The Deal of the Day over at Things From Another World today is Boom!’s Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep: Dust To Dust: Vol. 02 trade paperback for only $5.19 (that’s 60% off of the regular price of $12.99). The series is a comic book adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s book Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?, which was the source material for the movie Blade Runner.

Note – The sale at TFAW is valid only for today, Tuesday, May 29, 2012, til 11:59PM PST while supplies last (and there’s a limited supply, so it will sell out, so hurry!).

When the deal runs out, you can also get a copy of Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep: Dust To Dust: Vol. 02 for $12.48 at Amazon. Also, if you need Vol. 1, you can get it for $9.99 at Amazon, where it’s part of their 4-for-3 promotion where you purchase four items and get one of them free.).

Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep #9
Written by Philip K. Dick
Art by Tony Parker
Covers: Moritat, Scott Keating
BOOM! Studios
Price: $3.99; Release date: March 3, 2010

Full disclosure, I love Philip K. Dick. I have almost every novel and short story he’s ever published including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. While Androids is not my favourite book, it is the most well-known Dick novel, so it came as little surprise when I learned that BOOM! Studios was adapting it into comic book form.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep #9 picks up one of the most fascinating sections of the novel: the bounty hunter Deckard has been cornered by suspected android Luba Loft, who accuses him of being a sexual deviant. Instead of simply executing him right then and there, she calls in another police officer, Crams, who claims that he has never heard of a bounty hunter in the San Francisco police department named Deckard, nor has he ever heard of his superior, Harry Bryant. In fact, when Deckard tries to contact Bryant, the connection is cut off before Crams has a chance to speak with him. After finding the body of a “retired” android in Deckard’s car, he is arrested and shuffled into the back of Crams patrol car. Deckard soon realizes that he has been duped by the androids, and he is now at their mercy.

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? #1
Volume 1
Written by Philip K. Dick
Art by Tony Parker
BOOM! Studios
Release date: Issue #1 July 2009; Vol 1 December 1, 2009

By Kathulhu

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is adapted from the book by Philip K. Dick (which inspired the Ridley Scott film Blade Runner) and is presented in graphic form by BOOM! Studios. The art by Tony Parker is appropriately dark with muted coloring done by Blond, and the story follows the illustrations in a continuous panel-by-panel format. Warren Ellis provides an “introduction,” found at the end of the comic.

The future, as painted by Dick, is a bleak and desolate place. It is the year 2021 and the population on planet Earth has been decimated by a radioactive dust that is the byproduct of World War Terminus. Few people are left on Earth, as the majority of survivors have left to colonize other planets. Those who remain on Earth run the risk of being labeled as “biologically unacceptable” while emigrants to the off world colonies receive the android of their choice.