New Page #57!
That’s a wrap for Issue #14. Goodbye, Warrens! Thanks for the trip down memory lane, Alan. It’s time to find out what on earth has been going on with the rest of the cast.
*I’m taking Vacation Time next week*
I am headed to New London, Connecticut for the opening of the exhibit I did for the Nathan Hale School House. Come see me at 2 PM, Saturday, June 30th. I’ll be speaking and showing behind the scenes sketches of the exhibit.
I’m not happy with the script for the next issue yet, and since I’m traveling, I want to make sure I have enough time to get it right before I start drawing.
*See you back here on the 4th of July for the start of Issue #15!*
In the meantime, I won’t leave you empty handed. Now that you’ve met the Warrens, I’ll bet you are wondering what happens to them. Next week, Dr. Sam Forman (who more than lurks here on the site) was kind enough to write a series of blog posts about the fates of Joseph Warren’s children and brothers.
When Sam sent me the first draft, Mike and I were on a date. I saw it show up on my phone and got sucked in reading it until Mike cleared his throat and said, “Uh, are we on a date?” Ooops! Let’s just say, you don’t want to miss these blogs.
I’ll be posting Sam Forman’s Warren Follow Up blogs next Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
*And don’t forget the new death of Dr. Warren “Three Days Ago” Short Story is now for sale! Available in either PDF/ePub format or MP3 Audio Book!*
Three days have passed since the battle of Bunker Hill and rumors that the famous Dr. Warren was killed have reached the people who loved him most in this brand new Dreamer story.
*VOTE this week to read a preview page from the story!*
D’awww!!! That’s a serious promise to make.
*le sigh* Now we must hasten to the 21st century. I am having very bad Nathan withdrawals. If Bea finds out about him in history class while she’s in the present I’m going to flip out. Poor Bea. Poor Nathan. Poor Alan!
The VI: hahaha, I concentrated on getting taller a lot when I was younger. It didn’t work until I turned 13 then it didn’t stop. I think I grew again this week. The ground seems farther away and my pants are so much shorter…
Have fun at the schoolhouse, I wish I could be there. And I’m dying for Dr. Sam’s blog! :D
I almost WISH Bea does find out about Nathan’s death and tries to prevent it… but then the balance of nature would probably flip out and then worst things happen. Like all the cozies suddenly disappearing or morphing into a cozy monster.
*chokes on my drink and dies laughing* LOL!!!!!!!
“my pants are so much shorter” Are you sure you didn’t just put them in the dryer on “hot” by accident? XD
Not every single pair!!!
I am now very confused. I tried measuring myself (which is probably the problem) but my results landed me at 5’8″ exactly, whereas the last person to measure me in January, when I noticed the ground seemed further away and my legs achy, had me at 5’9″ and I had been 5’8.5″ since 2009. If my pants are shorter and the ground is further away, but I apparently am shrinking, HOW TALL AM I?!?!! lol
Life’s mysteries. I guess I could just ask the doctor next time I go in for a checkup but they stopped admitting my height gains when I hit 5’6″. Mum is 5’7″ and I’m DEFINITELY taller than her, no matter what they say. lol
I wish I would just wake up a doubtless 5’10″ and be done with it. I always thought that would be a good height, close enough to 6 feet but not going into the just-plain-scary zone (as my guy friends call it, not me. I think tall ladies and short guys are as cool as the tall guys and short ladies, but American culture…XD)
Yayyyyyy, there’s SPOILER ness! This makes me happy. Plus, that promise is so much cuter than the ones I was proposing.
Have fun in…..uh, here! I’d come up, but work insists….
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!
Page: “Hello! I am the most hug-inducing story in this collection! Would you like to know more?”
THAT LAST PANEL! Oh my apple jacks! Huge breath of relief… or are we still in the past? D:
Have fun at the schoolhouse!! (Is it possible to see a photo how big that Nathan Hale comic you drew stands in print?)
We are in the past but the, uh, present past? How are we delineating that now? Top half of the page is April 1776, bottom panels are September 1776.
top half = past past (flashbacks for 1776 era)
Bottom half = present past
Yes, what Brent said! XD
Furthermore…..
past present = flashbacks to the 1990s/early 21st century lives of our heroes
present present = bea and company in high school
Have we even seen past present yet?
*flips through volumes 1 and 2*
Weeeell…..technically, no, but if we ever do, now we’re covered.
@Lora: This is what happens when you mix flashbacks with time-travel! Aaarrrggghhh!
