TRUE BELIEVERS: Chapter 22 — You Drink, You Draw, You Destroy

True Believers is a full-length novel by Thom Dunn, based on his play of the same name. It’s a satirical tale of star-crossed lovers, aspiring comic book creators, crazed fanboys, cybernetically enhanced humans, women in refrigerators, real-life superheroes, and girls who dress like Slave Leia as their lives intertwine over a whirlwind weekend at a comic book convention in the early 2010s.

The book will be serialized on Medium throughout the month of April 2020. Here is the first chapter. Check back every day for more chapters!

The stupid bar is filled with stupid crap from stupid Doctor Who (but only the new stuff — none of the original series things, at least as Billy recognizes from the few episodes he’s seen). The stupid stereo plays some stupid pop song way too stupid loud and it’s dark and stupid inside and stupid Calvin has that stupid look on his face with his twisted tongue wagging up and out from the right side of his mouth as he draws his stupid pictures in his stupid notebook with his stupid pencil and they’ve already been there for two stupid hours and the whole stupid thing is stupid.

“I still don’t get it.” Billy pouts as he folds his arms across his chest. He’s only somewhat embarrassed by the Three Wolf Moon shirt he’s wearing. It’s his favorite shirt, sure, but he hates…