hamnat
01-16-07, 12:07 PM
Alright, I know the name makes it sound like it's for kiddies, but I'd say more of an all-ages kind of thing(especially if you're a shipper^_^). The Dreamland Chronicles (http://www.thedreamlandchronicles.com/) is a good 300-some page read, so far. It's well drawn with a little more of a "real" feel than the Inverloch-art.
The Dreamland Chronicles is a story about Alexander Carter, who everyone calls Alex(understandable). Alex is a guy who hasn't dreamed since he was 12, and he's 20 years old right now. But he remembers a land in his dreams called..er...Dreamland...In Dreamland, humans can fly. There are elves, cyclopses, teddy bear people, dragons, you name it...it's probably there. Dreamland is where imaginative children go to in their dreams, somehow managing to be able to interact with one another.
The story starts out with Alex telling a medical student about his last dream. In the dream, he saved a village of teddy bear people from a cyclopse, whose butt later became a pair of vacation islands. Alex had gone into some mysterious cave where his rock-boy, fairy, and elf friends were unable to go, apparently because they weren't human. Alex finds a strange sword sunk into a dais and pulls it out to see how heavy it is. He wakes a dragon in the process, who proceeds to try and kill him. It is at that point he wakes up and never dreams again.
Interestingly, he wakes with a sword pendant around his neck and it is sent to him 8 years later, the same day he's talking to the med-student about his inability to dream. He puts the pendant on the night and suddenly, he's back in the cave in naught but polka-dot(they're smileys) undies. He meets a pair of mermaids and chances an encounter with the fairy-village of one of his childhood friends, the fairy-girl named Kiwi. After Kiwi's grandfather threatens to turn Alex into a pickle...yes, a pickle...Kiwi begins to tell him about the reactions of his friends to his disappearance from Dreamland. At this point he wakes up again. Back in the real world, he tells his twin brother, named David, about how he dreamed again. Unfortunately, Alex's dreams were a cornerstone to David's childhood, and David thinks Alex is mocking his interests. He's kicked out of his dorm room to find him self sleeping in the med-rooms.
He puts the pendant back on his neck and he pops up in Dreamland again. Kiwi decides to take him to see Paddington Rumblebottom III, the rock-boy who is now a famous dance-instructor. Paddington is overjoyed to see his old friend again, and proceeds to bear...or rather rock-giant...hug him. Alex brings up the notion that the sword pendant, which is the sword from the cave in Dreamland, is what allows him to go to Dreamland. Paddy tells Alex about how he's learned moves from all the children who visit Dreamland, which makes Alex wonder about how this is possible. At this point, he wakes suddenly with a group of doctors standing over him, trying to...revive him. It turns out that he was in the real world, in fact....clinically brain dead. According to the machines, he flatlined(died, pretty much) as soon as he hit R.E.M. sleep, which is the sleep stage in which you dream.
His brother decides to look into the strange conditions, and the next morning, has a stack over 4 feet high of books on mysticism...including the bible. The med student, her name's Nicole, comes by, and she and David get into a heated debate about how Alex needs medical attention, and how Nicole is a nut-case. Later, Alex is wired up to another machine, with David watching him to avoid any X-Files activity from going on.
The rest of the story proceeds from there, but I'll let you read it on your own.
For those of you who believe all the mysticism you hear, keep in mind that theses kinds of things are plain fiction, no matter how real or well-explained they may be. And although we may want things like this to be real, it will never happen. I had to remind my brother of this after he read the comic...it was pretty funny how he'd go on about how the author "may have something here. What if it's true? What if..." you get the picture.
In anycase, enjoy the comic, the artistry, and for those of you out there who are shippers(you know who you are), don't worry. Your favorite part comes up soon. Sayonara!(^_^)
The Dreamland Chronicles is a story about Alexander Carter, who everyone calls Alex(understandable). Alex is a guy who hasn't dreamed since he was 12, and he's 20 years old right now. But he remembers a land in his dreams called..er...Dreamland...In Dreamland, humans can fly. There are elves, cyclopses, teddy bear people, dragons, you name it...it's probably there. Dreamland is where imaginative children go to in their dreams, somehow managing to be able to interact with one another.
The story starts out with Alex telling a medical student about his last dream. In the dream, he saved a village of teddy bear people from a cyclopse, whose butt later became a pair of vacation islands. Alex had gone into some mysterious cave where his rock-boy, fairy, and elf friends were unable to go, apparently because they weren't human. Alex finds a strange sword sunk into a dais and pulls it out to see how heavy it is. He wakes a dragon in the process, who proceeds to try and kill him. It is at that point he wakes up and never dreams again.
Interestingly, he wakes with a sword pendant around his neck and it is sent to him 8 years later, the same day he's talking to the med-student about his inability to dream. He puts the pendant on the night and suddenly, he's back in the cave in naught but polka-dot(they're smileys) undies. He meets a pair of mermaids and chances an encounter with the fairy-village of one of his childhood friends, the fairy-girl named Kiwi. After Kiwi's grandfather threatens to turn Alex into a pickle...yes, a pickle...Kiwi begins to tell him about the reactions of his friends to his disappearance from Dreamland. At this point he wakes up again. Back in the real world, he tells his twin brother, named David, about how he dreamed again. Unfortunately, Alex's dreams were a cornerstone to David's childhood, and David thinks Alex is mocking his interests. He's kicked out of his dorm room to find him self sleeping in the med-rooms.
He puts the pendant back on his neck and he pops up in Dreamland again. Kiwi decides to take him to see Paddington Rumblebottom III, the rock-boy who is now a famous dance-instructor. Paddington is overjoyed to see his old friend again, and proceeds to bear...or rather rock-giant...hug him. Alex brings up the notion that the sword pendant, which is the sword from the cave in Dreamland, is what allows him to go to Dreamland. Paddy tells Alex about how he's learned moves from all the children who visit Dreamland, which makes Alex wonder about how this is possible. At this point, he wakes suddenly with a group of doctors standing over him, trying to...revive him. It turns out that he was in the real world, in fact....clinically brain dead. According to the machines, he flatlined(died, pretty much) as soon as he hit R.E.M. sleep, which is the sleep stage in which you dream.
His brother decides to look into the strange conditions, and the next morning, has a stack over 4 feet high of books on mysticism...including the bible. The med student, her name's Nicole, comes by, and she and David get into a heated debate about how Alex needs medical attention, and how Nicole is a nut-case. Later, Alex is wired up to another machine, with David watching him to avoid any X-Files activity from going on.
The rest of the story proceeds from there, but I'll let you read it on your own.
For those of you who believe all the mysticism you hear, keep in mind that theses kinds of things are plain fiction, no matter how real or well-explained they may be. And although we may want things like this to be real, it will never happen. I had to remind my brother of this after he read the comic...it was pretty funny how he'd go on about how the author "may have something here. What if it's true? What if..." you get the picture.
In anycase, enjoy the comic, the artistry, and for those of you out there who are shippers(you know who you are), don't worry. Your favorite part comes up soon. Sayonara!(^_^)