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, 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 us for the publishing event of the year! "After I finished reading the screenplay for BLADE RUNNER, I got the novel out and looked through it. The two reinforce each other, so that someone who started with the novel would enjoy the movie and someone who started with the movie would enjoy the novel." -- Philip K. Dick
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THE BOOK THAT INSPIRED THE FILM BLADE RUNNER COMES TO COMICS! 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 24-issue maxi-series experiment.
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"...impressively, it works... it's a great job." --io9.com
"Artist Tony Parker does a solid job...He's given the difficult, unenviable job of turning every part of Dick's writing into art - and to do so without copying the distinct visuals of Blade Runner. (...) All in all, this is an experiment that works and also contains a fabulous essay by Warren Ellis that introduces Philip K. Dick in a broader way. All in all, a great package ideal for newcomers and fans alike." --Comic Book Resources
"Best bet" --MTV Splash Page
"Artist Tony Parker does a solid job...He's given the difficult, unenviable job of turning every part of Dick's writing into art - and to do so without copying the distinct visuals of Blade Runner. (...) All in all, this is an experiment that works and also contains a fabulous essay by Warren Ellis that introduces Philip K. Dick in a broader way. All in all, a great package ideal for newcomers and fans alike." --Comic Book Resources
"Best bet" --MTV Splash Page
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
By J. Erlich
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Most people know the film that is loosely based on book : Blade Runner (The Director's Cut).
However, as great as the film is, it doesn't do the novella any kind of justice.
This graphic novel contains EVERY WORD of the Philip K. Dick story, accompanied by beautiful art.
I highly recommend this to any fans of PKD or of the graphic novel medium, in general.
However, as great as the film is, it doesn't do the novella any kind of justice.
This graphic novel contains EVERY WORD of the Philip K. Dick story, accompanied by beautiful art.
I highly recommend this to any fans of PKD or of the graphic novel medium, in general.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
By Eduardo Luna
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I love Blade Runner. It is, without a doubt, my favorite sci-fi movie ever. Unfortunately, I have never read the book by Phillip K. Dick. One day I heard about a graphic novel adaptation on the book, my initial reaction was to pass on it. My reasoning behind this was that I should read the source material before I read any adaptation. Then I heard that this was more of an experiment and less of an adaptation. The studio who was in charge of this graphic novel wanted to include ALL of the original text from the book. I was hooked from that moment on. When I received this first volume in the mail, I read it and I was amazed with the quality of the art and the intricate prose that Dick had written. I love this book. This is how a graphic novel should be done. If I have one complaint is that sometimes the amount of text in each panel is a little overwhelming. But I would much rather have the entire text of the book, than an abridged version of it. I am very pleased with this product, and anybody who is a fan of Dick or a fan of Blade Runner should buy this entire series. I know I will.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
By Mr.
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
Good story but it's sad its divided into four books!
I am waiting on some album that contains all of them.
For others who can not wait I recommend it,even to buy them separately, only for "Blade Runner" fans and other who could become!
I am waiting on some album that contains all of them.
For others who can not wait I recommend it,even to buy them separately, only for "Blade Runner" fans and other who could become!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Overall, this holds up as a very broad experiment with a lot of creative merit
November 7, 2011
Format:Hardcover
I'm a fan of giant, conceptual projects that pay tribute to other projects: Maximum Fantastic Four (which blew up each panel of 1961's Fantastic Four #1 to a page-sized image), Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow (which is exactly what it sounds like), and the showing of Psycho that was slowed down to show over 24 hours. So I'm likewise intrigued by a comic book's attempt to include the full text of a novel. Even the 35 hours that comprise the Lord of the Rings films left out Tom Bombadil.
While comic books have never been a conscious attempt to omit descriptive text from a story, it's generally accepted that the images in a graphic novel will handle a vast majority of the verbs and adjectives. Rather than attempt to abridge Philip K. Dick's critical text, Tony Parker illustrates every lexical nuance of the story in total deference to the author. While dialogue falls naturally into a comic format, the descriptive passages are also included in square boxes that pepper the pages. "She smiled innocuously" is paired with an image of someone smiling innocuously, and speech bubbles are often preceded or finalized with a block of "he said" text. While the comic format renders these things completely vestigial, this project is obviously more about the art of the original words, in a kind of meta-text homage.
