Blade Runner: Origins Vol 2: Scrap by K. Perkins, Mellow Brown, Mike Johnson
Art by Fernando Dagnino

(Titan Comics, 2022)

Reviewed by John Dodd

I’ll go on record as saying that I love all things to do with Bladerunner, from the original films (in all its many forms), to the book and its sequels, to the film sequel and all the lore and mythos that has been built up over time.

This was something I hadn’t yet encountered and that was a very refreshing thing to encounter.

Cal Moreaux (the significance of the name is not lost on me), is a man who has been brought in by the LAPD to assist on a case involving problems with the Nexus 4 model replicants. It quickly becomes apparent that there are issues with the 4’s malfunctioning, with the first one that they encounter going into a recursive loop till their programming comes to the conclusion that it needs to, albeit that no one knows what the conclusion should be.

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