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Boom! Studios editor Ian Brill joins us this week to talk about the Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? maxi-series, other Boom! projects including the Farscape series, and his background as a journalist for Publishers' Weekly and The Comics Journal. (W) Phillip K. Dick (A) Tony Parker
Covers: A) Dennis Calero, B) Bill Sienkiewicz, C) Scott Keating, D) Moritat (retailer incentive) 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...
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