Written by Mike Johnson.

Creative Consultants – Michael Green, K. Perkins and Mellow Brown.

Art by Andres Guinaldo

Titan Comics, out now

It’s 2029 and Blade Runner Ash believes that a Nexus 6 replicant who evaded capture years before is still alive and shooting, long beyond their programmed expiry date.

There’s something really comforting about reading a new issue of Titan’s Blade Runner sequel series. You know the plotting will be tight, the visuals will be loyal to the source – at times a whole page is devoted to a single detailed panel – and at no point do you feel you’re one step ahead.

A gruesome prologue sees a Replicant servant removing an eye from his master, the action then switching to the autopsy of a Nexus model ‘retired’ by Ash, but why do they not have any serial numbers? It feels like a dead end, but the Blade Runner has an itch to scratch.

Her investigations take Ash to an underground (in both senses of the word) club for Replicants, her mention of a certain name provoking a runner and a lovely homage to the movie where Ash is up on the bonnets of cars in pursuit.

Verdict: Another quality instalment in this impressive series, taking us deeper into the Blade Runner universe. 9/10