New Page #37!
No, Joseph, Alan didn't go to Harvard. He's clearly not as smart as you. Rub it in, why don't you?
I hope you enjoy your update a few hours early today. It’s our anniversary! 9 years, believe it or not. So… Happy Anniversary, Dreamers!
So there has been a change to our time for The Dreamer Meetup at Anime Boston, but it’s a minor one. The Panel was moved from 5:30 to 4:00, but it’s still on Saturday. It shouldn’t make a difference to anyone.
If you aren’t my friend on Facebook, you should go check out my page. I’ve been posting some of the fun merchandise we’ll be selling at these shows: buttons and sketch cards and tee shirts, huzzah!
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Come out and meet me and pick up some sweet Dreamer merch at these shows:
- Anime Boston, April 6-8! Artists Alley, at Booth #30.
C2E2 in Chicago, April 13-15. Artists Alley at Booth #G14.
Don’t forget: Old South Meeting House is offering $1 off admission if you show your copy of The Dreamer during Anime Boston, April 5 – 9th!
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Aw! Happy anniversary to The Dreamer! I love this comic for so dearly! And I’ve been reading it for four years :D
Aww, shucks, I didn’t make that clear: It was our nine year wedding anniversary!
Dreamer’s 5 year anniversary comes up this 4th of July. Gee, what are we going to do for that?!
Haha, sorry for misunderstanding! That makes a lot more sense :D I’m excited for the fifth anniversary! That’s one of those milestone things so we should do something exciting :D
Happy Anniversary to the Dreamer!!! I love your comic so much I cannot find words to express how much. It has always made my Fridays, then Wednesdays, so much better! HUZZAH!
This would mark my third or second year of reading this wonderful comic. So, HUZZAH to that too!
And angry Alan is still Angry. Perhaps we should have Alan be the angry birds….. He fits the bill. Ha! No pun intended. I might have gone out on a limb with that one.
Yet.. . he is like a poppa chick trying to keep his loved ones safe. No, check that! He is like a lion! :D
And wow, I sure babbled. LOL!
“Angry Alan” DOES sound like a video game title. The object would be for him to protect Bea from menacing Redcoats and also to see how many times he can clout Joseph on the head for accepting her offer to help and getting her into danger!
Seriously, this could explain why Bea was abducted even though her parents are Loyalists, and why Howe is so set on getting her back into custody.
These last couple pages are happening in 1775 too, like, over a year before the battle of Manhattan, etc. It seems odd that she’d be arrested and held for that long – I’m starting to wonder if she finds out more TOP SECRET INFORMATION and passes it along…..
Yes! That’s exactly what I was getting at. This could be merely the first time Bea takes part in such “activities”, and the British eventually find out, or at least strongly suspect her of it. The big irony is that Bea probably still has no memory of this, IF the 21st century personality is still the dominant one right now.
Hmm, who would Alan want to hit? Well… Nathan, Howe, Joseph, Betsy Loring, little John, the “Ninnies”… there have been a lot of people he wanted to put through a wall!
if you ever read the Frederick Knowlton short story he even gets up in Thomas Knowlton’s face at one point. ha ha ha, I love that story.
I can just imagine a little cartoony-looking Alan moving like Pac-Man after various characters and bonking them on the noggins!
Wait, 9 years? Are you talking about yours and Mike’s ani or 9 years since you came up with The Dreamer? We’ve definitely not been reading for 9 years. Unless I’ve lost a few of my memory…
Awww Alan…knows better than he realizes… and the VI is so sweet.
I am soo excited about AB and the meetup. I’ll be at the con more or less all day so. :D
meeee toooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and I come with plenty of money to raid Lora with XD My room will look like the Dreamer exploded all over it!!!!!!!!!!!!! ^~^
I have so much fun stuff I bought just for this show. Bring your $! Buttons and sketch cards and prints and comics and graphic novels and charms and magnets and dress up dolls and teeshirts! It’s going to be my most robust convention booth I’ve ever done.
I squeal every time a new shipment comes in, because I want to keep it all, lol!
*jumping up and down like a little kid* YAY!!!
ha ha ha, sorry that was unclear: Yesterday was our WEDDING anniversary! The early update was our present to you all, ha ha. (No really we just didn’t want to have to think about it at midnight, lol.)
We’ve only been “Dreaming” since 2007- so coming up on 5 years.
Happy anniversary!!
These past several updates have really been full of feeling and just…I dunno, really pushed the risks and stakes of what it meant to oppose the British government. Not in a textbook, hindsight sort of way, but what it meant to join the rebellion without knowing how it would end. Just lovely storytelling!
Especially when I look at that last panel and realize who was in that painting so long ago at the art museum… :(
Everything you said, with an extra :(
Thank you! That’s the goal! It’s… a little challenging to write a story where everyone knows the ending and still make it suspenseful. The Americans win, we all know that! But they certainly didn’t. I try to write it from their point of view…
It’s the personal stakes that make it totally work–Bea only cares about Alan, Mrs. Warren is terrified her sons will be hung in faraway England, and Alan’s just beginning to see what war means–not just a wild adventure, but losing more than he thought he’d have to (Joseph, Knowlton). We might have won the *war*–but people lost a lot in that winning, too. That’s what makes it feel so real and immediate and suspenseful.
Isn’t that the way life really works? We forget that sometimes when we study history and look at cause and effect relationships between events and cultures/societies at large. But each community is made of individual people and the things the move us to make the individual choices we do is almost always personal.
Lora, I did add you on Facebook under Sir-William Howe.
I’m loving the panels.
