Ok, I finished the last few pages of Dreams From Bunker Hill and now realise why it doesn't match up! I assumed it was a coherent series rather than individual works.
My apologies.
I'm confused because in The Road to Los Angeles, Bandini's father is dead, whereas in Dreams From Bunker Hill he is alive. This must mean that, in the fictional timeline, it is placed before The Road to Los Angeles, but that doesn't make sense because he is a teenager there but 21 years-old in...