Blade Runner 2039: Ash - by Mike Johnson (Paperback)

About the Book

"The final chapter in the ASH saga, which spans 30 years! Featuring the Replicant Luv from Blade Runner 2049 and her creator Niander Wallace ... In 2019, Aahna "Ash" Ashina was the LAPD's most efficient and feared Blade Runner. Two decades later and Ash has lives 'off-grid' as fugitive outlaw helping Replicants escape their enslaved servitude and survive undetected on Earth. Now, in 2039, Niander's own personal assistant, Luv, has become the first Replicant to be accepted into the Blade Runner unit, but she has a secret agenda, find Cleo, the daughter of industrialist Alexander Selwyn whom Ash helped to escape 20 years earlier. Now, as Ash's past and future collide, her astonishing story finally concludes as she faces her greatest challenge yet: saving the city she loves from the insane machinations of Niander Wallace, heir of the Tyrell empire. It's up to Ash to keep the truth about the Replicant miracle (seen in Blade Runner 2049) a secret, and to fulfill the pact she made years ago to those she loves most"--

Book Synopsis

The final chapter in the ASH saga, which spans 30 years! Featuring the Replicant Luv from Blade Runner 2049 and her creator Niander Wallace.

The officially sanctioned, critically-acclaimed, graphic novel. Written by the New York Times Bestselling author Mike Johnson, writer of Star Trek, Supergirl, Transformers and Green Lantern.

In 2019, Aahna "Ash" Ashina was the LAPD's most efficient and feared Blade Runner. Two decades later and Ash has lives 'off-grid' as fugitive outlaw helping Replicants escape their enslaved servitude and survive undetected on Earth.

Now, in 2039, Niander's own personal assistant, Luv, has become the first Replicant to be accepted into the Blade Runner unit, but she has a secret agenda, find Cleo, the daughter of industrialist Alexander Selwyn whom Ash helped to escape 20 years earlier.

Now, as Ash's past and future collide, her astonishing story finally concludes as she faces her greatest challenge yet: saving the city she loves from the insane machinations of Niander Wallace, heir of the Tyrell empire. It's up to Ash to keep the truth about the Replicant miracle (seen in Blade Runner 2049) a secret, and to fulfill the pact she made years ago to those she loves most.

The future itself is at stake.

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. He is the ongoing writer of the IDW Star Trek series, as well as comic book tie-ins to Fringe, Transformers.

ANDRES GUINALDO
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. Landsdale'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 penciling Son of Hulk and drew issue #5 of Dark Reign: Hawkeye. He followed this with Gotham City Sirens #14-17, Joker's Asylum: 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.