This page…I love it…and hate it too because of Bea’s comment to Hammy about war “Sucking the souls out of men” and not giving them back. although….ALAN’S AWAKE!!! With shorter hair…? Or is it just me???
And the Dr. Warren Story…I wish I could hug Betsy, her chapter made me cry the most out of all of them. But it’s still my favorite </3
I think he’s sleeping on his ponytail. Unless Jack cut his hair while he was sleeping, Sampson & Delilah style!
Yup… considering the current state of Alan’s soul and body, I’d say he broke his promise to Ebenezer on both accounts.
somehow…I see Jack doing just that as payback for his nose…
And that equals Alan being read the riot act by his cousin/brother/best friend the moment he gets home…after the kiddos finish takling him.
So you hang us with him waking up and we’re not going to see him again for another chapter?! ACK! LOL!
This was an awesome chapter to get Warren’s back story. Thank you for presenting it in such a unique and tense way!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Do you also plan to do a back story for 18th century Bea someday?
Is that Alan waking up from his fever-induced sleep in that last panel?? :DDD
Mmm hmm. Better than Christmas, right?
If Alan is waking up, we can hope that all Dreamer naysayers who had taken up a collection for Alan’s burial to fess up. Instead assign that money to some useful purpose. Word is that the Continental Cogress could use some hard cash to shore up shaky finances, and that comparable issues in Washington DC of today would benefit by your largesse.
BEST. COMMENT. OF. POST.
My town’s suffering from a bad flood… We sure could use some help.
Awesome story-telling. It just gets better and better!
Thank you!
That night sky is beautiful! Wish we could still see those, nowadays.
So did Mike ever think he’d be “third wheel” to a guy who’s been dead for 237 years? :D
Mr. Innes has nothing to fear. Volume 14 has come to a happy close with Alan apparently perking up and remaining solidly ensconced in the 18th century. I am not so sanguine (…had to slip in at least one of the four humors) about fictional Cato. How is the fellow going to feel when he realizes that he is competing for Beatrice’s attention with a gaggle of heroic dead white guys? That is a melancholy prospect that could result in his losing his appealing phlegmatic and easy-going nature to a bilious ill-humor. It touches on so many hot button issues for fragile adolescent male egos. Such quandaries rarely come up in historical biography, so I look forward to them in the upcoming volume of The Dreamer.
Poor Ben Cato indeed.
We’ll be seeing him sooner than we’ll be seeing Alan again, so stay tuned!
I’ve been unsuccessfully trying to convince Mike to be a reenactor for years.
I think the closest I’ll get is having him be an extra in To Appomattox!
Cosplay and historical reenacting seem to be parallel pursuits with more in common than we realize. Assure Mike that he can obtain any damn beer he likes in these various universes. However, genuine Warren Russet hard cider is available in only one of them.
ha! Only available in my favorite of the universes. Which makes it about as rare as that awesome Boston Brick Red beer. Why someone would pass up the chance to order one of those is beyond me… ;)
I have found a source of Warren Russet hard cider. More on that after this coming Fall harvest time…
Uh… Let’s talk in the fall.
Talk is cheap. Warren Russet hard cider is priceless. Or, for you, four bits of a Spanish pillar dollar.
great end to the issue :) and I look forward to those blog posts next week.
Thanks!
So is Alan waking up in 18th century present time in those last panels? I hope so….
I hope so too. And there is no hint anywhere of the Ominous Red Outline. Not so much as a pink shadow!
Hey Dr. Sam, you’re the expert – what would a pink outline mean?
Brent, that’s a tough one! I never did figure out exactly what an ORO is/was. We can speculate that a pink one is a milder version. Milder version of what, we are uncertain.
Oh…….ummmmm….oh! Let’s go with “fourth wall indication of severely critical life support issues”. I won’t say fatal or death, since
Colonel CosyKnowlton lived on for a few minuts after getting his, and Alan has apparently fully recovered from his.Brent, you have a flair for medical nomenclature! But nagging issues remain, discussed no doubt behind closed doors at the ORO Institute. Why has this visual phenomenon not been evident at comparable dangerous interludes?
