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Update 15: Update #15: Happy Halloween! · Scarred Lands Player's Guide for Savage Worlds

November 6, 2025 at 5:49 PM

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Over at Travis Legge's Scarred Lands (SWADE) Kickstarter, he shared a write-up about In Our Dreams Awake in his Halloween update. #comicbooks #dreampunk #cyberpunk
www.kickstarter.com/projects/oan...

Hello all! It's Halloween, so I will be taking some time this evening to accompany my grandkids as they go on a quest for candy. Since I'll be tied up later, I figured it would be best to get this upd...

Update 7: It's the Last Week! What's this? Another Podcast Appearance! · In Our Dreams Awake #3 - A Dreampunk Comic

November 5, 2025 at 2:15 PM

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More wonderful people talking about In Our Dreams Awake!

Check out Issue #3 over at Kickstarter!

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

#steampunk
#cyberpunk
#kickstarter
#indiecomics
#comics
#indycomics
#kickstartercomics

November 5, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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In Our Dreams Awake issues 1 to 3 (of 4)! John Robert McGuire talks on another podcast about this #dreampunk #comicbook Kickstarter ends on Friday!
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

I'm currently in the mode of the same sentence running through my brain in two very different ways:

November 4, 2025 at 5:04 PM

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In Our Dreams Awake #3 is funded! John Robert McGuire shares another podcast in which he discusses the #ComicBook, and talk about Travis Legge's latest Kickstarter for Scarred Lands (SWADE). #dreampunk
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

October 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM

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In Our Dreams Awake #1 to #3 - A #Dreampunk #ComicBook - reached its funding goal on #Kickstarter. Thanks to everyone who believes in this dream! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

Jason Byron lives in a world of magic and a cyberpunk world. Which one is a dream? Which one is a nightmare? Issues 1 to 3 available.

October 29, 2025 at 3:55 PM

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The restless nights...
The dreams call to him...
Or is this the dream...
And the other reality?

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

#dreampunk
#indycomics
#comics
#cyberpunk
#steampunk

October 29, 2025 at 2:19 AM

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In Our Dreams Awake #3 (of 4 #dreampunk #comicbooks) is close to funding, 16% to go! Check out the story of Jason Byron, a fantasy artist/cyberpunk gangster that can't wake up! www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

Jason Byron lives in a world of magic and a cyberpunk world. Which one is a dream? Which one is a nightmare? Issues 1 to 3 available.

In Our Dreams Awake – A Cat’s Tale - The Official Website of Author John R. McGuire

October 24, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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John Robert McGuire talks about the cats of In Our Dreams Awake #2 and #3. How did #cyberpunk cats land in this #comicbook? Rolands Kalniņš drew these pets into this #dreampunk comic, and they rock! Check out the story including links to the Kickstarter campaign.
johnrmcguire.com/in-our-dream...

We're still in the midst of the Kickstarter for Issue #3 of In Our Dreams Awake. If you haven't had the chance to venture over to the page, be sure to do so. With this being the penultimate issue, thi...

johnrmcguire.com

October 22, 2025 at 7:41 PM

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At EN World, I talk about #TTRPG #crowdfunding projects like Pendragon Classic, Dark Forest, RagnaBorg, Fizzwip's Treasury, Cosmic Corsairs, Huckleberry: A Wyrd West RPG, Under the Shadow of the Noon-Day Witch, WRASTLEVANIA, The Spy Game, and more.
www.enworld.org/threads/rpg-...

RPG CROWDFUNDING NEWS – Pendragon, Dark Forest, RAGNABORG, and more

This week’s crowdfunding sampler looks at campaigns that close between November 6 to 12. Beyond this sampling, there are two notable events occurring in the ecosystem of TTRPG crowdfunding. After acqu...

Update 3: The Other John McGuire’s TTRPG Kickstarter - UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE NOON-DAY WITCH · In Our Dreams Awake #3 - A Dreampunk Comic

October 22, 2025 at 7:30 PM

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Under the Shadow of the Noon-Day Witch is an OSR adventure with greed, political intrigue, and magic by John "Hambone" McGuire. In his update, he discusses the Sickest Witch RPG, Brian Colin's Vast Grimm Kickstarter, and the #comicbook, In Our Dreams Awake. www.kickstarter.com/projects/joh...

October 20, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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In the Fantasy World, the Magi have need of a painter to help record the strange craft which has crashed in their lands...