Oh an Happy Anniversary and I just had my birthday (March 29)
Happy Birthday!
Happy Birthday! :D
Happiest of days to you!
Oops. Reply fail. But happiest of days to you too, Half Moon! Just because. 0:)
Happy Birthday!
Aww, our wedding anniversary and your birthday are the same day!
*high five* I hope it was a good one!
hehe…Is it bad that I can’t seem to stop drooling over Joseph for these past two pages??? And Happy Anniversary!!!!! almost a decade???? wow!
You can borrow the mop I keep handy for whenever John is on the page…
A mop? Hah! She’d probably need a Wet-Vac! THAT”S how bad she has it for Joseph!
Well… I guess it’s okay now that his wife is dead. Though she better outrace Mercy Scollay to the alter!
Faith: thanks, but Nathan keeps slapping me up the side of my head.
David: Shush you! ;P besides, I’ve “known” him for most of my life!!!
Lora: LOL I think I’d win… O>;D
and btw, you want to save the wet vac for when the death toll starts climbing. ToT
Yes, unfortunately it will be needed to vacuum up a different kind of spilled liquid.
I’m with you, Faith. Being married to Joseph Warren would’ve been nothing but heartache. Just about everything else in his life was more important to him than you, lol.
There is something hot about John’s arrogance…
Congratulations on your 9th anniversary!
thank you!
Aw, I love these guys.
HAPPY NINTH!!
Thanks! :)
Colonial road rage, smothered in Warren-y goodness. I’ll be having a good day today.
Happy Anniversary, Dreamers! I still feel like such a newbie.
And Lora, I checked out the map for Artists Alley – you’ve got a seriously sweet spot, at booth 30. It’s kitty-corner to the right of the main entrance, which is primo real estate.
Yup! They usually put the guests in the best seat of the house.
I meant to add that I love your preview captions, too. This week’s reminds me of that immortal Latin saying: “Si hoc legere scis nimium eruditionis habes”. (Google the translation)
Yeah, I’m in the apple farmer camp with Alan. No Latin for me.
First things first: happy anniversary, Lora :)
That being said, I love the dynamic you have between Alan and Joseph right now. Joe’s last line about not being able to always protect someone you love…that’s gonna stick with me for a long time. It’s so poignant and a great way to end off this page. And something tells me he says it with more than a bit of resignation – almost like he’s experienced it before and it’s still hurting him.
He lost his father when he was 14. And his wife in 1773 (I think). Well, and he was an 18th Century doctor who I’m sure lost more than a few patients along the way.
There was also a detached-ness to some of his decisions that I’ve personally questioned, though. Not that he didn’t feel real loss but I think he saw himself as someone who was very important and some things for the greater cause of Liberty in his personal life were just collateral damage. I could be wrong. But he wasn’t the most present husband or father.
Which is a stark contrast to Alan, who is a man who makes all of his decisions based on his personal relationships. But… is not very ambitious at all.
Ah. So…sort of like the pragmatist versus the idealist, but…not quite, either. I know what you’re referring to, but words seem to escape me.
Happy anniversary! :) Yay for married life! I don’t know how I hadn’t added you to my Facebook yet, but I have solved that problem by sending you a friend request. :)
Oh, and this page is awesome to the 10th power…I don’t know if my computer would survive a page with good close-ups of all three Warrens we love (John, Joe, AND Alan)…unless it already has and I fainted from the exposure and forgot. :P
… There might be one coming. *cough*page39*cough*
*prepares the smelling salts*
OoO heeeeh!!! now add Nate so we can get a fix!!!!???
We may need something stronger to revive the more extreme swooning cases.
Don’t worry, I ordered half a gallon of epinephrine and two dozen needles…..they should arrive by tuesday.
Thanks Brent. I know I’ll need them, and Half Moon, Faith, and Caera are even more swoon-prone than I am. :P
That news makes me want to glomp you!!…and I don’t know how I’ll prepare myself for the amazingness that will be page 39… :D
Happy Anniversary! And I loved the exchange between Joe and Alan on this page and the preview looks great too, such emotion!
:) Thanks!
Happy Anniversary :D
AND I ADORE THIS PAGE!
ha ha, thank you!
Maybe I can’t save all of them, but I can at least keep the girl safe who showed up in the middle of the night, ignored my messy room, and even gave me smoochies.
If I play my cards right, girl might even clean the place for me some day. Just saying. You don’t let go of a girl like that.
She loves him despite his knobby knees. Gotta hold onto that one!
Oooooo, she’s a featured artist! Coooooool!
So, I definitely have next Saturday off, so the likelihood of my appearance is increasing. That’s good, I guess.
COMIC! No, Joseph, he doesn’t know that. If he did, we all probably would have stopped reading a long time ago.
By the way, I can’t help but think that Alan looks a little Robin Hood-ish in that outfit. Anyone agree?
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!!
Joseph: “Alan…..have you been working out? You feel awfully firm….”
Also — HAPPY ANNIVERSARY!!!
Bonus incentive caption — “No, Alan, we can’t take Lora to Hooters for her anniversary dinner. Beatrice would never forgive you…”
You’d better come now that we know that!!
re: Incentive: AWKWARD. LOL!!!!
Which one? WINK!
Also, just reserved the train ticket, so I guess I’m fully commited now.
Hawt Dawg! The Dreamer meet up just became official.
Hmmm, I wonder WHO Bea’s valuable information-sharing “acquaintance” could be? *wink, wink*
lol The Doctor is in???
I bet it’s Chuck Norris. She’s smart enough to know that he’s the only way to win this thing quickly, right?