New Pages 22 & 23 this week! Tempers and voices are raising…
Earlier this week we posted a Frappr map. Stick your pin in it, with a picture and show us who you are and where you live. Put a picture of yourself with a copy of The Dreamer #1 in print, and you’ll be entered into a drawing to win an autographed sketchbook with a personalized drawing of your favorite character inside. Visit the last blog post or my MySpace profile to check it out.
Instead of the usual update next week, on account of the holiday (eat lots everyone!) I’ll be releasing the Thanksgiving Short Story that I wrote! It’ll be up for sale sometime next week. In today’s update Alan reminds us that he’s known Bea since she was 14. Ever wonder how they met? This story tells the tale! You’ll also get to meet Alan’s entire family–including the famous, and now deceased, Dr. Joseph Warren. If you love The Dreamer, you don’t want to miss this important backstory!
VOTE this week to see the cover drawing for the Thanksgiving Short Story!
Wow. Intense stuff! Poor Nathan! And poor Alan too! I’m just guessing that he’s super stressed out right now. It’s just a guess =>
Are the rain pictures on the first page of the new update showing time pass? If so, how much time is passing?
I just have to say first, love the comic! I am so utterly addicted and it is so hard to keep in my skin with just two pages a week. Second, the short story cover is darling! I can’t wait for the short story to come out.
Great work on everything!
Poor soldiers standing in yet more rain… how long DID that storm last? it almost looks like a short, really intense, flurry. and they didn’t even have tents… didn’t they get issued tents yet? or was that yet another of the Continental Army’s problems? you’d think an elite group like the Rangers would at least have some tents…
Poor Nathan…he looks almost as miserable as Alan looks mad. Speaking of which, he bottles things up until they explode, doesn’t he?
Brenda if they did have tents they wouldn’t have time to set them up before the rain started, you CAN’T do anything with wet canvas tents. Trust me I know.
Great pages and I really want to read that story!
Such an awesome update! Poor Alan though…He looks so sad and angry. And Nathan looks absolutely miserable! I like the rain scene. Great pages!!!
And the Thanksgiving cover is so cute!!! Wow…It’s kinda sad when you’re more excited about getting to buy a story than you are about actual Thanksgiving…
Question?
what happens to people NOT in the states and are unable to buy the Thanksgiving story? will there be a summary somewhere? PLEASE ;)
Here’s another “How much rain WAS that, anyway?” I’ve never seen ANY amount of rain have much effect on a fire of that size…
Oh no, things won’t get ‘physical’ will they? (hehe, I’m remembering a certain video interview/podcast) Man, the tension’s so thick you could cut it with a knife! Surrounded, outnumbered (and with a bad ass navy part of that) and Alan looking pretty pissed, I’m starting to think the redcoats aren’t the real threat.
Great looking pages. The first few panels with Bea really shine. The time lapse panels show that the weather seems to be following the mood of our American rebels. And who couldn’t love the slow build to the oncoming trainwreck?
Cait, I’m pretty sure anyone from anywhere will be able to buy the story. I bought Nathan’s story a couple of weeks ago with no problem at all and I don’t see why Thanksgiving would be any different.
YAY ALAN IS ALIVE! *jumps for joy* Kinda grumpy, though. I can’t believe he just turned away from Bea like that! Poor things, they’re not having an easy time of it.
Awwww, Alan in love is so cute. x3 He’s all worried and upset now. It’s adorable.
…Am I the only one here who thinks that was adorable…? >.>;;;
No Saknika, you aren’t the only one who thinks that Alan is cute when he’s all worried and upset. But I still *heart* Nathan. It’s not really his fault he couldn’t get her to safety, they were out manuevered the whole time. I hope Alan gets a talking to from Bea, I’ld be pissed if my boy just walked away from me in a huff.
Hey, Katie, I dunno if it was “in a huff”… I think poor Alan is a bit shell shocked.
