New Page #44!
If you’re familiar with Dr. Warren’s life, you’ll know that the accounts vary as to exactly how he died at Bunker Hill. The “eyewitnesses” conflict so they can’t all possibly be true.
Luckily for those of us interested in the mystery of his death, his nephew photographed his skull when Joseph Warren’s body was exhumed to be moved to a new cemetery.
Using these photographs Dr. Forman and Derek Beck were able to reconstruct Warren’s skull using 3D software, and then, using forensics, zero in on what the evidence revealed about the cause of death. Cross referencing this new information with the eyewitness accounts of his death, they were able to narrow the stories down to just one.
Though we might finally have our definitive answer today, unfortunately, back in 1775, Joseph Warren’s fate was not known right away. He was among the last to leave the redoubt, so most of the men had already escaped by the time he was killed. And the retreat from Bunker Hill was so chaotic and frenzied that it was hard to know for sure just what had happened at all.
John Warren roamed the area for three days after the battle trying to find out what had happened to his big brother and mentor. The accounts he received varied wildly: some said he was alive and well, others said he had been killed. It took several days before everyone was sure that the great Dr. Warren was no more.
The town of Boston mourned. Black armbands were worn. Poems of lament were written.
But… there was no bringing him back.
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I’ll be at two Columbus events this week. If you’re in the Central Ohio area, stop by.
On Thursday I’ll be at the Gateway Film Center near OSU for their Avengers Assemble Marathon event. I’ll be doing sketches and selling & signing The Dreamer from 6:30 – 8:30.
This Saturday I’ll be at Packrat Comics in Hilliard, Ohio for Free Comic Book Day. I’ll have graphic novels, A Providential Hello mini-comics and I’ll be doing commissions. I have very limited space so if you’d like a particular piece of Dreamer merchandise that you’ve seen me sell at shows, just let me know and I’ll be sure to bring it for you. I’ll be there all day from 10 – 5. Ernie Hudson from Ghostbusters will be there!
What a horrible, horrible way to find out!!! Poor Alan! And the tear streak down his face in the last panel!!! *wails*
And I am NOT looking forward to that next page…<.<
I’m not crying…my allergies are just acting up. *sniffle*
You and me both. Especially if the look on their faces in the VI is any clue of what to expect. I hope Lora uses discretion and doesn’t treat it like an episode of “CSI”! *shudders*
Err… That last entry was in reply to Caera. MY allergies are just fine. *sniffle* :)
were those two supposed to be just random soldiers, or have we met them before. They look awfully familiar.
The guy in the goldenrod waistcoat is Thomas Grosvenor. We’ve seen him plenty: http://thedreamercomic.com/comic.php?id=149
that’s who I was thinking :)
*highfive*
Nooooo…. *tear*
God, that look on his face in the last panel is heart-wrenching…..and I don’t think soldier-me even realizes just who exactly he/i/we is/am/are talking to.
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!
Alan: “What….where is he?”
Eben: “There’s just a note…here….”
You stupid schmucks, did you really think I’d be dumb enough to get myself shot? See you in the West Indies, bitches!
XOXOXO,
Joseph
Soldier: “I knew we shouldn’t have let him watch The Goonies ….”
I like that caption. I think I’ll just go on believing that he moved to the West Indies, and never died.
HEAD CANON ACCEPTED.
Thank you, Brent, for once again making my morning with your caption. :)
Brent, have you been saving them all? You need to put out a RIFF TRAX version of The Dreamer. XD
Alas, no. I only have a PS3 browser (no word document features) or public library computer access, so that makes saving……difficult.
*looks them all up* XD
lol – Thanks! I needed that laugh.
Lora you’re making my heart hurt. I don’t know if I’ll be able to handle Friday’s page.
Ugh, now I’m too sad to finish homework. Joseph! Why did you have to be so brave and get yourself killed?
So, is the next page going to tell us about the Paul Revere silver filling story?
Is that a legitimate excuse, like “The Dog Ate My Homework”?
“I’m sorry about my trig homework, but Dr. Warren died. Who can sine/ cosine at a time like that??!”
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If your math teacher is also a history enthusiast, that just might work ;)
I don’t know about homework, but I’d have used it as an excuse for being teary and mopey at work today. But lucky for me, while this update made me cry, my ‘Future Husband’s’ absolutely epic cover of Rick Nelson’s “Garden Party” had me grinning from ear to ear since I first played it this morning. Every time he ascends the key I start giggling. It’s TICKLISH. I’m not kidding.
At least ONE of the blogs I follow isn’t depressing me. lol ;) JK It’s not like I didn’t get into this comic knowing what was coming. <3
*sob*The last three panels….tore my heart out…..*sobs again*
oh such a sad update! Alan looks so devastated and rightly so! What a terrible way to hear about a loved one’s death (not that there’s a good way).
There is no good way. But this has to be on the list of crappier ways…
I completely agree!
“Unfeeling wretches! Reflect a moment, if you have still one feature of humanity which is unobliterated from your minds, and view the helpless orphan bereft of its fond and only parent, stripped of every comfort of life, driven into the inhospitable wild, and exposed to all the misery which is the result of your brutal violence, and forbear to weep if you can; but I defy you to show yourselves so refined in your darling acts of cruelty, as to be capable of supporting the shocking reflection.” – Dr. John Warren’s diary, June 1775
Wow, you’re good. I think…I think part of me wants to ask if you have Joe’s journal about and what his last recorded thoughts might be.
