New pages today, as promised. Since they’re a part of the scene which was started last week, I posted them all together (5-7) in the “Issues” section of the site.

Aww, come on now, Liz, what’s wrong with dreaming about Paul Revere? I’ve heard people downplay Mr. Revere’s infamous ride, saying things like, “Oh, that Longfellow poem got it all wrong” or, “You know, he wasn’t even the guy who made that ride!”

Paul, fret not. I’m here to clear your name! You are awesome. (Okay… except that propaganda print you made to inflame the populace over the the Boston “Massacre.” That was not cool.)

The poem is wrong in that Mr. Revere himself hung the lanterns in the North Church Tower, and was not waiting to count the lanterns from Charleston’s shore. This was to ensure that if he could not get out of Boston, the message would still be sent: The British are coming ‘by sea.’ As for not making the ride or not ‘really’ making the ride, there were two riders. Revere rowed across the Charles River and rode off sounding the alarm through Charleston. William Dawes rode through Roxbury & Cambridge, leaving Boston ‘by land’ (Boston Neck). The two then met up at Lexington and rode off toward Concord together issuing the alarm and warning John Hancock and Sam Adams to get the heck out of there before the British showed up to arrest them. Revere, Dawes, and a third rider, Dr. Samuel Prescott, were all arrested, and Revere was detained while the other two escaped. In my opinion, being in jail seems like a good reason to not have finished your ride. Apart from this, Mr. Revere was no stranger to making express rides, and, from what I read, was the fastest rider from Boston to New York and Philadelphia–trips he made numerous times. He was an active member in the Sons of Liberty, a probable participant in the Tea Party, a dang good silversmith, an okay print maker, and even a quasi-dentist. Aaaaand, if that’s not enough to impress you, Paul Revere is actually the man in the painting on a bottle of Sam Adams beer. Why? I have no clue. But thank you, Mr. Revere! Some of us still love you!

I started a new audio book yesterday, Washington’s Crossing by David Hackett Fisher. I’m only on disk 4 of 15, but I think it’s going to be David McCullough 1776 good. He’s done a fantastic job at painting portraits of the different demographics of the three armies who fought in New York in 1776: the Continental Army, the British Armed forces, and the Hessian Mercenaries. Before I continue, who invented audio books? Give them a freaking gold star and a raise. But anyway, Fisher has the best General Sir William Howe story I’ve heard yet. (You remember General Howe from issue #1–he gave Bea and Alan quite the scare while they were trying to escape his warship.)

I knew that Howe lead the British troops at Bunker Hill, which was a savage bloody day for his majesty’s army. The Americans basically peeked over the tops of their defenses and picked the Brits off like target practice… Howe lead three rounds of men up the hill, was pushed back down each time, and by the third trip ordered the British Regulars to go with unloaded muskets, storm the American redoubts and stab them with their bayonets. Which… wound up working because the Yankees were out of things to load their muskets with (thanks to John Hancock and the Continental Congress’s refusal to send supplies). I heard that by this third trip, the grass was so thick with blood that the soldier’s gaiters were stained red, and that Howe was the only officer in his regiment still standing. I also knew that it was his performance at Bunker Hill that gained him his promotion to Commander-in-Chief after General Gage got his demotion from the same affair. What I did not know about the battle is that in the midst of all this, Howe’s waiter followed him up and down Bunker Hill carrying his wine on a silver platter.

In case, you know, the General got thirsty.

That’s so… 18th century British dandy that I love it. Who says history books are dull? You can’t write stuff this good!

The Dreamer just opened shop over at Etsy. Stop by and pay us a virtual visit!

We’re cleaning out our inventory of items left from the Wizard World convention this summer. We’re selling the rest of the Dreamer teaser comics and sketchbooks, as well as prints of “The Kiss.” Every order will ship with a free Dreamer button. How cool is that?

In unrelated news… Mike and I went monitor shopping and picked out the monitor of our dreams at Best Buy this weekend. We’re waiting until Apple’s big announcement on Friday to see if they release a new Mac Tower. If they do, we’re buying it! If not, we’ll bite the bullet and buy the one they have out now. Our iMac is a thousand years old in computer years (or 8 years old in real years) and it often has me contemplating jumping off the roof. Since Mike likes having me around, he’s buying me a new computer. I can’t wait to see how much faster drawing is with my brand new Mac…!!

So, uh, Etsy shop. Now would be a good time to buy or donate! Ha! Seriously, though, if you love The Dreamer and want it to continue the only way that will happen is if you support us! I absolutely love putting the comic out and plan to do it as long as it is financially possible. Which will be until the end of the series if you help us make that happen!

So… apologies that you only get one new page this week instead of two. I could rattle off the list of things that happened which prevented two pages from getting finished, but would it make a difference? So, I’m sorry! You will get two new pages next week, and that’s a promise!

I thought I’d give you a teaser at page 6. You deserve that at least. So here are the rough pencils for page six, posted in my deviantART gallery. The fun part about seeing the work in this stage is that you can make up your own dialogue! In fact… the person who comes up with the best dialogue for page six wins! Come on… get creative. What on earth could Bea say that would elicit that look from Liz in panel 5. ;)

I think you’ll be happy next Friday. Pages 6 & 7 are my favorite pages in all of issue #2. And I think that the rest of the comic will read much better this way, as pages 6 & 7 are a scene, 8 & 9 are a scene, etc. My favorite joke in the whole issue is on the end of page six, and chopping it up and making you wait a week for the punch-line would’ve just ruined it.

So that’s my excuse! Only one page this week to salvage the great joke on page 6…