In 2020 Titan Comics took fans of the Blade Runner movie franchise back to the future with the comic book series Blade Runner 2019 (reviewed here at borg).  Both the sequel to Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner and prequel to Blade Runner 2049, the series expanded the franchise based on characters and settings created by Philip K. Dick.  Then the series went back 20 years before the theatrical sequel in Blade Runner 2029, and the anime TV series saw its own sequel in the pages of Blade Runner: Black Lotus.  Before that, Blade Runner: Origins took fans back even earlier–to Los Angeles 2009.  The franchise filled in more blanks following a Replicant named Luv in Blade Runner 2039, discussed here at borg.

Next up… this summer look the franchise goes back to 2015 for Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus.  Check out the cover art, some interior art, and story details below.

Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus will be a three-part, 12-issue story written by Kianna Shore and Mellow Brown, with art by Rodolfo Taibao.  The next chapter in the ongoing story expanding on Philip K. Dick’s novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? follows the survivors of an ill-fated Off-World military squad: Stix, a Replicant combat model, and Mead, a battle-hardened Marine, and their search for an unknown traitor who left them to die on the battlefield.  After escaping back to Tokyo, the pair’s quest for revenge leads to their formation of a clandestine private detective service.  Stix and Mead stray into a three-way “patent war” between the Tyrell Corporation and a rival tech, which has its own version of synthetic humans, and powerful Yakuza clans wanting in on the action.

Here are some of Taibao’s interior illustrations:

Look for the first issue in the story of Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus coming in July 2024 to Elite Comics in the U.S., Forbidden Planet in the UK and Europe, or your local comic book shop.

C.J. Bunce / Editor / borg