The final chapter in the Blade Runner 2039: Ash saga, which spans 30 years, is released this week from Titan Comics, featuring the Replicant Luv, from Blade Runner 2049, and her creator, Niander Wallace.
Blade Runner 2039: Ash Volume 3, the officially sanctioned, critically-acclaimed, graphic novel is written by the New York Times bestselling author Mike Johnson, writer of Star Trek, Supergirl, Transformers and Green Lantern, with art by Andres Gunaldo.
In 2019, Aahna “Ash” Ashina was the LAPD’s most efficient and feared Blade Runner. Two decades later, and Ash has lives ‘off-grid’ as fugitive outlaw helping Replicants escape their enslaved servitude and survive undetected on Earth.
Now, in 2039, Niander’s own personal assistant, Luv, has become the first Replicant to be accepted into the Blade Runner unit, but she has a secret agenda, find Cleo, the daughter of industrialist Alexander Selwyn whom Ash helped to escape 20 years earlier.
Now, as Ash’s past and future collide, her astonishing story finally concludes as she faces her greatest challenge yet: saving the city she loves from the insane machinations of Niander Wallace, heir of the Tyrell empire. It’s up to Ash to keep the truth about the Replicant miracle (seen in Blade Runner 2049) a secret, and to fulfill the pact she made years
ago to those she loves most.
• Blade Runner 2039: Ash Volume 3 is on sale from 13th August 2024 in book shops, comic shops and digital | AmazonUK Affiliate Link
BLADE RUNNER 2039: ASH
Author: Mike Johnson
Illustrator: Andres Gunaldo
Publisher: Titan Comics
SC, 112 pages, FC, $17.99
ISBN: 9781787738461
On sale 13th August 2024
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John is the founder of downthetubes, launched in 1998. He is a comics and magazine editor, writer, and Press Officer for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival. He also runs Crucible Comic Press.
Working in British comics publishing since the 1980s, his credits include editor of titles such as Doctor Who Magazine and Overkill for Marvel UK, Babylon 5 Magazine, Star Trek Magazine, and its successor, Star Trek Explorer, and more. He also edited the comics anthology STRIP Magazine and edited several audio comics for ROK Comics; and has edited several comic collections and graphic novels, including volumes of “Charley’s War” and “Dan Dare”, and Hancock: The Lad Himself, by Stephen Walsh and Keith Page.
He’s the writer of comics such as Pilgrim: Secrets and Lies for B7 Comics; “Crucible”, a creator-owned project with 2000AD artist Smuzz; and “Death Duty” and “Skow Dogs”, with Dave Hailwood.
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