The Story of TDIC

The Dream is Collapsing has been a work in progress for a few years at the back of my mind as a simple idea, but only at the start of the 2020 year did I put it into motion.

The story is based around the protagonist, Temper, and his partner, a big cat called Sol. The two are first tasked with visiting the king after Tabitha, the king's (formerly) royal witch refused to visit. Once they visit the king they find out that a group of unknown creatures are attempting to break Encore, the antagonist, out of the realm that he has been imprisoned in. The comic follows the two's adventure across each of the different realms of the world of TDIC, visiting other rulers and coming across mysterious accidents that seem to have happened as a result of the group's attempt to break out Encore. I chose to create animal characters for this comic due to the fact that it feels pretty nostalgic to me as my career as an artist first kicked off when I was in primary school. I used to spend countless hours creating various characters and worlds in my mind, only to never really do anything with the ones that I did create.

In this fantasy world there are multiple different islands with one larger one, currently known as the Main Kingdom. This is the kingdom that Aspen rules over and it serves as a sort of hub for each of the islands as in the town center, there is are a set of portals leading to each of them individually. The Main Kingdom is the largest island and the busiest, almost like the capital of the world.

The world of TDIC has gone through a few changes before I settled, originally it was just going to be large world with different realms. I realised that this wouldn't work too well, so I did some brain-storming for some different ideas and eventually decided on making the former realms just into islands on a large planet similar to Earth.

-Muttzn