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By: Bennel

Bennel — Fri, 30 Mar 2012 19:37:30 +0000

Besides, this is the Middle Ages. They didn’t have blood back then.

By: bkev

bkev — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 01:28:45 +0000

Just came to weigh in on the blood issue. I say in moderation it would be nice, as I’ve always felt that shielding people (mainly kids) from the truth is more dangerous. I’d rather there be a small amount of blood than a kid think he won’t bleed if he stabs himself… perhaps that’s an extreme example, but hopefully it gets my point across.

By: Silverwolf

Silverwolf — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:11:34 +0000

“And then…the render farm suffered a fatal heart attack! The CGI villains were no more.”

By: mahesw

mahesw — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 08:21:44 +0000

Since the story, for the time being, is set in Arthurian times I would like to suggest another author that created another famous strip from this era. His name was Hal Foster and the name of the strip is Prince Valiant.
You don’t see much blood and goore in Prince Valiant, although there are lots of swordfighting and battles in the strip. And where there is blood, then it is either on the swords or to illustrate some of the smaller wounds on the characters.

Otherwise I don’t mind the lack of blood in the strip above. I have enjoyed the story so far. Keep it up Scott!

By: lake_wrangler

lake_wrangler — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 06:36:25 +0000

Maybe he was all talk and little action… Bold words, but not the real courage to see it through, so he sneaks, ducks, and so on, until confronted head on with nowhere to run…

Or perhaps they each had their assigned targets, so he snuck behind and past Arthur to get to his assignement.

Another possibility:
When we first see them, they look like they’re about to converge. So it’s possible that the people at both ends of their line did some sort of “X” trajectory, where the one from the right met Arthur where the two bars meet, and VHG snuck behind Arthur, and kept going on his original trajectory.

By: ninjaquiden

ninjaquiden — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:16:04 +0000

totaly agree with you. oh and the comic is awesome the way it is. we can imagine the noises, and its great. This way depending on your age you can imagine it anyway you want it to be. In a way your making us dream about it, or at least day dream, which is bringing us more into the world that you have created.

By: ninjaquiden

ninjaquiden — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:12:49 +0000

remember that it is a kid friendly comic. I’m all for action and violance, but we have enough of it on tv, games, and movies. Would it hurt to have one “inocent” piece of matirial on the internet? yea this could have been more dramatic with a little bloodshed in it, but what about the 6 year old who reads these every night before bed? don’t get me wrong, I’m a fan of violance, but I consider this comic a “family” comic and whouldn’t change it at all.

By: ninjaquiden

ninjaquiden — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 05:05:56 +0000

i think you might be over anylizing it. do picaso fans try and figure out why he painted someones nose where his eye should be? no. dont think too hard about it, instead try and enjoy the magnificance that is dreamland. no offence.

By: Werepixi

Werepixi — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 02:31:09 +0000

There’s no real bloodshed in most of the fights and it’s things like that that make me confident and comfortable to sit down with my young sons and read this comic. I agree with Dreamer that the only times that we’ve seen blood has been at the appropriately dramatic scenes and it really helps add impact without making it gory.

The style of images here remind me of the fight Alex had with the pirates early in the story. The was no blood in that fight either but there was no doubt about what was going on and it certainly cant be affecting the story telling because my 6 & 8 yr olds could easily understand the frame by frame break down.

By: Addie

Addie — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:02:15 +0000

Motion lines might be more trouble than they’re worth. I like the frame-by-frame action: it really feels like being in a battle, and everything has slowed down to be one picture at a time.

Sound effects would ruin the battle. It kind of reminds me of Firefly and Serenity, where the space-battles had no noise. Granted, this isn’t the vacuum of outer space, but the lack of sound effects helps with the total-absorption I mentioned before: everything has slowed down to be single shots in the battle.

My thoughts on blood are a toss-up. Yeah, a bit of blood on the swords might look really cool, and still keep it PG, but guys: this IS a kid’s comic. Kids get so much blood and gore these days, it really is refreshing to see a comic that just has some implied violence. There is also plenty of room to leave gore up to the imagination of the reader.