BOOM! Studios to release Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

[sugarsickness]

http://blog.boom-studios.net/2009/04/boom-studios-announces-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/

THE BOOK
THAT INSPIRED THE MOVIE
BLADE RUNNER
COMES TO BOOM!
PHILIP K. DICK’S
DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP?
24 ISSUE MAXI-SERIES
STARTS THIS JUNE

Issue #1 Includes Backmatter by Warren Ellis
First Issue Features Covers by Denis Calero, Bill Sienkiewicz, Scott Keating & Moritat

I love Bill Sienkiewicz' art and want his cover. I love Philip Dick and want this series. <3 Boom

[Kenny Wisdom]

Oh, wow. Thanks for posting this. BOOM! seems to be doing a lot of interesting things this year.

[miyamotofreak]

Yeah, BOOM! is really interesting. I just wish all their non-children's books weren't so pricey. But everything they release is damn tempting. I'll definitely pick up the trades.

[thenextchampion]

Boom! is quickly becoming the 'most improved comic publisher' this year.

Cant wait for this to come out

[cenquist]

May have to read the book again, plus watch the movie before I start this series!

[sugarsickness]

May have to read the book again, plus watch the movie before I start this series!

I've read a few Dick novels but not this one, so I picked it up earlier today and will be reading it in the next few days. I am very excited for this, Boom never seems to let me down (Quite possibly my favorite publisher, aside from maybe Vertigo).

[comicbookchris]

Is Warren Ellis also writing the script as well? Cause if anyone can write in the twisted fashion of PKD, its Ellis.

Also, I hope this paves the way for more Dick adaptations, like The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, or my personal favorite, Ubik! :D

[dierect-current]

Like the sound of this, although it better be good. There is so much bagage with this book, what with Bladerunner and all. Be carefull Boom. Please.

[sugarsickness]

Is Warren Ellis also writing the script as well? Cause if anyone can write in the twisted fashion of PKD, its Ellis.

Also, I hope this paves the way for more Dick adaptations, like The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch, or my personal favorite, Ubik! :D

it only says BACKMATTER of some sort by Ellis in the first issue. I have not been able to find who is actually scripting, I dont think its listed there.

[Jon_Samuelson]

Like the sound of this, although it better be good. There is so much bagage with this book, what with Bladerunner and all. Be carefull Boom. Please.

Sure, there's baggage I guess. But the book is so different from Blade Runner that I think if they follow the book more closely, there needn't be any comparison whatsoever to the movie. And with no comparison, the baggage shouldn't hinder them at all.

[johnferrigno]

Supposedly, they are using the actual text from the book, as "Philip K. Dick" is lsted as the writer of the comic, with Ellis doing some "back matter" whatever that is. I read the book about 2 years ago and loved it. I may read it again before the comic series starts to refresh my memory, but apparantly it's going to be a straight adaptation of the novel, with no Blade Runner in it.

(For those of you who have not read it, the movie Blade Runner is vastly different from the book. I love the movie, but it's got very little in common with the book.)

[cormano]

Twenty four issues seems like a lot for that book. I love the book and I look forward to reading the comic when it is eventually collected if I hear good things. The covers certainly look nice.

[johnferrigno]

If this is successful, is BOOM! planning on doing more PKD adaptations?

[Diabhol]

http://blog.boom-studios.net/2009/04/boom-studios-announces-do-androids-dream-of-electric-sheep/



What a waste. The novel was fucking horrible; so bad it almost put me off PKD altogether.

[sugarsickness]

What a waste. The novel was fucking horrible; so bad it almost put me off PKD altogether.
You seem to be in the minority. I still have yet to read it, though. Bt yeah. Tiny minority I think.

[johnferrigno]

What a waste. The novel was fucking horrible; so bad it almost put me off PKD altogether.

I'm curious as to what you didn't like about it? I've heard of people reading it and not liking it becuase it "wasn't Blade Runner." When you're expecting one thing and get something else, that may turn people off of it. I can see that.

But what didn't you like about it? Believe me, I'm not going to argue with you about it, I am just always interested to hear why somebody didn't like something that I enjoyed a great deal. Opposing viewpoints of subjective media are very interesting to me. Plus, your original statement implies that you enjoyed OTHER PKD stories, which makes me even more curious as to what your problem with Electric Sheep was.

[CammyKnoxville]

24 issues at what I'm assuming is going for $4 an issue? That's $96 right there. As much as this series sounds good to me, I'll wait for the trades.

[cadgers]

24 issues at what I'm assuming is going for $4 an issue? That's $96 right there. As much as this series sounds good to me, I'll wait for the trades.

Wow. When you do the math like that your right. Definitely going to trade wait this.

[Diabhol]

But what didn't you like about it?

Deckard was intolerably boring, the story moved at a snail's pace and it seemed as if there was no point to anything. Nothing mattered, because everyone who was human was so hideously depressed that it was a wonder they didn't suicide.

I can't enjoy a book when I just want to murder everyone in it for the crime of being dull.

[Diabhol]

You seem to be in the minority. I still have yet to read it, though. Bt yeah. Tiny minority I think.

This is very true. Virtually no one agrees with me on this book.

[johnferrigno]

Deckard was intolerably boring, the story moved at a snail's pace and it seemed as if there was no point to anything. Nothing mattered, because everyone who was human was so hideously depressed that it was a wonder they didn't suicide.

I can't enjoy a book when I just want to murder everyone in it for the crime of being dull.

Well, they were so miserably depressed because of the general quality of their life. Anybody who had the means to leave Earth already did so. All that was left on planet during this story were the people who were too poor and downtrodden to get off the rock. So naturally, they are going to be depressed.

But it's a valid point. Obviously not a book for everybody. it is pretty damn depressing, which can turn a lot of people off to it.

[sugarsickness]

24 issues at what I'm assuming is going for $4 an issue? That's $96 right there. As much as this series sounds good to me, I'll wait for the trades.

Eh, I guess, but by that logic why would you buy any books monthly then?

[CammyKnoxville]

Eh, I guess, but by that logic why would you buy any books monthly then?

Well most of the books I get are still $3 a pop (not for much longer, I know), and I know if I don't like something I can just drop it. But if I'm halfway through a maxi-series like this and decide I don't want to keep paying $4 for what I'm getting, then it'll go on ebay for much less then I originally paid for.

But that's just me.

[sugarsickness]

Well most of the books I get are still $3 a pop (not for much longer, I know), and I know if I don't like something I can just drop it. But if I'm halfway through a maxi-series like this and decide I don't want to keep paying $4 for what I'm getting, then it'll go on ebay for much less then I originally paid for.

But that's just me.so if it were 3 bucks an issue, the total still being undoubtedly a big jump from the price of the eventual trades, it would be more acceptable to buy monthly?

[CammyKnoxville]

so if it were 3 bucks an issue, the total still being undoubtedly a big jump from the price of the eventual trades, it would be more acceptable to buy monthly?

Well if I had to choose between spending $96 on a series compared to $72 on a series, I'm going to be going with the latter, and with the $24 I saved buy 8 more single issues of something else (or a couple of said trades when traded).

[Diabhol]

But it's a valid point. Obviously not a book for everybody. it is pretty damn depressing, which can turn a lot of people off to it.

Having at least one likable character would also help. :)

[johnferrigno]

Having at least one likable character would also help. :)

HA! I liked Deckard......