Followers of London-based Titan Comics’ distinctive “Blade Runner 2019,” “Blade Runner 2029,” and “Blade Runner Origins” comics will rejoice to listen to that the indie writer shall be dipping again into the neon-splashed hardboiled universe as soon as extra with “Blade Runner 2039” starting this December.
Titan’s ongoing partnership with Alcon Leisure will once more showcase the formidable android murderer named Ashna “Ash” Ashina. The 12-issue sequence would be the ultimate chapter within the decades-spanning saga of this fan favourite, which started in 2019 with “Blade Runner 2019” and continued in final yr’s “Blade Runner 2029.”
The award-winning title’s third decade sees Ash colliding with the character of Luv, Niander Wallace’s lethal “First Angel,” who was initially encountered in director Denis Villeneuve’s “Blade Runner 2049” and chillingly performed by actress Sylvia Hoeks.
Heading again into this hardboiled futuristic universe is the veteran inventive group of author Mike Johnson (“Supergirl,” “Star Trek”), illustrator Andres Guinaldo (“Justice League Darkish”), and colorist Marco Lesko. Having labored collectively on the earlier two “Blade Runner” sequence, the gifted crew brings an prompt credibility and expertise delivering readers into this dystopian realm first seen in Ridley Scott’s 1982 basic, “Blade Runner.”
“This new sequence marks each the continuation in addition to the conclusion of Ash’s story, which began in ‘Blade Runner 2019.’ It is going to be essentially the most dramatic of the sequence, and that’s saying so much after what went down in ‘Blade Runner 2029!'” mentioned Titan’s Senior Artistic Editor, David Leach. “It is nice to be working with Johnson, Guinaldo and Lesko once more, these guys are what makes it scream ‘Blade Runner!'”
Right here’s the official synopsis:
“Los Angeles 2039. It has been three years since Niander Wallace launched his model of ‘completely obedient’ Replicants, and the ban on artificial people has been lifted, at the least for the brand new Wallace fashions―the older Tyrell Corp’s Nexus 8 items are nonetheless hunted by Blade Runners. Cleo Selwyn, first seen as a small baby in BR2019, Situation #1, has returned to L.A. some twenty years later, looking for Isobel, a Replicant copy of her actual mom who died when she was three. Cleo believes that Niander Wallace is holding Isobel captive, and the one particular person she will name on for assistance is the one who saved her so a few years in the past: Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, now an ageing and disgraced ex-Blade Runner.”
“Blade Runner 2039 #1 (opens in new tab)” arrives with 4 stimulating covers for followers to gather: three variant artwork covers by artists Junggeun Yoon, Veronica Fish, and Butch Guice, and an idea artwork providing from the late Syd Mead, the acclaimed “futurist” whose visionary preproduction illustrations have been answerable for the visible model and unique twenty first century autos of “Blade Runner’s” world.
“It is refreshing to have a comic book character to develop and evolve the best way Ash has,” famous Alcon’s director of publishing, Jeff Conner. “Mike and Andres are actually doing one thing particular. Followers of the sequence must be very happy.”
“Blade Runner 2039 #1 (opens in new tab)” lands in comedian outlets and on-line shops in December 2022.
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