As indicated in the description, it can only be seen by beings outside our reality, or maybe by Deadpool. Thus, us seeing it en masse on 9/11 or when a friend of ours is in a car crash would be kind of improbable. If we did, it would mean we’d ascended to the status of superior being or (more likely) had gone truly insane. If, though, you mean in comics….well, different artists interpret things differently, but the essence is still the same. Superman, for instance, got an orange one when Doomsday put him out, but he still could be brought back. Hence, the possibles list….
red – death
orange – coma
b&w – flashback
pink – extreme (but non-fatal) sickness
You just might have nailed this mystery. But the explanation is too complicated for me, and perhaps others, to understand. I will take your word for it. btw, there is an opening you might want to consider in Harvard’s Quantum Physics department.
Really. Would they hire a 30 year old layabout who majored in liberal studies and whose only steady employment is his neighborhood grocery?
Horizons and prospects are bright for that spirit who can elucidate and tame the ORO through all its enigmatic dimensions.
Or maybe we can prevail upon Ms. Innes just to tell us.
YAY ALAN WAKING!!!! *hugs her computer screen* That is the second awesome thing I’ve been presented today (the first being “bribery donuts” when I showed up to audit a financial rep’s business :) )!
I will miss being in the 18th century, but I suppose we are long overdue on an update on “the real world.” How exactly is Bea’s friendship with Liz going? Will Cato realize he’s being ousted from Bea’s interests by an historical figment of her dreaming subconscious? What exactly will Yvette wear to the costume dance?? These questions MUST be answered!
Must and will. :)
How do we KNOW that the 21st century really IS “the real world” and the 18th Bea’s “subconcious”? It could be the other way around! OR maybe Bea’s actually dreaming BOTH worlds! Something to consider!
You’ve been watching Awake, haven’t you?
Also, that theory’s been kicking around for a couple years now…..although the realization that Dana gave me inciting that the only recieved flashbacks have been for 1776 characters does make me want to revisit it some…..
Oh, yes, I’m aware that theory has been brought up before. The fact that, so far, the pasts of the characters in the 21st century have merely been implied tends to support it. The only problem with it is how an 18th century girl could know anything about a world 200-plus years in the future. Bea would have to have Nostredamus-type abilities, only greatly enhanced in order to not just see that future world in such vivid detail but to also interact with it. Something could have gone wrong with her power causing all memories of her 18th century life to have been temporarily removed.
I read an article once about people who go through a traumatic experience and then create some kind of alternate reality to help them deal with it in whatever fashion. Maybe this is some extreme version of that?
Possibly. Only Providence and Lora would know for sure!
Also bring back pixie sticks. They be da bomb!
“…You went the whole way to the 21st century and all you brought back were these lousy pixie sticks?!”
Just pour them in his flip and watch the fireworks…..
I love it so far! Have fun on Vacation!
Thanks, Donna!
Have a great vacation, Lora. Thanks for all the great backgrounders this graphic novel.
Thanks. :)
You know just how to get a girl, don’t you?
I kept putting off buying the Three Days Ago combo pack–mostly because I already cried a lot from the latest Legend of Korra episode and wasn’t ready to go through more emotional turmoil so soon–and lo and behold, I am taunted by a teaser snippet as the voting incentive. I must have more!! Farewell, dry eyes! Farewell, writing projects! … I suppose I should plan to read after the ladies’ tea tomorrow or my makeup will run. *siiiiigh* I hate waiting.
Have the loveliest, most beautiful, most inspiring vacation, and thank you a thousand times over for not killing Alan!! :)
Excellent chapter, although I kind of thought it would end with Bea realizing that Alan will recover and then hearing of Knowltons death shortly after. True, she didn’t know him that well, but I figure this bad news on top of all the stress she’s been under would have caused her to collapse in tears. Of course she would just happen to be holding Alan’s hat at the time! Well, at least I finally achieved my life-long quest of seeing Joseph Warren’s skull. and in glorious red-orange, as well!
Wait is he awake, NOT dead?
Maybe he’s dead awake? Hey, that could be a whole other comic…
From the dregs of the 18th century, returned to fight British tyranny today, it’s……ZOMBIE ALAN!!!!
No. He’s /almost/ dead. There’s a big difference between /almost/ dead, and /ALL/ dead.
Even so, “Dead Awake” sounds like a good title for a horror movie. That is, if we could figure out how to make the plot fit the title.
How about this?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Awake
Also, this:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0254252/
I swear on all providence that I did not know about either of these before just now.
Huh, well, how ’bout that? But then I’d be surprised if nobody hadn’t already used such a cool sounding title for a movie.
I’m beginning to think about the concept behind her whole dreaming. Is she her own ancestor, so she has to ensure she marries Alan to exist in the first place? Or is it all complicated, wibbly wobbly timey wimey?