we are.
Ha ha!
Thank you.
That would be chapter 13…
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/category/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-13/
Do you see the missing pages there? I checked (I’m on IE 8 as well) and didn’t see any missing pages.
Thank you for letting me know. And hopefully the problem is gone.
*singing* I BELIEVE I can fly… XD
“So far so good said the man falling past the tenth floor.” XD
Maybe Nastajia should promise him a reward, because maybe that would mean more to him than “just” being able to fly again. XD
Like Arthur Dent learning to fly, all you need to do is throw yourself at the ground and miss!
This page is wonderful, it made me sniffle. I really love Felicity’s expression in the first panel, and the developing relationship between Natasjia and Felicity in panels 3 & 4 is beautifully done.
LOL! Love the avatar! Heheheheheheheheheheh!
Wonderful week, Scott! Loved every page! Looking forward to next week, as well!
Didn’t have time to read through all comments but thought I should point out the grammar error in the third panel…should be “until she’s strong enough to write for herself” or “until you’re strong enough to write yourself” depending on who she’s talking to (choice one if she’s talking to Alex and choice two if she’s talking to felicity)…Sorry to be a grammar nazi but I yust can’t help myself 😉
Somehow I’m thinking her nail polish would be a color that accents either her hair color or eye color (tho accenting hair color would be more likely.)
Love the exchange JakesDad, and of course – as always- love Dreamland Scott! ^.^
I’m going to have to disagree.
I would agree IF the line was, “Until you’re strong enough to write for herself.” Your suggestions for grammar correction would be spot-on in that case.
However, that is NOT the line. The line is proper grammar as it is, since the word in question is “her” (meaning Nicole), not “for”. Have a look again.
The line reads, “Until you’re strong enough to write HER yourself”, referencing Nicole, not Felicity.
No harm, no foul tho! Cheers! ^.^
Hey, where’s the respect for us Felicity haters? 🙂
I understand why you can’t just kill her off, but cat-girls are like the worst of furries and otaku all rolled up into one cringe-worthy little package. I normally love this comic, but whenever Felicity starts showing up, I have to force myself to read–not always successfully. I know that a man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do, but keep in mind that not all of your readers are the lowest common denominator!
p.s. pardon me while I go unwedge my tongue from my cheek now. 🙂
ah my bad…yust looked really wrong when I first read it (guess what you expect to be written really influences how you actually read something). But I see now that the line is as it should be so I stand corrected even though it’s really embarrassing to be wrong when trying to correct someone =p
I could cry. Beautiful work, Scott. It might just be the scene, but it feels like this is some of the best modeling, face-wise, that you’ve done for Felicity.
Hah! And I just noticed the way the light is falling on her face in both panels we see it: Intentional symbolism, or awesome coincidence there?
I found this webcomic today, and just finished reading from the start. Wow, that sure took a while. Now to wait for the next part. This is just incredible.
Thanks PD.
Welcome Yuzzi!
And thank you.
Oh you mean person you!
Actually…I’m a dog lover myself.
🙂
Awww…. on the last page you could already see that Felicity was struggling with tears, and on that first panel when she was crying… you just want to hug her. Poor lass.
But it looks like she’s going to be ok now. It’s kind of a shame though, that the two of them, Nicole and her, will only be “penpals”. But I guess it’s better than nothing. 🙂
I loved these last few pages. They were just so perfect. Especially the lighting and overall mood.
Yes. And both of us have unexpected aches on cold mornings. . . . to this very day. . . .
That’s going to be around 1600-1800 pages of intertwining! That’s quite a bit for 6 major characters!
Plus, who looks forward to learning something incredibly dangerous?
“Why yes, the previous operator did lose both arms in this metal press, but with our training and good timing, I’m sure you’ll never have a problem!”
Scott,
Aren’t you glad that you added the TWC buttons back in? Now you get 10 times the aggravation that you ever had before with them.
Oh, and the small button doesn’t work yet. ** Poke** **Poke**
I remembered–but some things are just more urgent than others. I mean, given how much luck he had remembering how to fly with Kiwi (book 1 or 2?), this could take some time. I can imagine him telling Nicole, “Ummm…I did learn to fly again. Oh, and by the way, Felicity died before I could get back to you to write a letter and give her hope again.”
Very good point.
On the other hand, only geeks enjoy doing long division or calculus. Alex knows how much fun flying is. That makes the motivation a whole lot of different!
