Sin City

Blade Runner heads to Las Vegas in new miniseries

- WORDS: STEPHEN JEWELL

CONTINUING THE STORY OF 2021'S Blade Runner: Black Lotus, Titan Comics' latest miniseries sees renegade Replicant combat model Elle - the notorious Black Lotus Killer - leaving the City of Angels far behind, as she fetches up in Sin City. Picking up "no more than a couple of weeks" after the events of 2022's Leaving LA - according to writer Nancy A Collins - Las Vegas sees one of the characters from the previous four-parter returning to "join the Doll Squad that's hunting her down".

It's set in 2032 - around halfway between the 2019 milieu of Ridley Scott's original 1982 film and Denis Villeneuve's 2017 sequel Blade Runner 2049 - and Collins has perhaps been afforded more creative freedom than the authors of Titan's other Blade Runner titles. "I've been allowed a certain amount of leeway with the stories since they're part of the anime series and not the movie franchise itself," she says. "