Titan Comics Announces New Series ‘Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus — Die With Honor’

by Olly MacNamee

Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus — Die With Honor is the next miniseries from Titan Comics, writer Nancy A. Collins (The Swamp Thing), and artist Mariano Taibo (Predators: A Predatory Life). It is also the latest in the long-running Blade Runner saga.

“Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus — Die with Honor #1 sees Alura show the Kalanthia traitor, who is head of the Cheshire bootleg Replicant program, photos of Stix and Mead, realising they are still alive he panics and demands she kills them, Alura refuses until Uldren makes good on his promise of delivering bootleg Replicants as promised.

Later she summons Stix and introduces him to the ‘Borealis Team’ — a three Cheshire Replicant team who are all clones of the original Aurora Team who served with Stix on Kalanthia. He is ordered to lead them on a mission to hunt down and kill Madame Nomura.

Meanwhile, Mead, still believing that Stix is the killer of Sayo — Nomura’s daughter, steals his Cheshire ID card and breaks into Cheshire HQ in search of evidence and witnesses the brutal mass assassination of the Yakuza sub-bosses by a second Cheshire Replicant kill team led by Lerna, who is linked to Alura via one of the two surviving Aurora Yokes.”