The man who brought us Babylon 5 now brings us another science fiction comic and no it isn't the song from Cheap Trick but it does have some similarities.
DREAM POLICE IS A MYSTERIOUS,
FANTASY SERIES SURE TO INTRIGUE READERS
Crime, changelings, nightwalkers, and police
detectives that uncover more than they bargained
for
Join Dream Police Detectives
Joe Thursday and Frank Stanford as they patrol the dreamscape in DREAM POLICE,
written by J. Michael Straczynski (TEN GRAND, PROTECTORS, INC.) with art by Sid
Kotian.
Joe and Frank have been
partners for as long as they can remember, patrolling the alternate universe of
dreams, nightmares, and the great void beyond, an alternate but very real
dimension of changelings, echoes, wisps, ethers, and nightwalkers, those that
died in their sleep and wander the dreamscape forever.
The Dream Police have seen it
all. But when Frank steps away and disappears… and the woman who returns says
she’s Joe’s partner, that she’s always been Joe’s partner… he begins a journey
into the unknown that will shake the dreaming down to its very
foundation.
While growing up, Straczynski
moved 20 times by the time he was 17. This lack of continuity as a child led him
to imagine his own “hometown,” a community that he patched together with
different memories from all the different places he’d tried to settle, and
visited only in his dreams. “I've been fascinated with
the idea that the dreamscape is a real place, stitched together from echoes of
the physical world, where we go to find some measure of relief, or adventure, or
understanding,” said Straczynski. “If that's the case, then there has to be some
means of providing order and protecting dreamers from danger… which led me to
the notion of the Dream Police.”
DREAM POLICE is more than just
a crime series. Each issue does world building and allows readers to get to know
more than just the police that inhabit the dream community. “The book delves into the
other characters who live in the dreamscape,” said Straczynski. “The architects
(who design environments on the fly as needed by dreamers), changeling and
echoes (who play the parts of people we know), nightmares (figures both
frightening and deeply tragic) and others who serve a higher
power.”
The first issue of DREAM
POLICE arrives in stores on 4/30 and will be available for $2.99. Cover A (by
Sid Kotian & Bill Farmer) can be pre-ordered using Diamond Code: FEB140494.
Cover B (by Renae Deliz & Ray Dillon) can be pre-ordered using Diamond Code:
FEB140495.
