Sadly, I'm not. I got the illustrated version of the book for Christmas so I'm just a little re-obsessed with Androids right now. Reading it was my reward for at least looking at my lines for the show. (Which is Afterlife of the Mind. Also a brain fuck, but nowhere near Phildickian proportions.)
The illustrated Androids pretty good - the art is static but they keep the story flowing nicely without too many wall o' text pages.
They included a gallery of covers from the comics, which was pretty wank-tastic. Photo-negative of the cover art? Now your just filling pages. But the essays in the back were great. They got a bunch of comic writers I've never heard of to talk about Dick and why this story. One of them hit it on the head.
He talked about how,when Star Wars came out, it divided the world and got all of us little kids hooked on Sci-Fi. Black Hole? Sure! Ice Pirates? Okay. Then all of the sudden the guy who was in Raiders of the Lost Ark AND Star Wars was in a Sci-fi movie?! Of course we were there!!
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Date: 2010-01-01 09:01 pm (UTC)The illustrated Androids pretty good - the art is static but they keep the story flowing nicely without too many wall o' text pages.
They included a gallery of covers from the comics, which was pretty wank-tastic. Photo-negative of the cover art? Now your just filling pages. But the essays in the back were great. They got a bunch of comic writers I've never heard of to talk about Dick and why this story. One of them hit it on the head.
He talked about how,when Star Wars came out, it divided the world and got all of us little kids hooked on Sci-Fi. Black Hole? Sure! Ice Pirates? Okay. Then all of the sudden the guy who was in Raiders of the Lost Ark AND Star Wars was in a Sci-fi movie?! Of course we were there!!
And that was how Philip K. Dick broke our minds.