Blade Runner 2039 #7

Blade Runner 2039 #7
Author: Mike Johnson
Publisher: Titan Comics
Total Pages: 34
Release: 2023-09-27
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1787740528

Replicants are bioengineered humans, once designed by the Tyrell Corporation for use Off-world. After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture was prohibited, and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt. Niander Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of Replicants who obey. Twenty years ago, in 2019, Ash spared the Replicant Isobel Selwyn, a replica of industrialist Alexander Selwyn’s wife. Together with Alexander’s human daughter, Cleo, Isobel escaped to the Off-world colonies. In 2039, Cleo returned to Earth and enlisted Ash’s help in finding her missing surrogate mother whom she believed had returned to Earth. Convinced that Cleo held the secret to Replicant fertility, Wallace sent his creation Luv, the first Replicant Blade Runner, to hunt her down. However, Ash and Cloe managed to escape Luv’s pursuit and set off cross country to San Francisco, determined to locate Isobel. Thwarted, Luv returned to Wallace who teamed her up with a new Replicant, created by Niander from Ash’s DNA, and the two resumed their hunt for Ash and Cleo. While en route, Ash and Cleo were stranded by a sandstorm and attacked by a biker gang who shot and critically injured Cleo. Only the intervention of an elderly farmer saved her life. In the morning, following the storm, as Ash was preparing to leave, the farmer revealed himself to be a Replicant who had survived an encounter with Blade Runner Ash 20 years previously.

Blade Runner 2039 Volume 1

Blade Runner 2039 Volume 1
Author: Mike Johnson
Publisher: Titan Comics
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2023-08-22
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1787740447

Los Angeles, 2039. Twenty years ago, former Blade Runner Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina helped a young girl and her surrogate Replicant mother escape from the clutches of her sadistic father – the business tycoon, Alexander Selwyn. Now, Cleo Selwyn has returned from the Off-world colony of Arcadia to Los Angeles in search of her ‘mother’, Isobel, whom she believes is the victim of an abduction orchestrated by Niander Wallace. For three years, Niander Wallace has been manufacturing his new line of ‘perfectly obedient’ Replicants and now, in 2039, his personal assistant, Luv, has become the first Replicant to be assigned to the LAPD Blade Runner Division. Searching for answers, Cleo sets out to track-down Ash, who for the past ten years has been living off the grid, unaware that Luv has been ordered to find and retire anyone who comes to her aid… Collects Blade Runner 2039 #1-4. “Blade Runner continues to ride a euphoric high in its storytelling.” – Set The Tape

Blade Runner 2029 #1

Blade Runner 2029 #1
Author: Michael Green
Publisher: Titan Comics
Total Pages: 36
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1787733351

Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution to the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-World as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. Replicants who escaped and returned to Earth were hunted by special police squads – Blade Runner Units – with orders to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. In 2022, radical elements with the Replicant Underground detonate an EMP device over Los Angeles, destroying Tyrell Corporation’s Nexus databases, and making it easier for escaped Replicants to resettle on Earth. Soon, all Replicants are banned and the Tyrell Corporation declares bankruptcy. In 2027, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, a former Blade Runner rejoined the department to hunt down fugitive Replicants. Her superiors are unaware that her loyalties are divided.

Blade Runner 3

Blade Runner 3
Author: K. W. Jeter
Publisher:
Total Pages: 309
Release: 1997
Genre: Betrayal
ISBN: 9780752808628

RickDeckard has sold his story to a young Turk film director, Urbenton and shooting is scheduled at an orbital station off planet. Watching his past hunt for the replicants being repeated on the set is doing weird things to his mind. As soon as filming is over he is going straight back to Mars where he has been living incognito with Sarah Tyrell. But before corporation loyalists determined to resurrect the vanquished company.

