IN OUR DREAMS AWAKE #1: A Cyberpunk/Fantasy Adventure
Jason Byron can’t wake up. Each moment feels real, yet each moment feels like a dream. The beginning of a dreampunk comic book series.
AWAKEN INTO THE DREAM
Jason Byron dreams of two lives. In one fantasy, magi reactionaries won, technology is banned, and Jason is a portrait painter hiding a contraband telescope. In the other world, he leads a cyberpunk gang amid a future of flooded cities and gilled aliens. When he closes his eyes in one world, he awakes in the next. Jason’s only desire is to wake up in the arms of his true love, Laura… Uh, or is it Fem’a Lin?… If only he knew which one was real?!
In a society ruled by mages, Jason Byron is a master artist trying to provide for his family. He has a secret heirloom, a telescope. With it he can see the stars, but can he see the trouble his illegal piece of technology will bring to his family?
In drowning London, Jason Byron deals in chum, the hottest drug among aliens. He and his true love are trying to escape their world. Can they keep the peace long enough to get away before the world is pulled beneath the waves?
In Our Dreams Awake is the story of what happens when both of those worlds begin to spin out of control. What happens when Jason no longer knows which world is the dream and which one is reality?
In Our Dreams Awake comes from co-creators John McGuire and Egg Embry. The first issue of this mini-series features two dreams, the first illustrated by Edgar Salazar with the second by Rolands Kalniņš. Both artists provide covers in addition to Sean Hill’s variant. Written for fans of love stories, dreampunk, steampunk, and cyberpunk, this comic offers an engaging mystery with amazing artwork. This story is about love and loss and asking the big questions:
Who am I?
Where do I belong?
Who do I love?
If you want to purchase In Our Dreams Awake Issue #1 in Digital/Signed Physical you can purchase it here.
Or you can buy the digital version of the comic at DriveThruComics
Check out the Reviews for the first issue:
Nicole D’Andria @ Comic Frontline’s interview with John McGuire
Gabriel Hernandez @ Comical/Opinions
Zak Webber @ Sci-Fi Comic Nexus