But no Syd Mead Metallic, Chromium, Embossed, plus Holographic Variant Cover ;..(

Boom Studios announced today that it plans to publish a 24-issue comic book adaptation of Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?. Remember, Dick’s trust authorized an adaptation of “The Electric Ant” last year, and this looks like another pretty good move, hopefully exposing the novel to another set of fans. One thing that I like about the project is that they plan to a complete adaption, totally faithful to Dick’s original, even using his original text.

I’m not a huge comic fan, but the illustrations look good, and my guess is, this won’t hurt Dick’s burgeoning literary reputation. This article over at MajorSpoilers.com quotes Dick’s daughters Laura and Isa as saying:

“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.”

Warren Ellis is set to provide “backmatter” for the novel to appear in the first issue. That’s the only red flag. Ellis, who probably doesn’t deserve the bashing I gave him in this post awhile ago, nevertheless rubs me the wrong way. Remember he wrote one of those old, backhanded-compliment “PKD was a brilliant nut-case” articles we all had to wade through when Dick had his literary coming out party with the release of his first volume from the Library of America.

Found here: Total Dick-Head: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? to Become a Comic Book Series.