UPGRADE SOUL Is Rereleasing Its Interactive Comic App and Its Soundtrack on Vinyl

You may have heard of Upgrade Soul before. Roughly seven years ago, it released as an interactive comic app on iOS. Then, last year, Lion Forge published it as a graphic novel. The story is written by Ezra Claytan Daniels with Erik Loyer helping with designing the app. Well, the app is being relaunched. Also, the original soundtrack by Alexis Gideon is being released on Vinyl. Here’s a quick synopsis of the book:

UPGRADE SOUL is the dark and surreal story of an elderly couple who volunteer themselves for an experimental scientific procedure intended to rejuvenate their aging bodies. When the procedure goes horribly wrong, creating physically disfigured but intellectually superior clones of the couple, the scientists, the couple, and their clones must grapple with existential questions of morality—with very real consequences. The book is a profound meditation on identity, and the ways society imposes restrictions based on our age, gender, race and perceived disabilities.

The premise of Upgrade Soul sounds really interesting to me. I like media that makes me think. I also find it very interesting that there is not only the graphic novel but also an app and a soundtrack for this story. The app and soundtrack will both be available on October 25.

The app will be free to download with the first chapter, but you will have to pay for the rest of the story. During the month of October, it will be on sale for $6.99 with the price jumping to $7.99 on November 1. You can check out a preview of the app from 2012 below.

The Upgrade Soul Original Soundtrack Standard Edition will retail on vinyl for $18. A Limited Edition color vinyl will be available for $45 exclusively from FPE Records website, Bandcamp, or directly from Daniels if you meet her.

UPGRADE SOUL (http://upgradesoul.com - Get it now on the App Store at http://itunes.apple.com/app/id549051057?mt=8) is a groundbreaking new immersive science fiction graphic novel for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch written and illustrated by Ezra Claytan Daniels, with an original soundtrack by Alexis Gideon, and developed by Erik Loyer.

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