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Blade Runner Graphic Novel Box Sets Receive Big Discounts At Amazon

Blade Runner is one of the most beloved sci-fi properties of all time, but compared to its contemporaries like Star Wars and Star Trek, its extra material pales in comparison. Beyond its two feature films, an excellent 1997 video game, animated series, and several novels, Blade Runner has been the focus of several well-received comic books, and if you're looking to read up on adventures set in that movie universe, you can grab a great deal on several graphic novels right now.

Both collections consist of three graphic novels packaged inside of an attractive slipcase, making for some attractive reading, and as an added bonus, you get several art cards with them that deserve to be framed and displayed. Thanks to the all-star art team, these graphic novels look fantastic, with each page popping with color.

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Originally published by Titan Comics, the Blade Runner graphic novels flesh out the IP with new characters and stories. Both box sets are available for steep discounts at Amazon, and these make for good-looking gifts if you happen to have a comic book fan in your home.

Blade Runner 2019 focuses on LAPD detective, Aahna 'Ash' Ashina, who has been assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Isobel and Cleo Selwyn, the wife and daughter of business tycoon, Alexander Selwyn, a close personal friend of Eldon Tyrell. Ash's search leads her into the criminal underworld of LA and to the promised land of the Off-World Colonies as she becomes entangled in a massive conspiracy that forces her to confront her own hatred for Replicants.

In Blade Runner 2029, Ash returns to the rain-soaked streets of a slowly crumbling Los Angeles to hunt down renegade Replicants, but this time she has a new agenda to follow and could find herself becoming public enemy number one.

For more comic book options, don't forget to check out Humble's current special on Halo graphic novels, which offers a ton of comic book adventures for just $18. And if you want to watch the two Blade Runner movies in stunning 4K, Amazon has Blade Runner: The Final Cut and Blade Runner 2049 for great prices. If you want to see where the classic franchise all started, you should definitely pick up Philip K. Dick's beloved novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

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The Most Overlooked Sci-Fi Blockbuster Of 2023 Just Quietly Dropped On Amazon

When The Wandering Earth hit theaters in 2019, it was a minor phenomenon. It went on to gross $694 million during its original theatrical release, becoming (at the time) the second highest-grossing non-English film of all time and one of the biggest science-fiction films of all time. Last week, the highly anticipated follow-up, The Wandering Earth II, made its streaming debut on Prime Video to barely any noise.

The U.S. Streaming premiere of The Wandering Earth II might be surprising given the box office-minded trend pieces that accompanied the original Chinese blockbuster's U.S. Release, first theatrically and then streaming exclusively on Netflix. How could the sequel to a visual effects-heavy space adventure come and go with such little fanfare?

In recent interviews, series director Frant Gwo inadvertently suggested some reasons for the recent prequel's diminished crossover footprint. Speaking to China Film Insider, Gwo suggested that the first movie's success was unusual since there are no other big-budget Chinese sci-fi movies like The Wandering Earth, which makes it harder for the filmmakers to tap into an "international perspective" like Hollywood sci-fi movies do. Gwo also stressed that they originally made The Wandering Earth with a Chinese audience in mind, so it makes sense that 89.7 percent of the original movie's box office returns come from mainland China. The Wandering Earth II still grossed $600 million, but its Lunar New Year-pegged theatrical release was overshadowed by a number of factors, including stiff competition from the costume drama/conspiracy thriller/black comedy Full River Red.

Gwo's comments about the "international perspective" also inadvertently suggest one reason why The Wandering Earth II might not be as popular as the previous movie. Without a Western media-focused publicity campaign, American moviegoers still might not know what to expect from a big-budget Chinese science-fiction movie and may balk at their preference for sentimental domestic drama, as well as their dramatically thin and symbolically heavy-handed nationalistic sentiments.

Despite its failure to crossover with Western viewers, The Wandering Earth II provides a welcome extension to the first movie's mythology. It's not as fresh or urgent as its predecessor, but Gwo and his impressive production team still deliver a polished and mostly compelling ticking-clock thriller.

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The Wandering Earth was a minor phenomenon. Why did its sequel barely make any noise?

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The Wandering Earth II takes place after the events of both The Wandering Earth and Cixin Liu's source novel, which follow a group of heroic Chinese astronauts and scientists as they team up with their international counterparts to prevent the Earth from crashing into the Sun. This time, another group of mainland space heroes, which still includes Chinese megastar Wu Jing, embed and ignite massive rocket engines around the Earth to save the planet from further solar-related shenanigans.

The Wandering Earth II also features a series of momentum-stalling flashbacks and a major supplementary story about a malevolent HAL-9000-style computer that boils down to the relationship between a computer specialist (venerable Hong Kong megastar Andy Lau) and his dead daughter, whom Lau's character brings back to life as an experimental AI program. The two movies are otherwise similar, even if The Wandering Earth now feels like a more self-conscious retread of the original movie's plot and tropes.

Still, the fact that AI plays such a relatively beefed-up role in The Wandering Earth suggests that this movie's creators struggled to think of ways to extend their original movie's save-the-Earth hook. The story of The Wandering Earth II isn't really based on Liu's writing, possibly because, as Gwo told Beijing Review, he and his team spent a lot of time consulting with scientific experts and "market research." Gwo adds that this process of research-based revisions will be the model for their next sequel's script.

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A worthy sequel, The Wandering Earth II is a triumph of execution over ideas, delivering a lot more of what fans of the first movie have come to expect.

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That all being said, The Wandering Earth II might simply be a victim of bad timing. The Wandering Earth was relatively novel at the time of its release, just like China's biggest box office release of 2019, Ne Zha, an animated mythological fantasy that reportedly grossed $722 million globally. Unlike The Wandering Earth, Ne Zha has gone on to inspire a handful of high-end trend-chasers, like the unrelated animated fantasy New Gods: Nezha Reborn (2021) and its sequel from this year, New Gods: Yang Jian.

Chinese audiences already knew what to expect from both The Wandering Earth movies, based partly on the breakthrough success of Liu's novel. But maybe further Western success may not be far behind: Liu's Hugo Award-winning novel The Three-Body Problem is now being developed as a Netflix series here in America by Game of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss. Netflix's upcoming series will follow a Chinese adaptation of Liu's novel, which debuted on the Chinese Tencent streamer in January. American audiences are still catching up, both with Chinese science-fiction and the Wandering Earth movies, and it's only a matter of time.

The Wandering Earth II is streaming now on Amazon Prime Video.

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