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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!
The boozy heat of adolescent scotch flickers like fire at Ted’s temples. He only had two drinks before he left his apartment and made his way over to the Omni Hotel and — okay well maybe the second one was more like two-and-a-half-fingers’ worth of sweet, smokey goodness. But still. He needed it.
Especially considering the way he’s swarmed by friends and fans alike just as soon as he enters the lobby, where he arrives to find the party already raging. He does his best to brush each one off with his most polite aplomb; certainly the whiskey helps to mitigate the personal and professional guilt. He worries briefly that his dismissiveness might come back to bite him in the ass on Sunday Bloody Sunday.
