New Page #7!
Well, after hearing about him since Issue #1, you can finally meet Dr. Joseph Warren! He’s been an invisible member of the cast for a long time. (Remember this? Or this? Or that?) At the point of today’s update, Joseph Warren wasn’t quite “Dr.” Warren yet. He was wrapping up his apprenticeship with the esteemed Dr. Lloyd in Boston, but would teach a few years at the Latin School in Roxbury before returning to the city to start up a medical practice of his own.
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Squeak! I’m not gonna lie. I drooled a bit…you did good, Lora. <3
Hahahaha! Shooting guns at night. He would. Alan, let’s go to the range tomorrow…
Hmm, lucky 13. Gotta pick your career. Serious business. I’m loving these flashbacks. The VI looks cute to boot!
You know, thinking again about page 6, when Bea is calling out for Knowlton, Nathan and Fred, she never got to say goodbye to Knowlton or Nathan. That’s so sad. She’s not going to see either of them again.
But I’m going to think, therefore, since she DID get to say goodbye to Alan (or rather he to her) that means HE is going to be fine…
But Alan got to say goodbye to both Knowlton and Nathan. Silly ladies. It’s not important to keep the woman folk in the loop of all the important business. Our weak constitutions just couldn’t handle it.
*goes off to borrow Alan’s barf bowl*
I’ll show THEM a womanly constitution! *snatches bullet of doom right out of the air before it hits Knowlton* You’re welcome.
*grabs bo-staff and starts beating the crap out of Robert Rogers* You stay away from my NATHAN!
XD
It’s like I always say. I can be a lady, when I want to be. Long hair and skirts, but given my druthers I’ll be in boots and totin’ a rifle.
Jerimiah:………May I have my bo-staff back now?
*hands Jeremiah bo-staff* Sorry. Got a little over-excited there. lol
lol I just realized I mispelled his name… -.-”
Hahaha it’s ok. I didn’t even notice. And apparently he didn’t either.
Jeremiah: I noticed, but I’m too polite to say anything. *charming wink*
Me: Now don’t give us that look. That’s nothing but trouble.
I like trouble…
Well you two go have fun and trouble then. I am going to get the undergound bunker ready. We’re gonna need it.
lol, the most we’ll do is have an epic bo-staff fight…after he teaches me how to use it
That’s the most YOU’LL do. Jeremiah on the other hand…
Jeremiah: I’ll be the perfect little saint. *explosion in background*
Me: O,O hehehehehehehehehehe! *glomps Jerry* can you stay with me yet?????
Jeremiah: For the time being. Caera’s still editing her last novel so we haven’t gotten to work yet.
Me: Teehee. All in good time. XD
Take your time….Nathan can “hang” with you for a little while while I’m busy with Jeremiah
Oh gods what have I started?
only time will tell…*takes Jeremiahs hand and pulls him into a police box*
I’ll love to see Any man try to say THAT to Mrs. Knowlton.
see if they can still walk or aim a gun afterwards. ;)
I take it that Mrs. Knowlton was one tough lady. But then she’d HAVE to be to put up with Thomas all those years!
Oh and I’m glad the deadline is extended. I haven’t even gotten to start on my piece yet. If I even bother to do it. I’m not sure I can actually pull off what’s in my head.
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA*inhale*AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYY!!! JOSEPH!!! Nice to finally see his legs. You made *my* dreams come true, Lora!
Goin’ to bed, now.
In all your excitement, you forgot to notice that John finally showed up too. ;)
Oh, I definitely noticed Little Jack, too! But I’ll wait until he’s older and more obsessive-compulsive to start razzing him. Right now, he’s sweet and innocent and should be enjoying his brother’s company.
He’s not *that* sweet. Sounds like he deserved that beating Alan gave him a few pages ago. XD
Ha ha, in the original script on this page I actually had him run back inside and you could hear the voices as he let Ebenezer and Sam know that *he* got to go to Boston with Joseph but they had to stay there, lol! There was no room for it in Panel 3 though, it was just distracting anyway I worked it.
Someday you’ll have to put out The Complete Annotated Dreamer, with sidebars of background info, sketches, and script changes. I’d buy that!
I’ve wanted to! I just haven’t had the time to put it together. Anyone want to help…? Lol!
Read unpublished Dreamer scripts and side stories? I’m in!
*raises hand* Me! I used to be an editor and I’m an author now…does that help?
….can i help too?
Joseph!!!! *glomp*
*pokes Joseph*
Wow….never seen someone get knocked unconscious by a glomp before.
@Half Moon: Just wondering, have you REALLY been attracted to Joseph since age five and if so how and why did that happen? Also, how will this affect you and Nathan? lol
hahaha! Nathan learned to share a LONG time ago! And I got attached to Joseph the same way as Layfeyette and Nathan….Liberty’s Kids! So yes, I was about five when I first encountered Joseph Warren. He was a year earlier than Nathan even! XD
Ah yes, I figured it might have something to do with Liberty’s Kids. I always thought it was funny that the show spanned across two decades during which the Kids didn’t seem to age a day! They should have been in their 30′s by the time the series ended, with the possible exception of that French boy. I know that show was geared for little kids but I would think they’d have noticed. lol
I was five when I fell for Nathan too, but that was a good decade before Liberty’s Kids came out. History books, man.
