Last month, Titan and Alcon Media announced the upcoming launch of Blade Runner Origins, a new in-canon comic book series taking place ten years before Ridley Scott’s iconic sci-fi film, and now we have a look at the various covers for the first issue from artists Stanley ‘Artgerm’ Lau, Peach Momoko, Fernando Dagnino, Robert Hack and Piotr Kowalski. Check them out here…
A senior bioengineer for the Tyrell Corp is found hanging in her sealed laboratory, the victim of an apparent suicide. LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux—a war-scarred veteran of the bloody Off-world conflict known as Kalanthia, as depicted in the “Blackout 2022” Blade Runner anime—is sent to write it up, quickly, quietly and with the minimum of fuss. But something doesn’t sit right with the detective, and it soon becomes apparent that this is anything but a “normal” suicide. Did the scientist’s ground-breaking research on Nexus-model Replicants somehow contribute to her death? And is the apparent disappearance of a prototype Nexus unit also connected to the case? Det. Moreaux’s investigation will draw him into a dark conspiracy behind Dr. Tyrell’s Replicant empire.
Blade Runner Origins #1 will go on sale in February 2021.
