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Huh.

So that’s an opportunity to, instead of buying the novel as Dick actually wrote it for eight bucks at the local used store and reading it in one night, you get to spend two years spending 100 bucks on it.

Bargain!

Also, I appear to be unable to write.

You make a sound point nonetheless, brother McEnery.

Paul,

Wow! It seems like just yesterday you were interviewing me about digital comics for Mondo 2000!

To your point – this effort is all about exposing a new audience to Dick’s original text. If people want to get the book – that’s great. If people want to read the novel through reading the comic, that’s great too. Tony Parker and Blond are bringing a completely new dimension to the work that you won’t find by just purchasing the novel. Either way, the more people reading Philip K. Dick original text – the better!

Best,

Chip Mosher
Marketing and Sales Director
BOOM! Studios

Why make Rick Deckard rugged yet again? He’s supposed to be a stand-in for Dick himself. It seems to me the only reason to do a comic at this point would be to make it widely divergent from the film, yet here we have the artist making the Deckards pretty young things.

So, Roy I take it we’re assuming that the Deckards are young? By who’s standards? Let’s for a moment forget the insanity of this current generation’s obsession with physical appeal. How do we know that the artist is not simply applying how the Deckards see themselves, in a similar manner to, say, “Shallow Hal?” (I know, I know, using a Jack Black movie as an analogy is far-fetched, but just wait a moment)

Remember, Dick was never really clear on how the Deckards really look, was he? So I’m going to go with the idea that the way they look is simply a projection inside of their collective heads. Far be it from me to try to second-guess the work being done here. Besides, don’t look at this as a bastardized way of squeezing money out of a jaded populace. Look at it more like the ultimate serialization of a classic sci-fi novel in one of the last relevant mediums out there for literature of this caliber.

“…don’t look at this as a bastardized way of squeezing money out of a jaded populace”

That’s why there are four covers to issue #1, then?

Hmm, if it’s the complete text then why not get someone like Sienkiewicz to illustrate it? Or I don’t know, Ashley Wood? It’s not like temporary lack of clarity would ruin the thing, everything’s laid out in words anyway, and one of these “weird” artists would be more suitable in my opinion. But maybe it’s just me (I greatly enjoyed both Lore and Stray Toasters for example).

I read the original a few years before Blade Runner came out — I worked my way through the PKD section of the local public library between the ages of 11 and 12, which probably explains a lot about how I turned out.

I have to say, this looks really good. The art is engaging, and really brings a vibrancy to PKD’s words.

That said — I’ll wait two years and pick up the trade.

well everyone seems really crunched bout the wait and money with comics eh?
That is what comics are for (and manga if you must) make a brilliant and fricken awesome medium to tell a story and have us on our edges for years on end waiting for a scene to finish.
Although if you are not an obsessive collector you can just find it on the wonderful world of interwebs and read it there.
*not supporting piracy or free downloading……its just an unethical option….one that we can take.

But this art looks really good, and the way the narrator is combined with the thoughts of the characters. The cover art reminds me of Blame.
Looking forward to it. Maybe i should read the book while i wait for some fellow to upload it eh?

I just read the first issue and thought it was fantstic!

I applaud BOOM!’s efforts and hope to see this book through to the very end of what is expected to be a 24 issue mini (maxi?) series. It’s got four beautiful covers so far (there’s a rumored second print on its way) and the interior art is excellent as well, Steven Dupre keeps what little story there is moving along nicely and has abandoned the idea of making lead character Rick Deckard look even remotely like Harrison Ford. And when I say “what little story there is” I mean there is a lot of groundwork being laid in this issue that introduces and expands on ideas presented in the movie, it’s not a detracton at all.

Don’t expect a prequel to the movie. In fact, abandon any comparisons at all. This is a solid work on its own merit and deserves to be viewed with fresh eyes. Warren Ellis provides background, or “Back Matter” as it’s called in the book, on the author and the original work that is easily as intriguing as the novel itself.

I somehow doubt this book will do very well as a back issue or a good flip, but it is well worth the time to seek out and read.