Comments on: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #1 Review

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 23:50:47 +0000

As far as Harrison Ford pictures go, I prefer Force 10 from Navarone…

???

Just... shhhh.

By: Aaron Poehler

Aaron Poehler — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:48:01 +0000

I doubt a single person who doesn't like Blade Runner will buy this comic, so perhaps you're not the best judge. The direct transliteration seems a misstep though, as even the panels reproduced here are annoying.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:57:05 +0000

>>You’re a lovely human being.

You're not by any chance a female in, oh, her late 20s or so, are you?

Dammit.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 16:31:37 +0000

If you want, after work I’ll see what I’ve got left (i.e. duplicates of those duplicates) & would be happy to send them to you. That’s what they’re there for.

You're a lovely human being.

There is no hope for you.

As far as Harrison Ford pictures go, I prefer Force 10 from Navarone...

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:43:19 +0000

I wouldn't go THAT far ... but yeah -- pretty sad.

By: Richard J. Marcej

Richard J. Marcej — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:32:12 +0000

" Blade Runner literally put me to sleep."

???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Good lord.
There is no hope for you.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:09:50 +0000

Also, even though I've got everything he ever published, I always pick up PKD's books on the increasingly rare occasions I come across them in used book places, purely for evangelizing purposes. I mailed off a stack of duplicates to a friend in Chicago a few months ago. If you want, after work I'll see what I've got left (i.e. duplicates of those duplicates) & would be happy to send them to you. That's what they're there for.

By: Dan Bailey

Dan Bailey — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 13:04:29 +0000

>>I know they do. I am sort of a librarian. I have yet to find one that carries PKD books.

Good grief. Finding (& of course reading) his TIME OUT OF JOINT in my backwater hometown's (not a single trafflic light to this day!) library back in '71 at age 12 was a singularly important event in my reading life. The fact that a year later, I came across THE THREE STIGMATA OF PALMER ELDRITCH in the considerably bigger library one county over proved just as epochal in its own way.

A library completely lacking PKD is very likely an institution not worthy of the name.

Of course, as a charter member of the old Philip K. Dick Society, I might be just a bit biased on the subject ...

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 06:34:33 +0000

I've never really understood these sort of "let's be completely true to the original" type of comic adaptations, where you put the whole narration into panels, since the end result is always too wordy and stuffed. What's the point of doing an adaptation in the first place, if you can't play to the strengths of your medium? Has there ever been a "completely faithful" adaptation that would've worked as a comic book? Also, my mind boggles at the idea of not being able to find Philip K. Dick book in a library... Here in Finland even the smallest libraries usually carry at least some of his books.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 03:26:39 +0000

According to all soiurces on the internet, yes - but I'm almost certain that's what the cover on the copy I've got says. 'A Maze Of Death' is the synopsis that fits what I've read, and if it isn't one of those weird publisher changing a name things, I'm so running out to buy the name 'radio death maze' - and I'm pretty certain I picked it up for that title. Either I was smoking a lot of pot at the time, or I've shifted realities (or reality has shifted me).

By: jccalhoun

jccalhoun — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 02:48:00 +0000

"Radio Death Maze?" I'm not sure there's any such thing. Are you conflating Radio Free Albemuth and A Maze of Death?

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 01:57:38 +0000

That's a shame Bill - my local library when I was a teen (and the surrounding libraries you could order books from) had a heap of his books and often even better, his short story collections.
They all had really daggy old covers, but their the sorts of books you feel should have covers like that.
Ubik, Radio Death Maze (my favourite title ever) and The Game Players Of Titan are three pretty easy to get into - out there, but still highly readable - one's I really enjoyed if you ever come across a bunch.
(Where as something like Valis is a little harder to read, and is Dick out to 'say something' as opposed to just playing with crazy ideas).

Second hand bookstores are often a treasure trove of his stuff as well.

By: Bill Reed

Bill Reed — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:59:53 +0000

Libraries have free books too

I know they do. I am sort of a librarian. I have yet to find one that carries PKD books. I think I found Valis once, maybe. That's aboot it.

By: FunkyGreenJerusalem

FunkyGreenJerusalem — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 00:33:43 +0000

Never read Phillip Dick?

Blade Runner... boring?

What kind of topsy turvy world do you live in Bill?

I'd be more interested if they were doing an actual adaptation, as I've read the book.

By: librarian

librarian — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 23:49:01 +0000

Libraries have free books too

By: Chad Nevett

Chad Nevett — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:21:13 +0000

I have qualms about the price tag for the whole novel, too, but if the backmatter matches Ellis's and the art remains solid (although, I would hope that it improves), it could be worth it.

By: Ian A.

Ian A. — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 22:05:40 +0000

My favorite part of the issue is definitely the backmatter from Warren Ellis. It’s reason enough to buy this comic, in fact! Ellis writes a marvelous essay, drawing comparisons between Philip K. Dick’s life and the world inside this particular novel– the clearly disturbed but brilliant writer and a vision of society that’s becoming more real every day.

Which makes me wistful for the second arc of Desolation Jones, which was supposed to be all about PKD. Sigh... While the backmatter may be tempting (Fraction's handling the essay in #2, right?), $4.00 x 24 issues = too rich for my blood. I'll just grab the paperback.

By: Greg Burgas

Greg Burgas — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 21:57:58 +0000

How dare you imply I'm not dumb!

If you don't like Blade Runner, I just can't help you anymore. So sad!

Tony Parker is a local Arizona guy, so I'm rooting for the book. That said, it seems like Boom! has a house style, and it would be a shame if he was changing his style to fit that.