Dream Police (comics)

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Dream Police
Cover of the 1st issue.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Format	One-shot
Publication date	June 22, 2005
No. of issues	1
Main character(s)	Joe Thursday Frank Stafford
Creative team
Created by	J. Michael Straczynski Mike Deodato

Dream Police is an American comic book one-shot created by writer J. Michael Straczynski with artwork by Mike Deodato. It was published by Marvel Comics, on June 22, 2005, under their Icon imprint for creator-owned titles. Straczynski characterised the story as "Dragnet in the Dreamscape".

Plot summary

In the near future, Detectives Joe Thursday and Frank Stafford patrol the dreamscape, a surreal landscape in Los Angeles of dreams and nightmares. This reality is inhabited by entities such as echoes, wisps, ethers, and nightwalkers, who have died in their sleep, doomed to wander the dreamscape forever. These two partners think they have seen it all, until Frank disappears and the woman that appears in his place claims to have always been Joe's partner. Joe then ventures into the unknown to challenge the dreaming and shake its existence to the core.

Sequel

A new series was published by Image Comics from 2014 to 2016 and included another major character, Dream Detective Policewoman Kate Black.

References

"Dream Police" at the Comic Book DB (archived from the original)
https://imagecomics.com/comics/series/dream-police

External links

JMS: Policing The Dream, Newsarama, March 14, 2005
Straczynski's Dream Becomes Reality, IGN, March 28, 2005

Works by J. Michael Straczynski

Films written

Changeling (2008)
Ninja Assassin (2009)
Thor (2011)
Underworld: Awakening (2012)
World War Z (2013)
Babylon 5: The Road Home (2023)

Television

Babylon 5 (1993–1998)
Crusade (1999)
Jeremiah (2002–2004)
Sense8 (2015–2018)

Comics

Creator and writer	Rising Stars (1999–2005) Midnight Nation (2000–2002) Supreme Power (2003–2006) Dream Police (2005) The Book of Lost Souls (2005–2006) Bullet Points (2006–2007) The Twelve (2008–2012) The Resistance (2020–present)
Writer	The Amazing Spider-Man ("The Other" "Back in Black" "One More Day") (2001–2007) Fantastic Four (2005–2006) Thor (2007–2009) The Brave and the Bold (2009–2010) Superman ("Grounded") (2010–2011) Wonder Woman (2010–2011) Superman: Earth One (2010–2015)

v t e Dragnet
Characters	Joe Friday
Series	1949 radio (episodes) 1951 TV (episodes) 1967 TV 1989 TV (episodes) 2003 TV (episodes)
Notable episodes	"The LSD Story" (1967)
Films	Dragnet (1954) Dragnet (1987)
Parodies	Mathnet Rocket Squad "St. George and the Dragonet" Tree Cornered Tweety Under the Counter Spy Mother Simpson Dream Police
Related	Theme music City of Crime He Walked by Night Decoy "San Franciscan Nights"

v t e Icon Comics
Stand-alone	The Book of Lost Souls Brilliant Casanova Criminal Dream Logic Dream Police Incognito Jack Kirby's Galactic Bounty Hunters Kabuki Men of Wrath Painkiller Jane Powers Scarlet Takio The United States of Murder Inc.
Millarworld	Empress Hit-Girl Kick-Ass Nemesis Supercrooks Superior

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