Blade Runner 2019 #5 (Titan, 2019)
Titan Comics · Blade Runner 2019 · 33 pages · Published 2019-12-18
- Michael Green — Writer
- Mike Johnson — Writer
- Andres Guinaldo — Artist
- Marco Lesko — Colorist
- Paul Pope — Cover Artist
- Bruno Seelig — Cover Artist
Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced robot evolution into the Nexus phase a being virtually identical to a human known as a replicant. After a bloody mutiny by a Nexus 6 combat team in an Off-World colony, Replicants were declared illegal on Earth under penalty of death. Special police squads "Blade Runner Units" had orders to shoot to kill, upon detection, any trespassing replicant. In 2019, the Blade Runner Aahna "Ash" Ashina rescued Cleo Selwyn, daughter of agribusiness tycoon Alexander Selwyn, from a plot to give the girl to the Tyrell Corporation for genetic experimentation. Ash and Cleo left Los Angeles and disappeared. In 2022, Replicant production was banned altogether. Remaining Nexus 8 units were permitted to live out their lifespans in service to their owners in the colonies. Off World, 2026.
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