Download or read book Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus 2 written by Kianna Shore and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2024-08-28 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Used as slave labor Off-world, escaped Replicants on Earth were hunted by Blade Runner Units, tasked with killing them on sight. The rumors of bootleg Replicants appearing in the Far East has prompted the Tyrell Corp to investigate, determined to protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been deployed to aggressively eliminate any threat from these industrial pirates. In Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix work as off-the-book P.I.s while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an unsanctioned mission to Kalanthia. A spree of brutal killings, apparently by a rogue Replicant, has the city of edge, and Stix a suspect. When a young woman named Sayo hires Mead and Stix to find Miyuki, her missing sister, ties to the Yakuza are revealed, plunging them deeper into a dangerous investigation.
Download or read book Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus 1 written by Kianna Shore and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2024-07-31 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st Century, The Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-world as slave labor. Those who escaped to Earth where hunted by Blade Runner units ordered to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. A rise in the manufacture of bootleg Replicants in the Far East has forced The Tyrell Corp to engage in a costly patent war to ruthlessly protect its unique Intellectual Property. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been dispatched to pursue any copyright infringement by the industrial pirates with extreme prejudice in order to protect and preserve Tyrell’s monopoly. Tokyo, 2015
Download or read book Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus 3 written by Kianna Shore and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2024-09-25 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21st Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Used as slave labor Off-world, escaped Replicants on Earth were hunted by Blade Runner units, tasked with killing them on sight. The rumors of bootleg Replicants appearing in the Far East has prompted the Tyrell Corporation to investigate, determined to protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been deployed to aggressively eliminate any threat from these industrial pirates. In Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix work as off-the-book P.I.s while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an unsanctioned mission to Kalanthia. A spree of brutal killings, apparently by a rogue Replicant, has the city on edge, and Stix a suspect. A young woman named Sayo hires Mead and Stix to find Miyuki, her missing sister. LAPD Blade Runner, Rumika, arrives in Tokyo to investigate the brutal killings of the rogue Replicant and interviews Mead. Meanwhile, Stix witnesses the abduction of a Replicant by members of the Yakuza and gives chase. When the body of Miyuki is discovered, Sayo takes Mead and Rumika to the dead girl’s apartment. However, before Sayo can give any more information, she is shot with an arrow and with her dying breath names Stix as her killer…
Download or read book Blade Runner Tokyo Nexus 4 written by Kianna Shore and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2024-10-23 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution into the nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Used as slave labor Off-world, escaped Replicants on Earth were hunted by Blade Runner Units, tasked with killing them on sight. The rumors of bootleg Replicants appearing in the Far East has prompted the Tyrell Corp to investigate, determined to protect its monopoly on synthetic humans. Corporate agents and Blade Runners have been deployed to aggressively eliminate any threat from these industrial pirates. In Tokyo, ex-Marine Mead and Replicant Combat Model Stix work as off-the-book P.I.s while searching for the traitor who betrayed them during an unsanctioned mission to Kalanthia. A spree of brutal killings, apparently by a rogue Replicant, has the city on edge, and Stix a suspect. A young woman named Sayo hired Mead and Stix to find Miyuki, her missing partner. LAPD Blade Runner, Rumika, arrived in Tokyo to investigate the brutal killings of the rogue Replicant and interviewed Mead. Sayo was assassinated and died in Mead’s arms, naming Stix as her killer. Rumiko received orders from Tyrell Corp to either extricate or neutralize two Tyrell scientists from Cheshire. Mead tracked Stix down and tried to convince him to help her find the real killer of Sayo, but Stix fled, believing it to be a trap. So Mead and Rumiko then followed a lead to a deserted theme park and were followed by Sayo’s sister, Alura. There they found the dead body of a Stix clone and were attacked by a gang of Yakuza soldiers…
Download or read book Blade Runner 3 written by K. W. Jeter and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RickDeckard has sold his story to a young Turk film director, Urbenton and shooting is scheduled at an orbital station off planet. Watching his past hunt for the replicants being repeated on the set is doing weird things to his mind. As soon as filming is over he is going straight back to Mars where he has been living incognito with Sarah Tyrell. But before corporation loyalists determined to resurrect the vanquished company.