But this knowledge comes with a price.

www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

#dreampunk
#indycomics
#comics
#cyberpunk
#steampunk

October 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM

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In the latest update for John Robert McGuire's #comicbook Kickstarter, we talk about the other John McGuire's #TTRPG Kickstarter for UNDER THE SHADOW OF THE NOON-DAY WITCH. #TheManyJohnMcGuires
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

With a limited number of names to choose from, there's bound to be more than one person with the same moniker. In Our Dreams Awake features two visions of Jason Byron, one a painter in a fantasy world...

Invincible RPG: Reviewing The Quickstart With A Comic Artist & An Author

October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM

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At EN World, I talk to comic book artist Steven Cummings (Star Wars: Mandalorian) and comic book author John McGuire about the free Invincible RPG quickstart. #ComicBook #Kickstarter
www.enworld.org/threads/invi...

A tabletop roleplaying game based on Invincible by Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley is crowdfunding on Kickstarter. Skybound Entertainment and Free League Publishing are partnering to tran...

October 14, 2025 at 8:11 PM

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In Our Dreams Awake #3 - Jason Byron lives in a world of mystical tyranny and another world, a drown cyberpunk horror. Both are nightmares, but which one is a dream? This cyberpunk/dreampunk/fantasy comic book series is available on Kickstarter.
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

Jason Byron lives in a world of magic and a cyberpunk world. Which one is a dream? Which one is a nightmare? Issues 1 to 3 available.

October 14, 2025 at 1:31 PM

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@johnmcguire.bsky.social Edgar Salazar, Rolands Kalniņš, and I tell tales of Jason Byron. In love, a painter, a ganglord, asleep, what is real?! The 3rd issue in our 4-issue series. #Dreampunk #Cyberpunk #Fantasy #Comicbooks
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

Jason Byron lives in a world of magic and a cyberpunk world. Which one is a dream? Which one is a nightmare? Issues 1 to 3 available.

October 10, 2025 at 1:42 PM

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In Our Dreams Awake #3 (of 4). Jason Byron is a painter in a world of mages, he's a gangleader in a world of aliens, he's in-love but with different women in each world, he is asleep, and he needs to wake up! #Dreampunk, #Cyberpunk, #Fantasy #comicbooks
www.kickstarter.com/projects/iod...

Jason Byron lives in a world of magic and a cyberpunk world. Which one is a dream? Which one is a nightmare? Issues 1 to 3 available.

Sliders [ 1995 ] S3E3 Electric Twister Acid Test + In Our Dreams Awake KICKSTARTER

October 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM

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On Youtube, I join Carefree Black Nerd, Robert K. Jeffrey II, and John Robert McGuire for the Sliders podcast, Stumbling Through the Multiverse. We talk about the show and review an episode as well as the upcoming comic book, In Our Dreams Awake. #Sliders
youtu.be/n2c-kajjqX8

YouTube video by Carefree Black Nerd

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October 8, 2025 at 2:30 PM

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At EN World, I talk about the Invincible TTRPG with Steven Cummings (comic book artist on Star Wars: The Mandalorian, Star Wars: Ahsoka, and Wayward) and John McGuire (comic book co-author of The Crossing and In Our Dreams Awake).
www.enworld.org/threads/invi...

Invincible RPG: Talking Superheroes With A Comic Artist & An Author

Robert Kirkman, Cory Walker, and Ryan Ottley’s Image Comics series Invincible is coming to tabletop. Crowdfunding via Kickstarter, Skybound Entertainment and Free League Publishing are turning the Inv...

Talking Vast Grimm, Raptor Ruckus, and the Creature Curation Printer with Brian Colin

October 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM

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At Geek Native, I talk to Brian Colin about the #VastGrimm #Kickstarter, the starter boxed set, Raptor Ruckus, printing #RPGZines, and more. #TTRPG
www.geeknative.com/205368/talki...

Go behind the scenes with Brian Colin! Learn about the Vast Grimm – Escaping Stasis Kickstarter, the new modular format, expanding the lore, the impact of his industrial press, and a possible Raptor R...

www.geeknative.com

October 1, 2025 at 1:40 PM

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At EN World, I talk about the systems and what a hypothetical Death Race 2000 TTRPG might involve. #TTRPG
www.enworld.org/threads/wher...

Where’s The Death Race 2000 Roleplaying Game? Part Two

Where is the TTRPG that never existed but should have, the Death Race RPG? In the last article, we talked about the inspiration behind a hypothetical game based on Roger Corman’s Death Race 2000 and/o...