Innes, Lora – The Dreamer #2

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The Dreamer #2

Well, I regretted not getting more issues of this series after SPACE, and now all I have to regret is that I chose to get two more issue of the series instead of just getting the graphic novel.  Oh well, live and learn, and forget, and make the same mistake, and then maybe learn the next time I see her at a con.  In this issue Beatrice tries explaining to her friends that she’s probably not going to go out with the guy she’s liked since 8th grade because she’s in love with a man in her dreams… and it goes about as well as you would expect.  Her friends eventually convince her that she’s being ridiculous, and it all leads up to one of the more wonderfully awkward attempts at asking somebody out that I’ve ever seen, and this is coming from somebody who has been involved in more than his fair share of such things.  Go ahead, guess which end of it I was on, I’ll never tell.  Hint: I run a website about small press comics.  Ahem.  Anyway, Beatrice is still having her vivid dreams (one in class and one right before her big date in this issue), and as such we get to learn a lot more about the man she’s in love with in her dreams and their “history”.  Lora is trying to get this into high schools, and I have no trouble seeing it fitting right in.  It’s smart enough for an adult but it is a story about high school kids and, from my increasingly hazy memory of the time, it’s pretty accurate.  This is one of those rare books you could actually share with your teenage child, assuming said teenage child is still speaking to you.  $3.99