This is review of Blade Runner 2019 Volume 1. It has Los Angeles in cover and I saw it called Blade Runner 2019: Los Angeles in second volume’s description. So I will call it that in title. This contains first four issues of Blade Runner 2019.
This is how you do spin off comic to a movie. You take the world and themes from the movie and build something new on top of them. You don’t make your characters besties of movie’s characters. This was really refreshing after binge of everything Doctor Aphra. This is spin off to original Blade Runner movie which happened in far future of 2019. Blade Runner 2049 connection is screenwriter of it who is one of the writers.
Blade Runner 2019 tells about blade runner Ash who has her own secret. She gets missing person case which turns out to be not your normal missing person case. It is hard to say anything about the story after only four issues. Everything makes sense in Blade Runner’s context. It is not repeat of the movie. It builds on top of it. All the new concepts make sense in world of Blade Runner.
Book looks and feels like Blade Runner as far as it can without Vangelis’ soundtrack. Iconic landmark are well presented in art and art reminds those comics which served as inspiration of designs of the movie and Alien. My only problem is I have to wait till September to get next volume. It should take series away from venues of the movie. At least it is called Off World.