Blade Runner 2039: Ash
About this ebook
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.
About the author
Mike Johnson is a prolific comic book writer with credits writing Titans, Superman, Batman, Star Trek: Nero and Star Trek: The Official Motion Picture. He is the ongoing writer of the Star Trek series, as well as comic book tie-ins to Fringe and Transformers.
Andres Guinaldo was 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. Lansdale’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 pencilling Son of Hulk and drew issue #5 of Dark Reign: Hawkeye. He followed this with Gotham City Sirens #14-17, Joker’s Assylum: 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.
Marco Lesko hails from Brazil and has been a professional comic book colorist since 2014. His credits include Rat Queens, Assassin’s Creed Uprising, Doctor Who, Robotech, The Shadow and many more. When he’s not coloring comics, he spends endless hours studying color theory from many different areas, including: cinema, conceptual art design, Japanese anime, videogame design, and classic Disney animations.