JakesDad, you know it’s not really safe to poke a Dancing Master Rock Giant, don’t you?
Yuzzi,
How did you find this webcomic?
*sniff* You have me in tears, happy ones tho. 🙂 It would totally suck if she had perished, shes my fave, but then again im a kitty person and have 2 warm and cuddly ones myself. So thankyou for keeping her in the story. I just love the overall artwork on this comic, thanks. 🙂
Thank you for the response! I was just making sure it wasn’t just a Chrome thing, though I figured not since I saw other guys posting it wasn’t working in Mozilla.
BTW, I’m totally in love with this comic and can’t wait until you’re done writing it. Do you plan on releasing a “special edition box set” once it’s all said and done, book wise? If so, I’m so waiting until then to purchase. If not, you should talk to your publishers about that. 🙂
Ha, ha, ha!
That’s why I chose I giraffe as my avatar!
I’m far too tall to be **SPLAT!!!***
. . . . . .
No way. Scott is very aware of how he does his lighting and even makes fun of himself for how much time he spends on it. Felicity’s going from the darkness and into the light is quite deliberate.
scary, how easily guys can be persuaded. I have the feeling it would really work on alex too. 😉
dan would be another matter. he’d probably start weighing the incentives against the danger. 😀
Touching, truly….made me cry again. Well done, m’lord. Well done.
This is the best comic EVEEEEEERRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Way to ruin the mood Alex!
A tender, heartfelt moment between Nicole and Felicity AND Nastajia and
you cheapen it by that comment
Shame! But I really can’t blame ya, Flying is awesome :).
Wow…. that was good!
Thanks. I had haggis as my screen name for a while and thought using one for my avatar would be a laugh. Googled it and found a cartoonish recipe on the first page and could resist cutting that part out.
OMG! (grabbing his sides)
make… it…. stop!!!! hahahahahahahahaaaa!!!
I’m going to write it down. Just because.
You, my frrriend, are wise in yer lore.
Yeah, Seasoned Fairy Dust: your everyday condiment!!! XD
Although, knowing Master Scott here? I’m willing to be it’ll be a little bit more challenging this FlyingAbility development thingie… will have to wait and see.
Okay, so this site looks totally stellar on my friend’s 64” TV via the Wii that’s hooked up to it. However, I highly recomend getting a kryboard fot the Wii if you plan on using the Wii on a regular basis.
Gotta follow up those serious moments with some comic relief. It’s a rule, you know!
This was a wonderful scene, Scott! So great to see Felicity on the mend and her and Nastajia’s relationship being repaired.
Aww I like how you showcase the beauty of your work beyond just talking heads 😀
Can’t wait to see Alex flappin his arms like a goof.
And no, that wasn’t supposed to go into a reply to Jac. Not sure what happened. See if it does that again…
Darn you! Darn you, Scott Christian Sava to Heck!! I was checking out my former fav cartoon, when an ad for yours showed up on the side. I read through the whole series today, and still want more!
Jakers! You made me laugh, you made me cry! Almost! I mean Almost cry!!
Say, am I the only one who want to see what happens if Nicole or Dan sleeps with the sword necklace on? Or is the necklace only for Alex?
Is it Monday yet?
I think a banner on another webcomic page caught my eye. Good thing it wasn’t on the Adblock list 😀
Ha ha….
Thanks Grimereaper….
And welcome.
Lovely scene; looking forward to the learning to fly too. 🙂
U know? I just noticed Felicity isn’t very furry, but she’s like a cat person… is it just that her skin is like that, or do you just not do fur?
The sword necklace –
Ah, never mind. If you’re reading this, then you’ve probably already read your way up through all of the comments in the archive, so you already know that Scott confirmed that the sword necklace only works for Alex a couple hundred pages back …
😉
Orion: “In order to help you fly, we prepared this Trebuchet.”
Alex, the postman? ^^
I _did_ cry.
…just a little. >_>
I love this page. That first panel always makes me cry.
jeez. in the time it took me to scroll all the way down here i forgot wat i wanted to say.
oh yeah! I’m glad staj an felicity have made up. twasnt nice to see them fight. although the comments did make the fights much funnier.
Do I sense sarcasm? 😀
Hey Scott, do you think you could lighten up Nastaji’s hair? It seems strange that her hair darkened suddenly. I mean, yeah, that was like the last chapter her hair got darker, but I didn’t want to seem rude or anything. Hope I still don’t.