I… think I would be too if I just killed a bunch of people up close and personal. :)
But it is definitely in Bea’s personality to let people know what she’s thinking. ;)
And Albone, (“I’m starting to think the redcoats aren’t the real threat.”) you got the whole point of issue #5 my friend. :)
And the rain that night was horrible. I pulled out my copy of 1776. Here’s what McCullough says, “Troops without tents also had little or no food. Fires were nearly impossible to keep going for cooking or warmth… Nearly all were hungry and soaked to the skin. In places in the trenches men stood in water up to their waists. Muskets and cartridges were almost impossible to keep dry. Soldiers, unable to stay awake any longer, fell asleep standing up right in the rain or sitting without cover in the mud.”
Sounds fun. ;) But Howe has been criticized for not advancing the attack once he had the Americans pinned in. But in weather like that, I don’t know how he could have.
who’s that nerd hotty in the green coat on page 23? XD
Oh good Alan didn’t do anything heroic and unadvised.
Ughhh fort life! Wahooo! Lots of rain and very little food!
And you really, really can’t do anything with wet cnavas tents. Except be smothered by them.
J’adore le bedraggled Nathan.
And I CANNOT WAIT for next week!
Alan, calm yourself down.
Sheesh.
He didn’t mean it. You have every right to be angry, but…ever think it was a little of Bea’s fault, too? :/ Don’t do something rash. We love you and all but PLEASE don’t do something rash. D:
Wow, it was intense this week. :( Although Alan’s love for Bea is pretty adorable. :)
I’m with Ellira; how could Alan just ignore Bea like that?! And poor Nathan–it’s not like he wanted to bring Bea and if it wasn’t for them, the Rangers would never have known about the ambush!
Still, I have to agree with a lot of people here that Alan is adorable upset….
Can’t wait for the next pages, Lora!
Lora! I just watched “Tinkerbell”, thought it was absolutely magical, AND got to see Chris’s name in the credits under Visual Prop Development! Tell him Good job for me, please? :3
I love this comic. (Poor Alan. He needs to go be with Bea) :D
I wanted to enter that contest you had in August, but I wasn’t able to finish my video in time. I just posted it on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OAKxMHvtWQ
Well Dani, he’s probably just upset with her because he is trying to keep her safe but she keeps sticking to him like sap to a tree…..although in all fairness, if not for her, things would be a lot worse for him and his men right now probably. Hopefully he’ll be more agreeable in the morning and not so willing to deliberately ignore her and to talk with Nathan with the business end of his musket (and how long has Bea been asleep for this dream now? Have they declared her comatose yet?) ^_^
Moving on, I saw Lora’s name in the new issue of Wizard Magazine! That’s right, on page 15 of the premiere comci book and comic-related magazine, a blurb appears at the end of a story about the IDW published series “Sir Apropos of Nothing” by Peter David that says:
For more IDW goodness, pick up Lora Innes’ The Dreamer #1, about a young girl’s mysterious nightmares about the Revolutionary War, in November
Not quite right about the nightmare part (I think), but everything else…….SPOT ON. Way to go, Lora! :)
Oh, and for the record, that’s the december 2008 issue with Scarlett Johansson or Spider-Woman on the cover, issue number 206, on sale now.
Is the compilation going to have the back story?
I asked my comic book people to hold some books for me and they didnt.
grrrr
Hey, Rebecca, I don’t know what sort of extra-goodies the graphic novel will have in it. In all honesty, I think this Thanksgiving story is too long to fit there though.
And Brent, I did see that. How cool is that? I dunno… a lot of what Bea’s been through feels pretty nightmarish, so I’ll take it. ^__^
And ReesiesLover!!!!!!! Thanks for showing me!!!!! It’s awesome!!!! Who knows, the fan art contest was so much fun we should definitely do it again!! :)
Whoo~! I would get mad if I were him too! He’s such a man! But still- this isn’t too cool, I don’t want them mad at each other. But this is exciting!
The colours of your pages for this week seeeeemed to have changed.
A little softer and less bold. It’s purdy.
Sorry I’ve been away for awhile, but I caught up and this is getting VERY VERY INTERESTING!!! I really liked the thunderstorm scene. Keep up the good work.