Blade Runner: Black Lotus (2022), Issue 1

Los Angeles, 2032Waking up in a derelict complex somewhere in the desert east of Los Angeles, a young woman called Elle, with no memory of her past, discovers that she and several other people have been brought there to be hunted for sport in a sadistic big-game safari.Displaying incredible survival and combat skills, only Elle manages to escape the hunt, stealing an encrypted data device from one of the hunters in the process. Determined to find out who she is, Elle finds herself drawn to the nearest city: Los Angeles.There, in the menacing megacity, Elle learns that she is in fact a prototype Replicant codenamed Black Lotus, created by Niander Wallace Jr as an unwitting assassin, part of his plot to seize control of the Wallace Corporation from his father.Elle's quest for revenge and answers see her haunted by both the authorities and Niander Wallace. In their final showdown, Elle manages to blind Niander with her katana sword before escaping the city.Determined to leave her violent past behind, Elle takes an old spinner bike and heads back to the desert in search of redemption and a new life, free of bloodshed and death... THE MAN WHO FELL TO EARTH © 1976, ™ and © Studiocanal Films Ltd. All rights reserved. All characters, the distinctive likeness thereof, and all related indicia are ™ and © of Studiocanal.