Download or read book Horizon Zero Dawn Liberation 1 written by Anne Toole and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2021-07-28 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This story is set during the events of Horizon Zero Dawn. Aloy’s search for answers led her to Meridian, where she helped Erend bring Dervahl to justice. Soon after, she learned that the Eclipse cult had a base in the northern ruins of Maker’s End. But just as she set out to find it, Erend requested her aid yet again. An Oseram trader has been murdered near Pitchcliff. And Korl, an old associate of Dervahl’s, was spotted near the scene. Erend is determined to bring this dangerous fugitive to justice…
Download or read book Nexus the Origin written by Mike Baron and published by . This book was released on 2007-11 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nexus the Origin received three Eisners, including best single issue, and dozens of four-star write-ups and reviews. This double-sized, definitive issue remains as cutting edge and relevant as the day of it's original release in 1991. It's all here--from the beginning! -How Nexus became heir to a deadly alien gift--and the most feared legend in the galaxy! -How Sundra's near burn-up in space announced her arrival on Ylum! -How Nexus rescued Dave's planet from the maniacal "Manager", and how Dave went on to become Nexus' closest companion! Plus those incomparable complainers--Tyrone, Giz, and Claude! See why Nexus the Origin has become a fan classic to span the decades!This is a REPRINT of the 1998 Dark Horse NEUXS: THE ORIGIN
Download or read book Doctor Who The Road to the Thirteenth Doctor 2 written by James Peaty and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2018-08-08 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Doctor and his travelling companion Alice Obiefune never look for trouble… but somehow it always seems to find them. Most recently, they battled their way out of a reality created to entrap them, and even successfully raised the potentially-genocidal tree creature known as the Sapling into a fully-functional, non-murderous adult, through the power of their joint example. Now it’s time for a little jaunt through time, purely as tourists. Surely nothing can go wrong…
Download or read book Avengers Mech Strike written by Jed MacKay and published by Marvel Entertainment. This book was released on 2021-10-13 with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects Avengers Mech Strike (2021) #1-5. The story that gives new meaning to the phrase "Avengers Assemble!" Earth's Mightiest Heroes find themselves confronted with an unstoppable new menace: monstrous Biomechanoids seemingly impervious to every attack! But the Avengers aren't so easily beaten - and when new threats arise, powerful new tools must be brought to bear! Suiting up in high-tech individualized armor, the Avengers stand ready for one of their greatest battles yet as a shadowy mastermind makes the first moves in a deadly game of chess! While the team battles Biomechanoids across the globe, Iron Man and Black Panther try desperately to uncover their hidden enemy - and discover that the threat is far greater than they had previously imagined. The fate of the Earth hangs in the balance, and an Avenger will fall!
Download or read book Lost in Translation written by Homay King and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-09 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a nuanced exploration of how Western cinema has represented East Asia as a space of radical indecipherability, Homay King traces the long-standing association of the Orient with the enigmatic. The fantasy of an inscrutable East, she argues, is not merely a side note to film history, but rather a kernel of otherness that has shaped Hollywood cinema at its core. Through close readings of The Lady from Shanghai, Chinatown, Blade Runner, Lost in Translation, and other films, she develops a theory of the “Shanghai gesture,” a trope whereby orientalist curios and décor become saturated with mystery. These objects and signs come to bear the burden of explanation for riddles that escape the Western protagonist or cannot be otherwise resolved by the plot. Turning to visual texts from outside Hollywood which actively grapple with the association of the East and the unintelligible—such as Michelangelo Antonioni’s Chung Kuo: Cina, Wim Wenders’s Notebook on Cities and Clothes, and Sophie Calle’s Exquisite Pain—King suggests alternatives to the paranoid logic of the Shanghai gesture. She argues for the development of a process of cultural “de-translation” aimed at both untangling the psychic enigmas prompting the initial desire to separate the familiar from the foreign, and heightening attentiveness to the internal alterities underlying Western subjectivity.
Download or read book Shinjuku written by Christopher Wingfield Morrison and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2010 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writer and director Christopher "mink" Morrison (Dust) and legendary artist Yoshitaka Amano (Final Fantasy, Vampire Hunter D) join forces to craft an unforgettable tale of destiny, danger, and hard-boiled sorcery, featuring over a hundred original illustrations by Amano! In the year 2020, bounty hunter Daniel Legend finds himself tracking a quarry of a different kind: his long-lost sister. Armed only with his wits, his gun, and a mysterious postcard, Daniel makes his way to the heart of the seedy Shinjuku district of Tokyo, where a clash between two underworlds - the criminal and the infernal - threatens the very fabric of reality.
Download or read book Future Noir The Making of Blade Runner written by Paul M. Sammon and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1996-05-01 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1992 release of the "Director's Cut" only confirmed what the international film cognoscenti have know all along: Ridley Scott's Blade Runner, based on Philip K. Dick's brilliant and troubling SF novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, still rules as the most visually dense, thematically challenging, and influential SF film ever made. Future Noir is the story of that triumph. The making of Blade Runner was a seven-year odyssey that would test the stamina and the imagination of writers, producers, special effects wizards, and the most innovative art directors and set designers in the industry. A fascinating look at the ever-shifting interface between commerce and the art that is modern Hollywood, Future Noir is the intense, intimate, anything-but-glamerous inside account of how the work of SF's most uncompromising author was transformed into a critical sensation, a commercial success, and a cult classic.
