Blade Runner 2039 (2022), Issue 4

Replicants are bioengineered humans, once designed by 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 doppelganger of the wife of industrialist Alexander Selwyn. 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.Niander Wallace is hunting for the late Alexander Selwyn's research into Replicant physiology and has sent his creation Luv, the first Replicant Blade Runner, to search Selwyn's old estate, now occupied by the Replicant called Hythe.Hythe defeats Luv and heads off to the city to warn Ash of Luv's investigation, armed with a disk downloaded from Selwyn's computer.Cleo is reunited with Ash who tells her of Isobel's mysterious disappearance and to warn her that she feels 'something terrible happened.'Ash, realizing that Cleo is in danger, heads off to meet with Hythe, however a kill squad sent by Luv attacks them and they narrowly escape with their lives.Meanwhile, Luv has tracked down Cleo... Blade Runner 2039 and all related marks and characters are trademarks and copyrights of © 2023 Alcon Publishing, LCC. All rights reserved. Licensed by Alcon Publishing, LLC.