I forget when I first heard of Joseph. It was a long time ago, but I didn’t know as much about him until I was in middle school, and read Johnny Tremain and got into the other Revolution books.
You mean Henri? I loved him he was such a cutey!
*I* noticed John!! ;)
You guys kept asking, “When’s Dr. John going to show up?” Well, I hope you’re all happy! ;)
I wouldn’t hand him a saw just yet…
When are we going to meet him in the past-present, when he looks like James McAvoy? That’s when I want to see him. lol
That’s when I want to draw him. ;)
Well then there’s no excuse to delay! :D
JAMES MCAVOY? YES. WIN!
O.O James McAvoy??? I think I now like Dr. John a little more…. But then again I am just a sucker for that faun!
Dr. Joseph one of my heroes and cute
Jo-seph, what up bro? Goin’ good? Keeping clean? Nice…..
ummm…..yeah.
I love Alan’s reasoning for firing the gun — “It’s okay, people are still awake! If i shoot someone, everything’ll be just fine!” And no, you can’t be a smith — you have to become a dirty apple farmer and meet Beatrice (she’s three and a half now, right?)!
Dr. AwesomesauceJoseph: “Alan, you have to make her remember! Show her your memories! Otherwise, she could die!”Alan: “But she deserves normalcy! And it is so hard!”
(please note, Carlisle is being played by Joseph because one awesome doctor deserves another)
that should have said INCENTIVE CAPTION!!! . These things need an edit button.
……Where were these lines??????? *hasn’t seen Breaking Dawn prt 1 yet*
Actually it’s my version of the end of Twilight, in the dance studio when Bella’s been poisoned. Kind of a liberal adaptation, but still….
Ahhhhhhhh ok
Dr. Awesomesauce = LOL!!!
That is his official name from now on.
Now we have Dr. Awesomesauce and Captain Fancy Pants.
We take such care of our Founding Father’s reputations around here…!
How about ” The Professor” for Nathan? I can’t think of anything more zingy right now.
Maybe Knowlton could be “Colonel Stubbleton”
And George Washington is the Man with the Rock? Or the Rocker maybe?
Can I squeeze the Warrens into a suitcase and take them home with me?! They’re made out of sacks of all kinds of precious!!! I can’t take it! Also, tomorrow’s my last paper for finals and I can’t wait to get to doing my piece for this year’s FanArtPollooza. Didn’t make it last year because of exams too (and it was Nathan themed too boohoo!) so I’m definitely not gonna miss out on this one!
Wheeee!!!
There are some good Nathan Moments to pick from this year!
Soooo many….
Glad we finally got to meet Doctor Warren :) I am loving the child version of Alan, he is angsty and cute! and maybe a bit of a trouble maker lol
Maybe just a little. :)
Alan is completely adorable in the first panel. He looks just like a kid who’s about to do something TOTALLY AWESOME, even though he probably shouldn’t.
And, for the record, I have officially become a Joseph fangirl now. He’s so handsome! *drool*
He is fun to draw. After 13 issues of scruffy men in disheveled uniforms, it’s nice to have a dandy join the cast!
My eyes just had an overload of gorgeousness. Joseph, Alan, John… I want to keep them all!! Alan’s grin and those blue eyes, especially. My goodness! It’s the perfect cure for a head cold. I can now sleep happy. ^.^
Something about Joseph’s hair and closed-mouth smile makes me want to swoon into a heap. Being that he’s a doctor, I’m sure he could revive me. *raises eyebrow*
Young colonial almost-doctor crush commencing in 3….2…1….
*lift off!*
Who knew you could power rockets with chocolat and apples?
*quietly sings ‘All you need is love’*
Chocolate and apples are the best foods in the world. Of course you can power rockets with them!
Yeah but i didn’t realize they could be safely combined and used. ^_^
Where there’s a will there’s a way. :D
Joseph!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11 *rushes up to him and glomps him* I love his expression on this page. Sigh.. Revolutionary heartthrob indeed… Now of Lafayette were to show up, I would not be able to get up from the floor!
OMG Joseph! I can’t believe he is here! Stand aside Justin Bieber, Joseph Warren is coming to town! :D
He’s only 21 and still single!
Ohh.. I better nab him before Elizabeth does.. wait.. won’t that change history? Uh,, Maybe I will impersonate as his daughter! Lol. That would be interesting! :)
We better have a medic with this comic, for all of us girls are one step away from having a heart attack! Maybe we can enlist Dr. John to help us…..
If LaFeyette comes into this comic….Ohhhh! Be still my fluttering heart!
