New Page #12!
If there is a tomorrow. Bea's time-altering plan might have them all waking up speaking English. Erm, wait...
I’m excited to announce that you I’ll be appearing at my first west coast show November 16-18! I’ll be in Burbank, CA for CTNx the Animation Expo. I’m sharing a table with my Paper Wings Podcast co-host Disney Character Designer, Chris Oatley. Details about panels and other events to be announced. But mark your calendars now!
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Caption is hilarious, vote preview isn’t working, and the page made me go yeep again. YAAAHHHH NATHAN RUN!!!!!!!!!! Why do I even. *inhales* Caera, you know what must happen. *huggles plushy and cries*
Ah, fixed. Sorry!
Teehee!
THE PLOT CHICKENS!!
*bites nails and awaits next update*
Ahaha! I forgot about that one.
Lol!
Thank you for that! :) I needed a laugh after holding my breath reading today’s update.
:)
Hmmmm. We thought Ms. Copeland was not proud of those avian plot attributes. But here she reminds us of her invention. Dr. John may have a side interest in psychiatry, or phrenzy in 18th c. parlance. Perhaps he can be of service to Ms. C.
Hurry Bea you must save Nathan!
IF YOU TOUCH NATHAN…. You better be prepared for the consequences!
And if you do catch Nathan, do not hurt him! There will be many fangirls who will be very angry!
On the other hand….
NATHAN! RUN!
Sorry I am also so spastic lately with this blog.. but I am wearing my nails down in fear for Nathan!!The suspense is killing me!
Ooooh you are playing a dangerous game. Going against all this raw Nathan-fangirl-ness, there will be consequences!!!
Who, me??
Or the Rogers group?
Rogers’ group. It was a lame excuse for a “How to Train Your Dragon” reference. lol
Oh noes! Hurry, Liz! Sic the gremlins on her! They’ll stop those chickens and keep things from moving forward!
As for you, Mr. Rogers….I will not be visiting your neighborhood if you keep going up those stairs, good sir. Consider yourself warned.
INCENTIVE CAPTION!!
Nurse: “Oh, silly me! That’s not where that thermometer goes!”
Bea: “…” 0_0
Ah, Mr. Roger’s neighborhood.
I have vague memories of that classic childhood tv show…
Lol, me too. I watched it when I was quite little, many moons ago…..
I went to school with his niece. He was a pretty stand up guy.
My mum wrote to him on us kids’ behalf when we were little and he wrote back. Would you believe my mum has lost the letter? :P
@Brent Don’t ruin Mr. Rogers for me by crossing my brain wires with that $%&#@^!!!
I have more than vague memories of that show. :) I loved that show more than most others (Sesame Street was tied for favorite with Mr. Rogers). It was the only way my parents could be assured I was quiet, well behaved, and mentally occupied until they were ready to entertain a child. :P
Fun fact. Last summer I was at a local park and Mr. McFeeley was there for some childrens fair and I got my picture with him. He’s a very nice man and he and Mr. Rodgers were real life best friends. The year that Mr. Rodgers passes away was the only year that Mr. McFeeley didn’t give out candy at his house for Halloween.(had a classmate in undergrad who lived in his neighborhood.)
P.S. “As for you, Mr. Rogers….I will not be visiting your neighborhood.” Wins the gold star award for best comment this update!
Who is keeping track? And what is the prize? First person to collect 10 gets your pick of The Dreamer short story downloads? How’s that?
Ok, now we need a score keeper!
I VOLUNTEER AS TRIBUTE!
Nice!! Do we start now? Or do you want to go back to the start of this issue and comb through the comments. I think I may’ve given one to Caera and David on the past few pages.
Let’s include those, then….not sure what that makes the tally, but fair’s fair.
Ok, let us know the official count when you have it, Colette!
Yeah I got one on the throwback page. XD
Haha! Wait, wait–seriously??
GOT IT!
So, I have one for the Rogers line, Caera has one for identifying what issue the “A Spy” page referenced, and David has one for his exercise in Russian takeovers
I was right! Thanks, Brent! Let the games begin!
*resists making all the Hunger Games jokes that come to mind*
May the odds be ever in your favor.
Mwahahahaha!
Did anyone else try to picture Robert Rogers wearing a cardigan sweater?
I call that for a chapter-ending VI!
“I just thought he was my friend… I didn’t know he was a hero.”
New favorite line.
I KNOW. Great line!
Poor Nathan! And I hope Bea is better at faking a fever than I am!
Oh Lora if you must kill off our beloved Nathan (silly “historical accuracy”) then at least let Bea be able to tell him that he’ll be remembered as a hero. After being caught and named as a dishonest man I’d like to see him go out with something happy to hold on to.
In return I can send you my Nathan-inspired poem from my creative writing class (I’m trying everything I’ve got)!!!!
*bawls*
“After being caught and named as a dishonest man I’d like to see him go out with something happy to hold on to.”
I think that’s what always got to me about him; how adamant and brave he was despite being so alone, and for all he knew, to be hated and forgotten. Ahh my dearest Nathan, if only you knew. <3
Oh, man…..now I’m wondering if Bea gets to him and he actually convinces her to leave him behind. I’m not sure I could take that…
I dunno, that would kind of ruin the awesome and just make it insane.
Very cool, if I am in town we will totally have to get together!
