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- Behind the scenesFree comics online
Before becoming a book, these stories ran for free on the official Matrix website starting in 1999. Years later, the Wachowskis' own publisher, Burlyman, collected them in print.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe trial became Animatrix
Bits and Pieces of Information, written by the Wachowskis, shows the trial of the robot B1-66ER. It became the basis for The Animatrix's The Second Renaissance, which goes beyond where the comic ends.
source ↗ - ReferenceGeof Darrow drew the films
Bits and Pieces artist Geof Darrow was a concept artist on all three films of the original trilogy. The story's title comes from Morpheus's speech about artificial intelligence.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesGaiman wrote it before release
Warner asked Neil Gaiman to write Goliath for the film's website. He started in February 1999, and the story went live on March 31, the film's release day. It later appeared in his collection Fragile Things.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe butterfly dream
In Butterfly, Dave Gibbons cuts between an Agent chase and a man meditating until the two scenes collide. The idea comes from Chuang Tzu's parable of dreaming he was a butterfly and no longer knowing what's real.
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- Behind the scenesBorn on the Australia set
The Wachowskis came up with Burlyman while shooting Revolutions in Australia. Volume 1 sold over 60,000 copies, which paved the way for this second book.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesThe recalled comic
A printed preview was handed out in theaters in 1999, but Warner recalled it over its mature content. Paul Chadwick's Déjà Vu was in it, and it appears here in color for the first time.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe film's déjà vu
In Déjà Vu, a woman senses glitches in the Matrix before anyone else. It's the same idea as the film, where déjà vu means the machines changed something.
source ↗ - Reference"The Matrix has you"
Farewell Performance, by Tim Sale and Jim Krueger, ends with the message "The Matrix has you," the same line that appears on Neo's screen early in the first film.
source ↗ - ReferenceThe Kid gets his own story
Kaare Andrews's I Kant was made just for this book and never ran online. It stars the Kid from The Animatrix's Kid's Story, and Morpheus shows up in the opening.
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- Behind the scenes"This book was never supposed to exist"
Spencer Lamm's introduction opens by saying the book was never supposed to exist: the stories were made for the web, with no plans to print them. Reader demand changed that.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesFour new-to-print stories
Besides everything from volumes 1 and 2, there are 4 stories never printed before: An Easy One by Tommy Lee Edwards; Day In... Day Out by Ted McKeever and Keron Grant; Return of the Prodigal Son by Gregory Ruth; and Let It All Fall Down by Paul Chadwick.
source ↗ - ReferenceTwo covers: Trinity or pod
The edition came with a choice of two covers: one with Trinity and one with a human pod hooked to the machines.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesTwo are still missing
Even the 20th anniversary edition isn't complete: two web comics remain unprinted, Morning Sickness, made by the Manex visual effects team, and The Man Who Knew Too Much.
source ↗ - Behind the scenesReleased alongside Doc Frankenstein
Burlyman released the book on the same day, November 6, 2019, as the deluxe edition of Doc Frankenstein, another of its comics, with an introduction by Lana Wachowski.
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