History ComicBook / PoetAndersonTheDreamWalker

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: A potential reading of what happened to [[spoiler: Jonas and Alan's mother as well as Ayo]].

''Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker'' is the ComicBook {{Prequel}} to the [[WesternAnimation/PoetAndersonTheDreamWalker animated short film of the same name]] and part of a larger multimedia initiative from rock supergroup/art project Music/AngelsAndAirwaves. The comic is published by Magnetic Press, written by Tom [=DeLonge=] and Ben Kull, who also wrote the short film, and illustrated by French comics artist Djet Stéphane, who has previously had titles published by Ankama, the cross-media studio behind WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}} and VideoGame/{{Dofus}}.

If you're jonesing for similar band related comics: compare to ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks[[note]]involving a CyberPunk city similar to Genesis with nods to Film/BladeRunner, surreal imagery and cryptic presentation[[/note]] and contrast to [[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys]][[note]]also involving a CyberPunk city with nods to Anime/{{Akira}} and surreal imagery, but considerably more grounded and gritty than Poet or Toy Works[[/note]]. As for similar dream related comics: compare to Webcomic/{{Dreamkeepers}}[[note]]Beings with special powers called Dreamkeepers that serve as dream protectors for sleeping humans go up against hellish nightmare creatures and evil Dreamkeepers...only all of them are cartoon animals, none of them are aware of the human world, and neither humans or Dreamkeepers can travel between worlds[[/note]] and Webcomic/TurboDefiant[[note]]Beings with special powers called Defiants that serve as dream protectors for sleeping humans go up against hellish nightmare creatures and evil Defiants and travel between worlds...only some Defiants, good and evil, can turn into giant robots. Some of them, the titular Turbo Defiants, can turn into giant robots in the real world[[/note]].

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Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker is the ComicBook {{Prequel}} to the [[WesternAnimation/PoetAndersonTheDreamWalker animated short film of the same name]] and part of a larger multimedia initiative from rock supergroup/art project Music/AngelsAndAirwaves. The comic is published by Magnetic Press, written by Tom [=DeLonge=] and Ben Kull, who also wrote the short film, and illustrated by French comics artist Djet Stéphane, who has previously had titles published by Ankama, the cross-media studio behind WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}} and VideoGame/{{Dofus}}.

!! This work provides examples of:

* DarkerAndEdgier: Issue 1 starts in a similar vein to the short film that the comics are a prequel to, but the ending brings the series into this territory.

* StuffedIntoTheFridge: A potential reading of what happened to [[spoiler: Jonas and Alan's mother]].
* PlotHole: Ayo is fascinated by the concept of rain, as it doesn't naturally occur in the Dream World the same as the Waking World. In the Poet short film, released the year before the comics, it does rain in Genesis.

* CriticalResearchFailure: In issue 2, it's explained that REM had possessed Kublai Khan in the Yuan Dynasty. This would be fine in of itself, but the year that REM possessed Khan was given as 1620 AD...around the time of the [[DynastiesFromShangToQing Ming Dynasty]]. Kublai Khan's reign was from 1260 to 1294, meaning that the authors of the book Jonas and Alan were reading from (or Tom and Ben) were off by ''over 300 years''.

* Foreshadowing: How does the Dream Walker that comes to rescue Jonas, Alan, and Ayo know that Jonas and Alan are brothers along with their last name if they only just met? [[spoiler: She's their mom!]]

* UnreliableExpositor: Alan admits to being a beginner lucid dreamer, but not everything he claims about the Dream World's internal logic is true. He claims that nobody is able to voluntarily wake themselves up from a dream, but later, Jonas ends up doing it himself.

If you're jonesing for similar band related comics: compare to ComicBook/FallOutToyWorks[[note]]involving a CyberPunk city similar to Genesis with nods to Film/BladeRunner, surreal imagery and cryptic presentation[[/note]] and contrast to [[Music/DangerDaysTheTrueLivesOfTheFabulousKilljoys The True Lives of the Fabulous Killjoys]][[note]]also involving a CyberPunk city with nods to Anime/{{Akira}} and surreal imagery, but considerably more grounded and gritty than Poet or Toy Works[[/note]].

* DreamWalker: The Dream World and its hub city of Genesis is explained as the result of the collective dreaming subconscious of humanity. Lucid dreamers are able to experience the collective dreams of everyone else given form as a specific place. The in-universe explaination of a Dream Walker being a Guardian type Lucid Dreamer still stands.

* HowWeGotHere: Issue 1's first place starts with Alan in the grasp of a Night Terror and Jonas in full Poet mode, with Alan begging for Jonas to wake up. We then jump to the week before and go from there.

* TrailersAlwaysSpoil: The preview issue summaries for the first two issues don't spoil much and it's expected that Jonas will have to face off against REM in the final third issue. The preview text for the third issue does spoil, months before its July release, [[spoiler: the death of Jonas and Alan's parents]].

* CatapultNightmare: Jonas catapults awake after he escapes from the Night Stalker prison

* Animesque: More obvious than in the short film, but tempered by European influence.

The mysterious REM and his army of Night Stalkers are setting out to find souls for him to hijack a human body and take on the Waking World. Jonas, Alan, and Ayo find themselves in the conflict between the heroic Dream Walkers and REM as Jonas discovers powers beyond expectation. He's not just a mere lucid dream, he's a ''Poet''.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: Ayo.

* UnreliableExpositor: Alan admits to being a beginner lucid dreamer, but not everything he claims about the Dream World's internal logic is true. He claims that nobody is able to voluntarily wake themselves up from a dream, but later, [[spoiler: Jonas]] ends up doing it himself.

Poet Anderson: The Dream Walker is the ComicBook {{Prequel}} to the [[WesternAnimation/PoetAndersonTheDreamWalker animated short film of the same name]] and part of a larger [[Franchise/PoetAndersonTheDreamWalker multimedia initiative]] from rock supergroup/art project Music/AngelsAndAirwaves. The comic is published by Magnetic Press, written by Tom [=DeLonge=] and Ben Kull, who also wrote the short film, and illustrated by French comics artist Djet Stéphane, who has previously had titles published by Ankama, the cross-media studio behind WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}} and VideoGame/{{Dofus}}.

* PlotHole: Ayo is fascinated by the concept of rain, as it doesn't naturally occur in the Dream World the same as the Waking World. In the Poet short film, it does rain in Genesis.