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Total Dick-Head, a blog dedicated to the weird, wonderful and endlessly fascinating works of the great Philip K Dick, posts on the upcoming comics version of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Boom! Studios, a 24-issue version of the story which should be pretty true to the original text.
“We are thrilled that DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? is being adapted for this audience by such a talented team. We’ve been incredibly impressed with BOOM!’s ability to create such a faithful interpretation of the original work without sacrificing their own original instincts and artistic sensibilities,” said Laura Leslie and Isa Dick Hackett of Electric Shepherd Productions. “Through this medium, readers will now have visual access to parts of the novel not explored in the film adaptation BLADE RUNNER,” PKD’s daughters Laura Leslie and Isa Dick Hackett.
(one of the variant covers for Boom! Studios’ Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep; not sure of the cover artist here, there are several covers from different artists but the Boom! site doesn’t say which is which)
As I’m sure most readers will be aware, the original PKD tale was the inspiration for the now classic science fiction film Blade Runner, although the new comic version intends to cleave more to the original text than the film and, as PKD’s daughter said, it will offer up aspects of the tale which the film didn’t. I’ve been reading and re-reading PKD’s work pretty much my entire adult life and he’s an author I always recommend to others (his regular themes of personal identity, memory, paranoia, science, society and control become more relevant with each passing decade), so I’m pretty interested in seeing what Boom! do with this series (and I like that they are using the original text and giving it a whole 24 issues to breathe in, not condensing it into 6, kudos for that move, it shows great respect for the source material).
And, as with some other quality literary comics interpretations we’ve seen in the last few years, I’d hope that the comic version will introduce new readers to the twisted and astonishing worlds of the PKD and inspire them to seek out the prose works for themselves. The first issue is due in June, using the original text and including Backmatter by Warren Ellis, with four variant covers by Denis Calero, Bill Sienkiewicz, Scott Keating and Moritat, with the series art coming from Steven Dupre; its available to pre-order from our comics site now.
