Blade Runner 2039 1-3 Slipcase Set - Paperback

by Mike Johnson (Author), Andres Guinaldo (Illustrator)

Return to the world of Blade Runner with this, the officially sanctioned comic book series based on the cult 1982 science fiction movie Blade Runner, directed by Ridley Scott.

This box set collects the final three volumes in the saga of Ash, first started in Blade Runner 2019 and featuring Aahna 'Ash' Ashina, the first female Blade Runner.

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 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.

This boxset collects all three volumes of Ash's third and final decade as the world's first and greatest Blade Runner.
Blade Runner 2039 vol 1. Redemption (ISBN 9781787737372)
Blade Runner 2039 Vol 2. Upgrade (ISBN 9781787738454)
Blade Runner 2039 Vol 3. Ash (ISBN 9781787738461)

Vol 1. Sees the sins of the past catching up with ex-Blade Runner, Ash Aahna Ashina. Twenty years ago, ASH helped a young girl and her surrogate REPLICANT mother escape from the clutches of her sadistic father - the business tycoon, ALEXANDER SELWYN, to the off-world colony of Arcadia. How CLEO SELWYN has returned to Los Angeles in search of her 'mother', ISOBEL who she has believes is the victim of an abduction orchestrated by NIANDER WALLACE.

Vol 2. Believing that Cleo's DNA holds the secret of Replicant fertility, Niander Wallace has ordered his own personal Replicant assistant, LUV, the first Replicant BLADE RUNNER, to hunt her down with approval to kill any who stand in her way.

Now reunited with her one-time protector and former Blade Runner AAHNA 'ASH' ASHINA, Cleo and Ash set off on a desperate race to find her mother and escape back Off-world before Luv can find them.

Vol 3. 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.

The future itself is at stake.

Author Biography

Mike Johnson is a prolific comic book writer with credits writing Titans, Superman, Batman, Star Trek: Nero and Star Trek: The Official Motion. He is the ongoing writer of the IDW Star Trek series, as well as comic book tie-ins to Fringe, Transformers.

WRITER'S RESIDENCE: Australia

Michael Green is a New York American writer and producer. In addition to writing for television, Green has written several feature film screenplays, including Logan, Alien: Covenant, Blade Runner 2049 and Murder on the Orient Express, all in 2017. For Logan, which he co-wrote with James Mangold and Scott Frank, Green was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. He is also the co-author of several graphic novels including Batman: Lovers and Madmen, Super-Man/Batman and Supergirl with Mike Johnson.

WRITER'S RESIDENCE: USA, Los Angeles

ANDRES GUINALDO
Born in Segovia, Spain in 1975. Andres originally studied movie making (direction) at Madrid University before making the move into comics. His first professional work was drawing Joe R. Landsdale's The Drive-In and By Bizarre Hands. He followed those with Pistolfist: Revolutionary Warrior, and other books such as Helios: Under the Gun, Purity, and Cartoonapalooza. In 2010, Guinaldo started regularly penciling Son of Hulk and drew issue #5 of Dark Reign: Hawkeye. He followed this with Gotham City Sirens #14-17, Joker's Asylum: The Riddler, Namor: The First Mutant #4, Red Lanterns #8, Resurrection Man #9, Nightwing #11-14, Hypernaturals and Justice League Dark. In recent years he's worked on titles as diverse as Ninjak and Captain America: Steve Rogers. He currently resides in Segovia, the city where he was born.