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Comic Review: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Dust to Dust #2

July 14, 2010 at 5:00 pm
Sean Scott Maguire
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Issue: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?: Dust to Dust #2
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Writer: Chris Roberson
Artist: Robert Adler
Colors: Andres Lozano and Javier Suppa
Letterer: Comicraft’s Jimmy Betancourt
Cover A: Trevor Hairsine (Colors: Andres Lozano)
Cover B: Benjamin Carré
Publisher: BOOM! Studios

As we start our second installment, Victor and Reed are still at it, walking the street amongst humans to see if Reed’s psychic-empathic abilities can pick up an Android. But the only Android he can sense — because of his lack of emotions — is Victor himself.

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Victor decides that if their target can’t be found in public, he must have already gone “underground.” Reed figures he knows what their prey will do next. After all, he’s an Android himself, so he knows what their operating parameters are. Reed spots the issue with Victor’s logic: if the Androids are going underground and doing things they are not supposed to do, then they must be acting outside their operating parameters, so Victor’s knowledge of the parameters the rebel Androids are supposed to be operating under give our heroes no advantage whatsoever. Victor doesn’t have an answer for that.

Meanwhile, a new character, Samantha Wu, has been conducting experiments on animals, presumably to find out which animals are the most resistant to the poisonous dust that has caused all this environmental destruction. If we find one, perhaps we can find out their evolutionary adaptation, and use it to our advantage. The bad news is that human beings seem to be the most resistant. So, there’s that to deal with.

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Samantha tells her lab assistant that, ever since the animals started dying out, she has started to see the animals more than just experiments. She’s actually starting to — and here is that key word again — empathize with the animals. Her lab assistant tells her she sounds crazy, like that wacko who is pushing that Mercer religion. The Mercer literature says that one of the foundations of civilization is figuring out the ability to turn off aggressive impulses.

Elsewhere, Talus, the leader of the Android revolt (or something. We’re still unsure what he’s up to) is briefing his minions: first, he knows that Victor is on their trail, so they have to be careful. Second, he’s got a plan to kill off the humans. The dust is killing them slowly, but Androids have limited life spans, and he wants to see the humans extinct before he dies.

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Victor is unaware of Talus, of course. Instead, he is dragging Reed through the streets, trying to track down his query. But Reed is feeling the emotions of all the people around him — since he hasn’t taken his medication — and it’s driving him nuts.

But Reed can’t have his medication back until they get their query. It turns out one of the Androids found a way to disable the city’s facial recognition software. Without the facial recognition software, Reed is Victor’s only chance of finding the missing Androids.

This is a good second issue. We are still in the set-up stages of this story. But it looks promising. Another treat is that Victor is so different than Deckard, the “hunter” from the original Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Deckard is a bit of a kid in a candy store who happens to be good at killing Androids. Victor, on the other hand, is an Android who used to be a soldier. It’s a good contrast.

Rating: 3 / 5 Stars

BOOM! Studios, comics-, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, Reviews

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About the Author
Sean Scott Maguire describes himself as a modern day Leonardo da Vinci. He concedes that he doesn't have da Vinci's talent, or genius, and never tried that cool backwards handwriting that you can only read by holding it up to a mirror (and doesn't speak Italian anyway). But besides that, Sean is just like Leonardo da Vinci. Except also he is totally obsessed with genre fiction, especially science fiction, fantasy, and superhero, which da Vinci probably never even heard of.

Also, in his spare time, Sean writes and records music on his computer, is trying to figure out how Linux works, attends conventions, and blogs like a madman, and the historical record indicates that da Vinci didn't do any of those things very much. But besides that, Sean insists that he's just like da Vinci. In addition, while da Vinci spent much of his spare time cutting up cadavers in order to study human anatomy, Sean spends most of his spare time keeping up with his DVR, which records everything from the Clone Wars and Sponge Bob Square Pants to I Love Money 2.

Sean admits that unlike da Vinci he knows nothing about inventing flying machines and medieval military armaments, but on the other hand, he is pretty good at karaoke.

Sean developed a reading habit that had him soaking up all the science fiction and fantasy novels he could get his hands on, not to mention a comic book addiction (mostly Marvel) that really never caused any of the troubles you would excpect an addiction to cause. Sean now lives in Southern Florida.
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