Read: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? comic
On a recent excursion to Annapolis’s Capitol Comics, I stumbled upon a lovely hardcover collection of a comic I never knew existed: a graphic version of Philip K. Dick’s Do Android’s Dream of Electric Sheep? Having always intended to read the book anyway, I figured I’d pick this up and give it a go.
Volume One – only published in December 2009, as it turns out, so I don’t feel that out of touch – covers the first four issues of the series and does so with a lush style and impeccable attention to detail that makes every single panel look like a photograph. As the four essays by science fiction authors included in the back are quick to point out, this is not Blade Runner. The original story never was, offering up more than Scott ever put in the film. With the addition of slick, poignant art, I think that the comic goes one step further than any version so far has (sorry, PKD.)
I’ll definitely be crossing the bridge again for Volume Two.