Lafeyette isn’t due to arrive in America until sometime in 1777, and at the current pace of this storyline you’re in for a LONG wait! And just what is it with you and 18th century men anyway? Is it the clothes and long hair and the fancy way they talk, etc.? Or have I just answered my own question? I think you and the other fangirls are suffering from some “Historical Romance Novel Syndrome”! lol
Ha! I think you answered your own question! Not only that, but most of the men back then were doing something wonderfully heroic. How many other centuries produced men such as Captain Hamilton, George Washington, Thaddeus Kociouszko, John Paul Jones, Gilbert Lafayette, Joseph Warren, Josiah Quincy, Nathan Hale, Benjamin Tallmadge, and… Uh, my mind went blank. I know there are more out there, lol! I mean, come on, the wig, frock coat, waistcoat, breeches, and the tricorne hat just add to it!
It’s the queues and tricorns, definitely.
Don’t forget Paul Revere! He might be a little older (I think he’s 42 now, or 28 in the current flashback) but he’s still plenty tough! >:-)
And James Armistead Lafeyette!!!
It’s Jane Austen syndrome. We women folk are especially prone to it.
I think queues and tricorn hats were no longer really “in fashion” when Jane Austen was doing her thing, but that pretty much describes what I meant. All those frills and lace and courtly manners and stuff. I suppose you sometimes wish you’d lived back in that time, or could at least visit it via TARDIS or something like that.
You answered your own question. Not to mention guys were just sooo much nicer back then!
It’s just a good thing Nathan is so understanding about you and Joseph. It would really mess up history if those two were to fight a duel over you! Maybe by hurling spontoons at each other! Lol
….Nathan’s understanding about a few more than just Joseph….
Yeah he just hangs out with me in the meantime.
Crap I did it again.
first of all, did what again? Second, if that’s the case…. So /that’s/ where he disappeares toooooo!!!!!!
Made a hanging pun. I did that on here a few weeks ago. It tends to be a running thing with me in any conversation, but especially when talking about Nathan…I’m very punny but in these cases it’s NEVER intentional…
Ha! now I get it… lol I thought u just kept him in a small blue box ;D
No, we hitch rides in the blue box but we don’t stay there all the time.
LOL u should just “borrow it” one day….its fun
Hah! She said “Revolutionary heartthrob”! I may have coined a new term. But anyway, speaking of the Revolution, the Boston Tea Party took place on this date in 1773. Sip on THAT, King George! lol
AHH! just got my Dreamer shirts!! Win! I was wearing my I<3NathanHale shirt when I read today's update which was awesome as usual! Naw lil' Alan is adorable with his little musket and tricorn!
Oh, and Lora, your parents' house looks so nice at night with the Christmas lights on (Mary Ann next door is driving my mom crazy because she tells us every time we're over there how nice it looks, to which my mom indignantly protests that our house looks nice too!)
Jaimie, this cracked me up. OF COURSE Mary Ann did that, lol. I have so many crazy wonderful memories growing up on that street….! Like the time she told us that she happened to be watching our house with binoculars and the biggest bird she’d ever seen in her life flew over our roof.
That’s great, Mary Ann but back up to the “watching our house with *binoculars*” part…
So glad you like your shirts. <3
lol she just so *happened* to be watching your house…. I forgot about the binoculars! Yeah I remember when she kept a pair right by the window to “keep an eye on things”…. Luckily she seems to have given up using them as I haven’t seem them in a long time. OH! and I think my mom bought me The Dreamer Volume II online Yay! even more Dreamer!
We were informed that the deer are in the wrong place. Last year they were in the middle of the yard…….and this year they are on the side of the house – where the big tree hides them from her view. Also, we need lights on the porch and down the stairs.
I drooled all over my computer screen…
Everything is lovely and nothing hurts.
@Lora: I think you recommended a particular book about Joseph Warren a while back that sounds interesting but I can’t remember the title and author’s name. Please let me know so I can look it up at the library.
Look for info on this on monday. :)
Thanks, and while he won’t deserve it until 1780, maybe Benedict Arnold could be known as “General Stinkyfink”?
Arnold petitioned Congress (successfully) to get hard currency (not worthless Continental paper money) for Joseph Warren’s orphans. The oldest boy “Jose” was able to Harvard thanks to Benedict Arnold. SO I can never be totally loathed to that pox-ridden lobsterback. ;)
Well, that was nice of that treacherous vermin. I’ll just reserve “General Stinkyfink” for when Arnold actually started to deal with the British in 1780. The big irony of Arnold is that if he had died before that time, maybe at Saratoga, he’d most likely be remembered as a HERO of the Revolution.
He may have been doing it to look good as he didn’t have much of a relationship with Warren at all and it happened not long before he switched sides.
Another fantastic comic page, Lora!
YOU READ THIS!!!
Hey gang, just a heads up that monday morning I will be flying west to Washington state to visit my family for christmas (they moved, i stayed). I will still have compy acces so the INCENTIVE CAPTION!!!s will continue, but my presence will be diminished until i return on the 28th, so if i miss a preview, don’t be disappointed. I guess what I’m really saying is……. MERRY CHRISTMAS, DREAMERS!!!!
YOU CRY NOW!!!!
(and that was my attempt at soviet russia humor)
Pardon me, you will have to humor me a moment…. How is that humor?
*reads it, cries* (*is Russian by birth* XD) Happy Yuletide to you as well! :)