Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Issue #1

by Harlan Ellison, John Byrne (Illustrator), Craig Elliott (Illustrator)

You made the world a better place. You probably didn't realize the significance of your actions at the time, but when you bought Harlan Ellison's Dream Corridor Special you truly changed the fate of the planet. Your purchase was a vote to continue our series of adaptations of Harlan Ellison's stories of the fantastic, and so continue we shall!

This first issue of the new series features enough great creators to stun a police dog, as you can no doubt see from the breakdown above. But in particular, you should pay attention to the adaptation of I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream. This classic is one of the ten most reprinted stories in the English language! (They probably made you study it in college.) John Byrne is the first artist ever to adapt this famous story to the comics medium, and we're proud to run his vision alongside Harlan's original prose. .

36 pages, Paperback

Published March 1, 1995

About the author

Harlan Jay Ellison (1934-2018) was a prolific American writer of short stories, novellas, teleplays, essays, and criticism.

His literary and television work has received many awards. He wrote for the original series of both The Outer Limits and Star Trek as well as The Alfred Hitchcock Hour; edited the multiple-award-winning short story anthology series Dangerous Visions; and served as creative consultant/writer to the science fiction TV series The New Twilight Zone and Babylon 5.

Several of his short fiction pieces have been made into movies, such as the classic "The Boy and His Dog".

Reviews

[Mahdiye HajiHosseini · Rating 4 out of 5]

قطعا به پای داستان اصلی نمی‌رسه. فرم مونولوگ داستان و راوی درهم‌شکسته‌اش واقعا بی‌نظیره و البته در قالب کمیک نمیاد. اما به نظرم کمیک کاملا انتخاب‌های درستی داشت و در حد توان کارش رو برای انتقال داستان انجام داد.
نکته مهمی که هر دفعه بهش فکر میکنم و پشمامو می‌ریزونه اینه که تایتل هم برای تد صدق می‌کنه و هم برای AM.
کمیک رو بلافاصله بعد از خوندن خود داستان، برای اینکه بهتر از صحنه‌ها سر بیارم و یادم بمونه از اینترنت آرکایو خوندم.

[Cristhian · Rating 4 out of 5]

An ageless classic

[Drew Canole · Rating 2 out of 5]

Pretty interesting concept. Harlan takes the role of a show host narrating between each short story. Each are adapted from his short stories and are unfortunately presented in parts (so you need multiple issues to get a full short story adaptation). Most seem like they'd be better as prose unfortunately although the artwork is pretty cool for some of the stories.

[Sjoerd · Rating 5 out of 5]

The addition of the text of the original I Have No Mouth And I Must Scream short story is an excellent choice. It has been a while since I read the original and it's interesting to see how it was adapted.

[Robert Hudder · Rating 3 out of 5]

I like Harlan Ellison. This is part of his anthology series from a while back. I am missing the last issue and the special that came before this. It was well done and I do wish I had the whole lot. Worth a read.

[Robert · Rating 2 out of 5]

I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream - this story was written for fun more than for any deliberate reason, in my opinion. The author obviously had fun.

One interesting question: if left with only one option to alleviate the suffering, will nothing else be considered? Is life anywhere near as linear?