I already thought of this! Burbank isn’t too far for you, right? Just city traffic? I won’t have a car.
NATHAN! Don’t die like history’s been telling us for the past 200 or so years!
And if only I didn’t have to live in this mosquito-infested, typhoon-frequented country, I might have had a chance to go to even one convention with you in it. But of course, if I didn’t live here and get into a chain of events called life leading to my obsession with The Dreamer, then I might not have cared at all. Oh well. xD
I would love to come to you! There are a lot of Dreamer fans in your part of the world!
So Bea’s told Liz quite a bit about her dreams after all? For some reason I assumed, beyond the “OMG this hot guy in a tricorn hat kissed me till I fainted” first dream, I didn’t think she had shared many of the specific details with anybody except Yvette. Maybe I’m forgetting something.
And despite her best efforts to change history, I really doubt 18th century Bea is going to get to Nathan in time.
No, every time she has tried to talk to Liz about the dreams, Liz shuts her up. Bea isn’t in the mood to stop and explain things to Liz at the moment. She has more important things to worry about. Liz is a bright girl. I’ll bet she puts it together.
I don’t see how she could get to him in time either. I just expect she’ll make a mess out of things and upset a few folks. :( Poor Bea! She only wants to help make the fangirls happy!
Just found this on Wikipedia:
“An account of Nathan Hale’s capture was written by Consider Tiffany, a Connecticut shopkeeper and Loyalist, and obtained by the Library of Congress. In Tiffany’s account, Major Robert Rogers of the Queen’s Rangers saw Hale in a tavern and recognized him despite his disguise. After luring Hale into betraying himself by pretending to be a patriot himself, Rogers and his Rangers apprehended Hale near Flushing Bay, in Queens, New York.[6]“
And this bit too:
British General William Howe had established his headquarters in the Beekman House in a rural part of Manhattan, on a rise between 50th and 51st Streets between First and Second Avenues[7] Hale reportedly was questioned by Howe, and physical evidence was found on him. Rogers provided information about the case. According to tradition, Hale spent the night in a greenhouse at the mansion. He requested a Bible; his request was denied. Sometime later, he requested a clergyman. Again, the request was denied.
*sniff sniff*
Be careful with that Consider Tiffany quote. I have a guest blog from a historian coming up for you guys and she’s going to tell you why.
For now: reliability of source matters!! Not all accounts are made equal. This is why Internet research is dangerous if you start and stop there. It is great to get overviews, read different theories, and have things explained. But you have to get past the Internet to find real answers in your research.
Hehehe I remember them talking about Consider Tiffany at the symposium.
The SAR has some really good info on Nathan, I got a great deal of info for a paper from their site.
Yes they do!
“Consider Tiffany”? Gotta <3 those 18th century names!
Poor guy. I can never say his name without laughing inside.
That’s a guy? *snickers endlessly*
Remind me to tell you all the story about Tinker Kelly and how I had to explain to all my coworkers the masculine origins of the name Tinker…
@Caera: We’ll be waiting…..next post
One of my coworkers had business with a guy named Tinker Kelly. No one believed he was a guy and told her she had to check on linkedin. She told them she had and they still didn’t believe her, or thought his parents must have really hated him.
I had to explain to them before Tinker Bell, the name Tinker was both a surname and a boys name, of English origins. Tinkers were tinsmiths of sorts. I got all in depth on how Tinker Bell got her name and gave them all sorts of background and online information about the name, etc. And then I said Mr. Kelly’s name was probably a family name, since it’s uncommon now, and when we found out it was his middle name, I said “Well he obviously chose to go with it so no need to worry!” :)
My coworkers say I read too much, knowing all that info. lol
I’m having a heart attack over here! I can’t wait til the next update……..
Remember your Dr. John approved chamomile tea!!
Thank you for reminding me about the mango tea my sis packed for me! :D
How many more pages of “GARGH!! AHHHH!! *whimper*” do we have left??? :( This is killing me!!
But it’s all very good, Lora. :)
Erm… there are two and a half issues left in Volume 3. So, uh, a lot.
Oh dear…do you think they’ll let me install a defibrillator in my office to restart my heart every time it stops for sheer worry??
Julie…That’s pretty much my reaction in a nutshell.
I wish I could post pictures! I just Nathanified my mother’s classroom!
(she’s an American history teacher)
Facebook!
I’m on it! Haha
link when it’s up!
So I was like 12 when I read a book about Nathan Hale and fell in love with him and cried when he died. Darn it Lora, now I’m going through the same thing, only you’ve made me twice the fan girl since then. :’(
If Bea changes history, will Reapers show up and cracks in the universe appear?
Wibbly wobbly timey wimey
*dies laughing*
I doubt Reapers will show up. They only come every 50,000 years or so, regardless of the state of the timeline.
…Fggghh. I love you even more now. The last thing I expected to find on this webcomic was a reference to Mass Effect.
(By the way hi, for the first time to you anyway. I’ve been one of those silent readers.)
Alright Bea, all you need to do is go to sleep now!
Can’t be too difficult right?
Ransom is an awesome name.
It’s time for Bea to go Marty McFly on history’s butt!
Where’s her floating skateboard?
HOVERBOARD!!!! :D
Don’t worry about that….she’s got a Pit Bull now >:-)
(I loved that little girl)