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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!
Calvin’s not quite sure what’s going on. Why is Chad Mailer showing such a sudden interest in him? He’d noticed Calvin’s costume a few times before, but he didn’t think that Chad would actually care enough to have a conversation with him.
Calvin’s impressed with Chad’s confidence, even just in walking through a crowded room. He knows how to carve a path between the huddled shoulders that pack the place. If Calvin were left to his own devices, he’d stop awkwardly at the first cluster of people who came upon and mumble “Excuse me” beneath his breathe until he gave up and went home.
It’s not like Calvin knows anyone else at the Omni Hotel bar anyway. He just thought it was The Thing To Do. And it is kind of cool to have a professional comic book writer take…
