Titan Comics and Alcon Media Group have announced Blade Runner Origins, a Blade Runner prequel story by Mike Johnson, K. Perkins and Mellow Brown.
The comic takes place 10 years before the events of the original Blade Runner film and the current Titan series, exploring what leads to the formation of the Blade Runner division.
"We’re thrilled to be joining the creative team behind the Blade Runner comics, to bring fans the story behind the first Blade Runner unit," Brown and Perkins said in a statement. "As fans ourselves, we look forward to expanding this universe, telling stories from new perspectives and shedding light on the corners of L.A. only hinted at in previous chapters."
Titan's official synopsis for Blade Runner Origins is below:
A senior bioengineer for the Tyrell Corp is found hanging in her sealed laboratory, the victim of an apparent suicide. LAPD Detective Cal Moreaux—a war-scarred veteran of the bloody Off-world conflict known as Kalanthia, as depicted in the “Blackout 2022” Blade Runner anime—is sent to write it up, quickly, quietly and with the minimum of fuss. But something doesn’t sit right with the detective, and it soon becomes apparent that this is anything but a “normal” suicide. Did the scientist’s ground-breaking research on Nexus-model Replicants somehow contribute to her death? And is the apparent disappearance of a prototype Nexus unit also connected to the case? Det. Moreaux’s investigation will draw him into a dark conspiracy behind Dr. Tyrell’s Replicant empire.
Blade Runner Origins #1, by Mike Johnson, K. Perkins and Mellow Brown, goes on sale Feb. 24, 2021, from Titan Comics.