The recently-released Blade Runner: Origins Vol. 1 is far more than a simple prequel to the nearly 40-year-old Ridley Scott film starring Harrison Ford and Sean Young.
As the only sanctioned comic book told within the Blade Runner universe, Blade Runner: Origins Vol. 1 is a gripping science fiction story that also smartly and thoughtfully explores a character's trans identity.
Writers K. Perkins, Mellow Brown and Mike Johnson mix elements of noir, cyberpunk, and detective mystery and mix-in plenty of queer and trans themes.For the uninitiated, the original and classic Blade Runner movie (and the 2017 follow-up Blade Runner 2049 starring Ryan Gosling) centers around bioengineered human-like beings called Replicants.