Blade Runner Origins 1-3 Slipcase Set - Paperback

by Mike Johnson (Author), Melllow Brown (Author), K. Perkins (Author)

Welcome to the world of Blade Runner 2009 and the birth of the BLADE RUNNER DIVISION. Includes 3 stunning art cards!

Set ten years before the original Blade Runner movie, these three volumes recounts the birth of the legendary LAPD Blade Runner division.

Follow the adventures of ex-LAPD detective CAL MOREAUX as he investigates a seemingly straight-forward suicide of a TYRELL CORP scientist and uncovers a desperate conspiracy that could see the city of LA burned to the ground.

This boxed set edition collects all three volumes of the Blade Runner ORIGINS.

Blade Runner ORIGINS Vol 1: PRODUCTS
Blade Runner ORIGINS Vol 2: SCRAP
Blade Runner ORIGINS Vol 3: BURNING

BLADE RUNNER ORIGINS VOL 1: PRODUCTS

When a Tyrell Corporation scientist working on an experimental new type of Replicant is discovered dead in her laboratory, the victim of an apparent suicide, LAPD detective CAL MOREAU is called in to investigate. What he uncovers is a conspiracy of silence so deadly it could change the world as he knows it. Set ten years before the events of the first Blade Runner film, this is the world on the cusp of environmental collapse, and the beginning of the mass Off-world migration to the Off-world colonies. Through its rain-soaked streets, LAPD Detective CAL MOREAU, a PTSD sufferer, must travel as he attempts to unravel the truth behind a seemingly routine suicide that soon reveals itself to be just the thin end of a vast conspiracy, one that runs to the very top of the Tyrell Corporation tower.

BLADE RUNNER ORIGINS VOL 2: SCRAP

Someone is triggering psychotic breakdowns in the NEXUS 4 REPLICANT population, sending once obedient servants on homicidal rampages and ex-LAPD Detective CAL MOREAUX has been ordered to hunt down and kill the instigator. Tasked by TYRELL CORP Executive ILORA STAHL to find a rogue Nexus 5 prototype, believed to be the responsible for the attacks, Cal's hunt for the rogue Replicant has brought him back to the slum sector of L A where he and his sister grew up. Now, with time running out, Cal must unlock a shocking secret that led a Tyrell Corp scientist to commit suicide and stop a renegade Replicant before it can corrupt an entire city.

BLADE RUNNER ORIGINS VOL 3: BURNING

The slums of LA are ablaze.

TYRELL CORP executive ILORA STAHL has instigated a brutal purge of
L.A.'s Sector-6B, in an attempt to kill a rogue NEXUS 5 prototype who
is responsible for triggering an uprising of Nexus 4 REPLICANTS.
Now, LAPD detective CAL MOREAUX has joined forces with a former Tyrell Corp scientist, and a band of Replicant rebels and human sympathizers to stop the prototype and save the str eets he and his sister once called home.

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.

K. PERKINS got her start writing for Supergirl, Superwoman, Wonder Woman and Batwoman, the latter of which earned her a 2019 GLAAD Award Nomination for Best Comic. She is currently writing Paper Girls for Amazon, based on the award-winning comic book series by Brian K. Vaughan.

Mellow Brown was born & raised in Cleveland, OH, and studied at Cleveland State University, where he became a software engineer and developed the skills to help urban communities with open-source technology. Today, he is a screenwriter that has previously written for the TV series 'American Gods'.

Ferando Dagnino is a Spanish penciller, inker and cover artist with over 75 credits to his name. He has worked for Marvel, DC and IDW comics. He has previously worked with Mike Johnson on the Star Trek comic series. His credits include: Infinite Crisis, Earth 2, Star Trek/Green Lantern, Arrow, Justice League, Suicide Squad, Captain America and the Incredible Hulk.