Titan Comics and Alcon Entertainment have announced that they are collecting their ‘Ash saga’ of Blade Runner comic book titles – Blade Runner 2019, Blade Runner 2029, and Blade Runner 2039 – across three deluxe omnibus editions set for release later this year.
Written by screenwriter of the Blade Runner 2049 movie Michael Green, with Mike Johnson, and illustrated by artist Andres Guinaldo, with colors by Marco Lesko, each hardback omnibus comes with two covers including a special direct market edition; check out the covers and official details for all three releases here…
Los Angeles, 2019 and LAPD’s best Blade Runner and detective, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, has been assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Isobel and Cleo Selwyn, the wife and daughter of business tycoon, Alexander Selwyn, a close personal friend of Eldon Tyrell. Ash’s search will take her on a journey from the crime-ridden underbelly of a rain-soaked, environmentally damaged Los Angeles to the promised land of the Off-World Colonies and back home again as she uncovers a terrible secret and a desperate conspiracy that forces her to confront her own hatred for Replicants – the synthetic humans that she hunts with such vengeance.
Collects Blade Runner 2019: Los Angeles, Blade Runner 2019: Off-World and Blade Runner 2019: Home Again, Home Again.
Set ten years after the first year’s critically acclaimed series, this omnibus sees Blade Runner Ash return to hunt down renegade Replicants. But this time ASH now has a new agenda that, if discovered, will make her the enemy of humanity. When Ash is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a Replicant called YOTUN, one unlike any she has ever faced before – a NEXUS 6 Replicant who has outlived his four-year lifespan. she finds herself in a deadly fight for survival. The head of a guerrilla army of fanatical Replicants, Yotun leads a revolt to take control of the Los Angeles and only Ash can stop him.
Collects Blade Runner 2029 Vol 1: Reunion, Blade Runner 2029 Vol 2: Echoes and Blade Runner 2029 Vol 3: Redemption.
The astonishing saga of Ash concludes as she faces her greatest challenge yet. 20 years have passed since Ash helped a young girl and her Replicant mother escape from the clutches of her sadistic father – the business tycoon, ALEXANDER SELWYN – to an Off-world colony. Now the heir apparent to the old Tyrell empire, NIANDER WALLACE has ordered the capture of Cleo believing that her DNA holds the secret to Replicant fertility. Now former Blade Runner AAHNA ‘ASH’ ASHINA must once again return to Los Angeles and fight to save the city she loves from the insane machinations of Niander Wallace and his personal Replicant assistant, LUV, the first Replicant Blade Runner, and fulfill a pact she made years ago to protect those she loves most. The future itself of all Replicants is at stake.
Collects Blade Runner 2039 Vol 1: Redemption, Blade Runner 2039 Vol 2: Upgrade and Blade Runner 2039 Vol 3: Ash.
Blade Runner 2019: The Complete Series Omnibus will go on sale on September 2nd, followed by Blade Runner 2029: The Complete Series Omnibus on October 7th and Blade Runner 2039: The Complete Series Omnibus on November 4th.
