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"Blade Runner’ Inspiration, Philip K. Dick’s ‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep’ Headed To Comics
The Philip K. Dick story “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?,” which served as the inspiration for the 1982 science-fiction film “Blade Runner,” will be adapted into a 24-issue comic book series by publisher Boom Studios.
Announced earlier today, the series will adapt the award-winning story by “mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel.” Artist Steven Dupre (”Wolf”) will provide interior art for the series, and you can expect to see the first issue hit shelves in June. “Transmetropolitan” and “FreakAngels” writer Warren Ellis — no stranger to celebrated science-fiction storytelling — will provide “backmatter” in each issue.
Boom also provided a trio of cover images from the upcoming series.
For those not familiar with the story (or the film it spawned), Boom provided the following synopsis of the project:
“‘Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?’ takes place in a world where San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War has killed millions, driving entire species to extinction and sending mankind off-planet. Those who remained coveted any living creature, and for people who couldn’t afford one, companies built incredibly realistic fakes: horses, birds, cats, sheep… even humans. Rick Deckard is an officially sanctioned bounty hunter tasked to find six rogue androids — they’re machines, that not only look, sound, and think like humans, but are clever, and most of all, dangerous just like humans.”
Is your interest piqued? Think Philip K. Dick’s tale will translate well to comics? What other science-fiction classics should get the comics treatment?
http://blog.boom-studios.net/2009/04/boom-studios-announces-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/
Source: http://splashpage.mtv.com/2009/04/07/blade-runner-inspiration-philip-k-dicks-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-headed-to-comics/ |
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Charming chap Chip Mosher has provided a preview PDF of Boom! Studios’ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #1, available in finer comic shops this Wednesday, and I’m gonna review it! As an opening page states, “This series is the complete text of Philip K. Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, presented in graphic form.” So how does the intriguing experiment of comic book translation fare?
More here: http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2009/07/13/do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep-1-review/ |
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DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? #1
by Chad Nevett
REVIEW:
“Still, you wouldn’t want to see my novel on the screen because it is full of people conversing, plus the personal problems of the protagonist. These matters don’t translate to the screen. And why translate them, since a novel is a story in words, whereas a movie is an event that moves?” Philip K. Dick wrote that in 1981, discussing his novel “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” and the film adaptation “Blade Runner,” which merely used Dick’s novel as a jumping off point for a related-yet-entirely-different tale.
More here: http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=user_review&id=1206 |
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THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FILM BLADE RUNNER COMES TO BOOM! Worldwide best-selling sci-fi writer Philip K. Dick's award-winning DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? has been called "a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today" and served as the basis for the film BLADE RUNNER. BOOM! Studios is honored to present the complete novel transplanted into the comic book medium, mixing all new panel-to-panel continuity with the actual text from the novel in an innovative, ground-breaking series experiment illustrated by acclaimed Warhammer artist Tony Parker! Deluxe hardcover editions ¬¬— Volume 1 of 6.
ISBN13: 978-1-60886-500-0
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