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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!
When he finally sees the fans approaching, Chad slides himself upright in the hard metal folding chair and corrects his posture. He’s been sitting at the signing station of the IDW Publishing booth for a half-hour already, without a single scrawling of ink to show for it, all the while hoping that some eager admirers would arrive and brighten up his day. He cracks his neck to the right and adjusts the tented paper nameplate in front of him that reads “Chad Mailer: Author of Night Shift,” then straightens the piles of books on the table: an anthology of Ghostbuster comic books with one 8-page story written by him, and a trade paperback collection of My Little Pony comic books that Chad co-wrote, which is really just a nice way of saying that he filled in the dialogue for a detailed story outline that he received from corporate…