Blade Runner 2039 Volume 2

Blade Runner 2039 Volume 2
Author: Mike Johnson
Publisher: Titan Comics
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2024-02-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1787740498

After 20 years living Off-world. Cleo Selwyn has returned to Los Angeles in search for her surrogate Replicant mother Isobel, whom Cleo believes has been abducted on the orders of Niander Wallace. Believing that Cleo’s DNA holds the secret of Replicant fertility, 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. “As a Blade Runner series this looks to be one of the best yet. If this is the final chapter, we are in for an explosive end. My anticipation levels are at an all-time high.” – Get Your Comic On Collects Blade Runner 2039 #5-9

Blade Runner 2039 Volume 3

Blade Runner 2039 Volume 3
Author: Mike Johnson
Publisher: Titan Comics
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1787740544

THE ASH SAGA CONCLUDES! Twenty years ago, Aahna “Ash” Ashina was the LAPD’s most efficient and deadly Blade Runner, hunting Replicants with a zeal unrivalled. Now, two decades later, Ash lives as a fugitive helping Replicants escape their enslaved servitude and survive undetected on Earth. Convinced that the secret of Replicant reproduction lies hidden in the DNA of Cleo Selwyn, a young woman whom Ash helped to escape back in 2019, Niander Wallace has unleashed his Replicant protegee, Luv – LAPD’s first Replicant Blade Runner, and a clone of Ash in her prime to bring them to him dead or alive. For twenty years, Ash has been running. Today, she stops… Collects Blade Runner 2039 #9-12 “Johnson’s plotting, pacing and dialog are excellent, and Guinaldo’s art is outstanding.” – Comical Opinions.

Pale Fire

Pale Fire
Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Publisher: ببلومانيا للنشر والتوزيع
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2024-02-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The American poet John Shade is dead. His last poem, 'Pale Fire', is put into a book, together with a preface, a lengthy commentary and notes by Shade's editor, Charles Kinbote. Known on campus as the 'Great Beaver', Kinbote is haughty, inquisitive, intolerant, but is he also mad, bad - and even dangerous? As his wildly eccentric annotations slide into the personal and the fantastical, Kinbote reveals perhaps more than he should be. Nabokov's darkly witty, richly inventive masterpiece is a suspenseful whodunit, a story of one-upmanship and dubious penmanship, and a glorious literary conundrum.

Blade Runner 2039 #5

Blade Runner 2039 #5
Author: Mike Johnson
Publisher: Titan Comics
Total Pages: 35
Release: 2023-07-26
Genre: Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN: 1787740501

Replicants are bioengineered humans, once designed by the Tyrell Corporation for use Off-world. After a series of violent rebellions, their manufacture was prohibited, and Tyrell Corp went bankrupt. Niander Wallace acquired the remains of Tyrell Corp and created a new line of Replicants who obey. A Replicant underground survives, led by the former combat model Freysa and her human partner Aahna Ashina, known as Ash, formerly a Blade Runner. Twenty years ago, in 2019, Ash spared the Replicant Isobel Selwyn, a Replicant replica of industrialist Alexander Selwyn’s wife. Together with Alexander’s human daughter, Cleo, Isobel escaped to the off-world colonies. Now Isobel has gone missing, rumored to be back on Earth and Cleo has returned to find her. Searching for the late Alexander Selwyn’s research into Replicant physiology Niander Wallace has sent his creation Luv, the first Replicant Blade Runner, to hunt down both Cleo and Isobel. Believing that Isobel holds the secret to Replicant fertility, Wallace has ordered Luv to capture the girl at any cost and to kill anyone who comes into contact with her. Meanwhile, Ash has been given a computer disc by Alexander’s former Replicant bodyguard Hythe, which Ash discovers contains the information Wallace is looking for. Cleo sought out Ash, however, Luv tracked them both down before Ash could help her find Isobel. Ash gave Luv a blank disc claiming it was what Wallace was after before escaping in a Spinner and heading off to join Freysa. Thwarted, Luv returned to Wallace who introduced her to a Replicant created from the DNA of Ash and codenamed Rash…

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner

Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner
Author: Paul M. Sammon
Publisher: Harper Collins
Total Pages: 467
Release: 1996-05-01
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0061053147

The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.