It's also unusual to see how these "issues" are divided up, as well as the divisions that define the larger collections. Since the original text wasn't written in 22-page story arcs (as are most comic scripts), the pacing is more akin to the slow build of a novel, rather than a serial that delivers cliffhangers with every segment.... Read more ›
While comic books have never been a conscious attempt to omit descriptive text from a story, it's generally accepted that the images in a graphic novel will handle a vast majority of the verbs and adjectives. Rather than attempt to abridge Philip K. Dick's critical text, Tony Parker illustrates every lexical nuance of the story in total deference to the author. While dialogue falls naturally into a comic format, the descriptive passages are also included in square boxes that pepper the pages. "She smiled innocuously" is paired with an image of someone smiling innocuously, and speech bubbles are often preceded or finalized with a block of "he said" text. While the comic format renders these things completely vestigial, this project is obviously more about the art of the original words, in a kind of meta-text homage.
It's also unusual to see how these "issues" are divided up, as well as the divisions that define the larger collections. Since the original text wasn't written in 22-page story arcs (as are most comic scripts), the pacing is more akin to the slow build of a novel, rather than a serial that delivers cliffhangers with every segment.... Read more ›
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By Ryan Palmer
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I really liked the book. I can see why it won awards. I highly recommend this graphic novel for any sci/fi fan.
By K.A.
Format:Hardcover|Amazon Verified Purchase
I liked the story. I loved the film. I think this is better than both. This format is excellent. There is nothing missed from the book and we get to see the colorful frames that are similar to the film. These books are going to be so much fun to read that I can't wait to get the next volume. The artwork is a perfect representation of this future earth that is overcrowded and under stimulated. It is a great portrait of Decker and his mundane mornings. The action that is to come is sure to be great. I would almost say that this is the perfect vehicle for this story. The quality of the book was good, the paper was good stock and the hardcover should last years on my shelf, allowing me to be able to read it again and again. I can't wait to own them all!
By UltimateFan
Format:Hardcover
I was simply stunned by how engaging, thought provoking, and fun this graphic novel was.
I have always been a huge fan of the "Blade Runner" movie(in all its incarnations). I knew it was somewhat based on a novel called, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick. I never read that novel though. When I recently discovered that it had been turned into a 6 volume graphic novel series, being a huge fan of graphic novels, I was extremely excited and wondered how it would be adapted from the original novel. Never having read that novel, I wouldn't know what changes were made, but figured I would at least get an idea of what the PKD's book was like. Then I found out that the people at BOOM! Studios were doing something that I'd never seen done before; instead of an abridged or adapted version of the novel, they were using the novel WORD FOR WORD! Every single word from the novel was going to be in the graphic novel. Not only did this pique my curiosity, but it also had me a little concerned as to how they would pull it off. A graphic novel is, by nature, a visual medium where stories are told as much through artwork as through the written word. In many instances, the artwork carries the story MORE than the writing. So how well would this new method work? In short, brilliantly.
One of my worries was that much of the panels would be obscured by all the words that would have to fit on the page. This, I'm happy to say, was not the case. I don't know how they did it, but they managed to allow for the images(which are fantastic by the way) to be viewed with no problem. I thought, before reading it, that maybe they would use tiny lettering. Nope. The lettering is just fine in terms of size; I also liked the font used by Richard Starkings(one of the greats).... Read more ›
I have always been a huge fan of the "Blade Runner" movie(in all its incarnations). I knew it was somewhat based on a novel called, "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" by Phillip K. Dick. I never read that novel though. When I recently discovered that it had been turned into a 6 volume graphic novel series, being a huge fan of graphic novels, I was extremely excited and wondered how it would be adapted from the original novel. Never having read that novel, I wouldn't know what changes were made, but figured I would at least get an idea of what the PKD's book was like. Then I found out that the people at BOOM! Studios were doing something that I'd never seen done before; instead of an abridged or adapted version of the novel, they were using the novel WORD FOR WORD! Every single word from the novel was going to be in the graphic novel. Not only did this pique my curiosity, but it also had me a little concerned as to how they would pull it off. A graphic novel is, by nature, a visual medium where stories are told as much through artwork as through the written word. In many instances, the artwork carries the story MORE than the writing. So how well would this new method work? In short, brilliantly.
One of my worries was that much of the panels would be obscured by all the words that would have to fit on the page. This, I'm happy to say, was not the case. I don't know how they did it, but they managed to allow for the images(which are fantastic by the way) to be viewed with no problem. I thought, before reading it, that maybe they would use tiny lettering. Nope. The lettering is just fine in terms of size; I also liked the font used by Richard Starkings(one of the greats).... Read more ›
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This book has great graphics. I purchased it for my a Christmas gift for my son. He loves the books and cannot wait until the final three volumes are published!
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