Hey, everyone, I apologize that I’m delaying the update of Pages 7 & 8 till next Friday, February 6th.  My grandfather passed away very suddenly on Wednesday and I just couldn’t finish this week’s pages.  The funeral is back home in Pennsylvania and… Friday and Saturday are going to be two of the hardest days of my life.  I know some of you are the praying sort, and my family could use some prayer right now.

If you’ve been reading The Dreamer for awhile, you’ll remember my grandfather, because he is the great, great, great, great grandson of Revolutionary War Captain Andrew Sharp, who I gave a Dreamer cameo (and my grandfather’s face, though I never heard the man swear, much less use words like “whoring” or “strumpet”…!)  I really don’t have any words right now for how much I loved him, or how much I’ll miss him.

In lieu of an update, you can VOTE and I posted one of the cutest parts of next Friday’s update, a panel featuring Thomas Grosvenor & Nathan Hale.  I know Buzzcomix still isn’t working, and I’m not sure what is going on there.  So click the TWC button with Nathan’s face on it.  Thanks!

For those of you who have been buying The Dreamer in print (you have my eternal love for this), you might notice that issue #6 isn’t listed in the April’s Previews catalogue.  With good reason:  Issue #6 won’t be released until May.

And this week Alyssa sent me a Dreamer Alan & Beatrice fan video, which is very beautiful and can help provide your weekly dose of Dreamer goodness.  

See you next Friday, everyone.

I found a webcomic today called Dovecote Crest and thought I’d share it with you, since a lot of you are historical reenactors, or volunteer and work at historical sites.  Or just love history.

It’s about a girl named Charlie who just graduated college (I think) and is trying to land a respectable job in the history field, but winds up at a small little Civil War battlefield in Arkansas as a historical reenactor.  She’s surrounded not by historians, but by overly zealous history buffs who hope the South will rise again… just so they can shoot them all to hell.

It’s totally cute.  And from the archives it looks like they update regularly.  I added it to my RSS feed.  Enjoy!

New Pages 5 & 6 this week!  Nathan is back… briefly at least.  :)

(Colonel Knowlton, always ready to mentor his men.)

Did you all get your printed copies of Issue #3 yet?  And don’t forget to pre-order Issue #5!  Diamond order code #JAN094325.  Or order online at Heavy Ink or TFAW (overseas).

I think I’ve mentioned before that my color assistant, Michael Motter, does not get my scripts when he gets the pages.  Not because I’m mean, it would just be added hassle for me.  But I think he’s come to prefer it that way because he creates his own dialogue for each page while working on it.  Earlier this week, I found this in my email from him:

(It was too good to keep to myself!)

VOTE this week to read the original first six pages of the Issue #6 script.  Enjoy!  I think the briefer version that I wound up using is far superior, but there is some cuteness in the original that was eliminated.  Special thanks to my writer pal Michelle for having the guts to say, “Uh, Lora… this intro isn’t working…” and helping me revise Issue #6 to make it so much better!  So VOTE!  

(Oh, and I know that Buzz Comix isn’t working… when their site is up and running again, I’ll update the incentive.)

After John Adam’s inauguration in 1797, when George Washington willingly (and arguably eagerly) left the presidency after serving only two terms, Adams described the event to his wife, “A solemn scene it was indeed… [Washington] seemed to enjoy a triumph over me. Methought I heard him think, ‘Ay! I am fairly out and you are fairly in! See which of us will be the happiest!’ ”  

That Washington was unhappy in the presidency was not a secret.  Members of both political parties had pleaded with him to run for a second term but he had resolved not to be talked into a third.

But when it was Adam’s turn to hand over power to President-Elect Jefferson in 1801, he opted to take the early morning coach out of Washington before the inauguration and did not attend the event.

Ahh… the peaceful transference of power.  We started it here in America, and it happened again today, with much more gracious attendees.