Download or read book Techno Orientalism written by David S. Roh and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What will the future look like? To judge from many speculative fiction films and books, from Blade Runner to Cloud Atlas, the future will be full of cities that resemble Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai, and it will be populated mainly by cold, unfeeling citizens who act like robots. Techno-Orientalism investigates the phenomenon of imagining Asia and Asians in hypo- or hyper-technological terms in literary, cinematic, and new media representations, while critically examining the stereotype of Asians as both technologically advanced and intellectually primitive, in dire need of Western consciousness-raising. The collection’s fourteen original essays trace the discourse of techno-orientalism across a wide array of media, from radio serials to cyberpunk novels, from Sax Rohmer’s Dr. Fu Manchu to Firefly. Applying a variety of theoretical, historical, and interpretive approaches, the contributors consider techno-orientalism a truly global phenomenon. In part, they tackle the key question of how these stereotypes serve to both express and assuage Western anxieties about Asia’s growing cultural influence and economic dominance. Yet the book also examines artists who have appropriated techno-orientalist tropes in order to critique racist and imperialist attitudes. Techno-Orientalism is the first collection to define and critically analyze a phenomenon that pervades both science fiction and real-world news coverage of Asia. With essays on subjects ranging from wartime rhetoric of race and technology to science fiction by contemporary Asian American writers to the cultural implications of Korean gamers, this volume offers innovative perspectives and broadens conventional discussions in Asian American Cultural studies.
Download or read book Battlestar Galactica Six written by J. T. Krul and published by Dynamite Entertainment. This book was released on 2016-12-14 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A pivotal chapter in the history of Battlestar Galactica, the reimagined series... set before the destruction of the Twelve Colonies of Kobol! In developing the next generation of Cylons, getting the models to look human was the easy part. But acting human is another story. Witness the evolution of Number Six as she learns to live, to love... and to hate.
Download or read book Blade Runner 2029 1 written by Michael Green and published by Titan Comics. This book was released on 2020-12-16 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 21 Century, the Tyrell Corporation advanced Robot evolution to the Nexus phase – a being virtually identical to a human – known as a Replicant. Replicants were used Off-World as slave labor, in the hazardous exploration and colonization of other planets. Replicants who escaped and returned to Earth were hunted by special police squads – Blade Runner Units – with orders to kill any trespassing Replicant upon detection. In 2022, radical elements with the Replicant Underground detonate an EMP device over Los Angeles, destroying Tyrell Corporation’s Nexus databases, and making it easier for escaped Replicants to resettle on Earth. Soon, all Replicants are banned and the Tyrell Corporation declares bankruptcy. In 2027, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, a former Blade Runner rejoined the department to hunt down fugitive Replicants. Her superiors are unaware that her loyalties are divided.
Download or read book Batman One Dark Knight written by Jock and published by DC Comics. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was the sort of mission Batman had run a thousand times. From high above the sweltering summer streets of Gotham, Batman would escort the GCPD as the dangerous metahuman supervillain known as E.M.P. was transferred from a temporary holding cell to his permanent home at Blackgate Prison in Gotham Harbor. E.M.P.’s electrical powers posed a dangerous threat, but the situation was well in hand. Until it wasn’t. Now every light in Gotham is out, the police have been knocked into disarray, and a broken, bleeding Batman must fight his way to Blackgate, block by block, dragging E.M.P. behind him. But it’s not just the gangs who want to make life difficult for him. The dark corners of Gotham contain many surprises…and E.M.P. has many more shocks to deliver before the night is through! One of the most iconic Batman artists of the 21st century, the incomparable Jock (The Batman Who Laughs, Batman: The Black Mirror), has focused all his storytelling powers on the tale of one very, very dark night in Gotham City. It’s always darkest before the dawn-if it ever comes… Collects Batman: One Dark Knight #1-3.
Download or read book Blade Runner 2049 Interlinked The Art written by Tanya Lapointe and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The official art book for Blade Runner 2049 and a companion volume to The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049. Film audiences experienced a bold, breathtaking vision of the future in 1982's ground-breaking Blade Runner. With the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049, director Denis Villeneuve returned to that world, as a young blade runner's discovery of a long-buried secret leads him to track down former blade runner Rick Deckard, who's been missing for thirty years. A companion to The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049, Interlinked offers an unprecedented look into the creative process that went into making Blade Runner 2049, illustrating how director Villeneuve and his team took Scott's 1982 movie as a starting point and expanded the world by creating a new visual language infused with the original Blade Runner DNA.
