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This is more 3.5 than 4 but I go with 4 because of the truly beautiful graphics.

Same as first volume this one is also "angry" story. As our hero detective Cal works on finding the mysterious Nexus android he comes into conflict .... with almost everyone. And I dont mean conflict as conflict-during-the-investigation but conflict in way of standard we-hood-you-cop-we-hate-you conflict or you-privileged-we-hate-you. Just pick up every current slogan and it looks like authors decided to apply it to the story. I mean every work is reflection of the society where it came to life. But for me it is lazy writing to just repeat the everyday slogans to make the story click. If it clicks, it will be clicking only for the current age and after that it wont click at all. Make the story good and introduce all the critique you want but make it subtle, true moral of the story - that has the biggest effect.

Maybe this was the element that I had problem with - I mean, you gotta admit that there is saturation with these justified-hate elements in everyday life, in media, amongst people .... everywhere. It is not something I want to read in comics (entire world is currently like some crazy episode of Preacher, comics should be an escapism). So .... social upheaval......OK.... We have Nexus androids in role of oppressed (although I dont remember anyone oppressed being capable of single-handedly splitting human in half), cops-are-bad cliche and they betray their 'hoods by being cops [or working for corpo's] .... Only cliche that I can [kinda] live with is Big Evil Corporation, Tyrell Corp. Because they are the ultimate baddies, and our guys should fight against them not between themselves. Right? Well, I guess we might see this in volume 3, because in volume 2 it is still infighting for different reasons between good guys.

Story does get disjointed at the end - at one point there is a rather weird kung-fu bare hand showdown between Cal, mysterious Nexus android (wont say much more in order not to spoil the story), mysterious Asa and crazy homicidal Nexus android. It is almost as somebody decided to go all-superhero in this part. As I said .... weird.

It all ends up on a cliffhanger and I have to say I am interested how story progresses. Tyrell deciding to involve their .... executive branch (?) .... in the slum area surely raises the stakes. I wonder what will happen next. I just want creative team to concentrate on the story progress and not that much on incorporating the current politics in it. It is dystopia, we already know it, dont press it.

Art as always is wonderful, even that weird part I mentioned is drawn very well, it is just that it looks so out of place in Blade Runner novel.

So all in all, very good volume number 2, looking forward to next chapter.

Recommended to fans of SF noir detective stories and of course Blade Runner universe.
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Zare | Jan 23, 2024 |
Unlike BladeRunner 2019 this story arc does not have that feeling of completeness.

Starting years before Ash we follow our detective Cal Moreau as he tries to solve the mysterious case of suicide of one of Tyrell Corp highest ranking scientists working on Nexus 5 Replicant product line.
What starts as a suicide slowly (and I mean slowly) evolves into something more sinister and soon we find Cal trying to stay alive and evade Tyrell Corp security people.

Problem with this book is that it is not ..... relaxed would be a word. I haven't read a book so tense, teeth grinding and constantly on the verge of scream and agony - and for no reason whatsoever. At least reason cannot be discerned from the book itself. There are flashbacks for Cal's past and some twist and turns but they all seem half-baked, no conclusion in them - what do they mean, what is their importance? Hopefully story will get better defined in volume #2.

All in all interesting read, but in need of some story-wise polishing. Art is good, giving same look and feel as 2019 story line. You definitely feel you are reading about same futuristic world in these two books.

Recommended to fans of noir and SF. Only beware, this book is more like a warm-up for what is to come.
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Zare | Jan 23, 2024 |
Both previews seem interesting, but neither are long enough to really make the two respective stories stand out. "2029" gets a bit closer to the goal in that it makes it clear its protagonist has some conflicted feelings about Replicants, but beyond that nothing hooks me in before the previews are already over. A longer preview of one story or the other would likely have been much more effective.
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Lucky-Loki | Aug 23, 2021 |
The villain here is forgettable, typical DC "lol cRaZy people" fare, but the real point of this issue is Kate's inner monologue and memories of her childhood. Maybe soon we'll find out what actually happened!
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