This personal diary is a rarity among Warrens and for the period. We have no comparable documentary insights for Joseph Warren. To the delight of ‘Dreamers’ Ms. Innes informs her art by research including the handwritten original diary by John Warren at the Massachusetts Historical Society. I will add another snippet below. Fair to say that Dr. John, following days of shock and disbelief, was angry at the Brits.
Sam actually had to pry me away from Dr. John’s diary at the Mass. Historical Society. “Uh… Lora, if you want to see anything else we have to get moving….”
He snapped me out of it, lol. And then I took photos of every page so I could finish reading it at home.
Wow… Poor Alan. That face is heart-wrenching. I’ve been wondering how he was going to react/find out. :(
Wow. Just… Wow. That last panel alone says it all. Alan looks like he aged about ten years in ten nanoseconds.
Does that make him TWENTY years older than Bea? Because even I would be grossed out then.
Agreed, although from what I hear such disparities in age weren’t all that uncommon back then. Sort of like in Hollywood today!
man how sad, I love the last pannel with the tear washing away the filth of war and blood shed
Thanks. ^_^
“Cover your heads with shame, ye guilty wretches. Go home and tell your blood-thirsty master your pitiful tale, and tell him that the laurel which once decorated the [British] soldier has withered on his brow upon the American shore. Tell him that the British honor and fame have received a mortal stab from the brave conduct of the Americans; tell him that even your [Continental] Congress have but served to inspire the sufferers with fresh courage and determined revolution, and let him know that since that accursed day when first the hostile troops of Great Britain put their foot on the American shore, your conduct has been such as has operated in a continued series of disgraceful incidents, weak counsels, and operations replete with ignorance and folly. Tell him this, ye contemptible cowards; hide yourselves like menial slaves in your master’s kitchens, nor dare approach the happy asylum of once extinct liberty, for if ye dare, ye die.” Dr. John Warren’s diary, 1775
John Warren, I <3 you.
When Dr. John tells somebody off, he lets ‘em have it with BOTH barrels! Ouch!
Wow…poor Joseph. But, more importantly, poor ALAN! That’s a doozy of a way to find out. It really is. I’m actually more heartbroken about that than about what actually happened to Joseph – maybe because I could sympathize with him, having had a close relation suddenly pass away before, too.
Yeah, there’s that shock that makes everything move in slow motion– every day feels like three. But once you get through it, and look back, it’s all a blur.
Actually, at Anime Boston I did a reading from a chapter of a new short story on the death of Joseph Warren I wrote, to be released next month. Its about this very thing.
And now that I’ve watched the video…
First of all, kudos to Sam for doing that research. The revelation of what happened felt like a punch to the gut for me (there’s something about this version in events in particular that just sends a chill down my spine compared to other accounts where he was just shot by chance in the chaos), but I’m glad we could put the matter to rest now.
I can no longer comment on these blogs due to the high emotional stress I am enduring. Also, I have shorted my keyboard from my tears of sorrow and lament of a brave, undaunted hero whose name will sound throughout the ages as a paragon of courage, resilience, and fortitude. No tyrant could chain him and no man could silence him. He died for freedom’s cause, for the rights of Englishman that he strongly believed in with all his heart. ” ‘Tis better to die on the field of battle than on the gallows,” he once remarked. He knew the cost, he knew the price he would have to pay. Yet he chose to make a stand, for his country, for his fiance’, for his children, and for his countrymen! When the time for death came, he did not shrink in fear. Instead he stood up and accepted his fate. Dulce et Decorum est pro patria mori. How sweet and fitting it is to die for ones’ country. And so he fell, mourned by all who knew him as father, brother, cousin, friend, mentor, fiance’, doctor, and patriot. May the noble name of Joseph Warren be remembered and cherished in the beating hearts of every free American!
In the words of Abe Lincoln, “We cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who have struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.”
*Ahem* I did not mean to make a speech…. Sorry/
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*Ahem* you say. *Amen* I say.
Joseph Warren could not have asked for a finer epitaph.
Ah, Abe….one of my favorite historical figures.
Are you watching the marathon? I think a few theaters in Chicago are doing this, but I didn’t get tickets for the whole day event. However, signing at the theater is a really good idea….Let me know how that goes for you.
They are marathoning and having artists in the lobby demonstrating in 2 hour blocks throughout the day! What a fun idea.
….except for the fact that they’re not showing two of the five movies, 2008′s THE INCREDIBLE HULK and 2010′s IRON MAN 2 . If they were, you’d be there for about 11 hours.
TONIGHT, BAY-BEE!!!!! :-D :-D :-D :-D :-D
So I’m sitting here in my librarian’s office, doing librarian things, and I’m half-listening to the conversation at the desk. A woman is telling the volunteers about the upcoming christening of her granddaughter, and the surrounding festivities. “And then we’re going to do lunch at the Warren Tavern. It was named after this revolutionary…” Needless to say, I *FLEW* out of my office door. The woman was well aware of Joseph and his story – she had even checked out Sam’s biography for her husband to read.
“Takes more than guns to kill a man. Says Joe, I didn’t die.” – Joe Hill, song by Earl Robinson (not about Warren, but it works)
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