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Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep
Comic Summary: (W) Phillip K. Dick (A) Steven Dupre Covers: A) Dennis Calero, B) Bill Sienkiewicz, C) Scott Keating The book that inspired the film Blade Runner comes to BOOM! with backmatter by Warren Ellis! Visionary sci-fi author Philip K. Dick's Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? has been called 'a masterpiece ahead of its time, even today' and served as the basis for the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner. San Francisco lies under a cloud of radioactive dust. The World War 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, but look, sound, and think like humans, clever, and most of all, dangerous humans. Rick Deckard, Pris, The Voight-Kampff Test, Nexus 6 androids, the Tyrell Corporation: join BOOM! Studios as 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, groundbreaking 24-issue maxi-series experiment illustrated by acclaimed Wolf artist Steven Dupre for the science-fiction publishing event of the year! Covers by Bill Sienkiewicz, Dennis Calero, Moritat, and Scott Keating.
Codes: 84428400133500111 84428400133500121 APR090725 APR090726
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| Artist: | Steven Dupre |
| Author: | Phillip K. Dick |
| Cover Artist: | Various |
| Cover Artist: | Moritat |
| Release Date: | June 24, 2009 |
| In Stock? | Not currently available |
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Customer Reviews
One of the greatest SciFi adaptations I’ve ever read. This comic is text heavy but is worth every penny. This isn’t Blade Runner; it follows the plot of Dick’s Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep.
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Great way to get into works of Philip K. Dick. From one of the greatest sci-fi writers in history, we the readers are getting a special treatment as Boom! Studios releases the megaseries comic adaptation of the book that inspired Ridley Scott’s “Blade Runner.”
This is not the only work by Philip K. Dick to be turned into a film, but it is the first (that I’m aware of) to be adapted into a comic book. Other works by Mr. Dick to have been used for film adaptations include (but not limited to): “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” (Total Recall), “The Minority Report,” and “Paycheck.”
If you’re not into reading novels, for one reason or another, this is the perfect excuse to begin reading the works of Philip K. Dick.
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