Kara Dennison
May 21, 2025 
Can’t get enough Blade Runner? Fortunately, there are plenty of films and spinoffs out there to keep even the most demanding fan busy. And this September, we’re getting more. Titan Comics has announced BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS – LAS VEGAS, a new comic series that will pick up where the anime left off.
Who’s behind the new title? What’s next for Elle? And where does this new story fit in the timeline? Read on and find out!
A New Story
This new comic series picks up after BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS and its sequel comic, Leaving L.A. Blade Runner veterans Nancy A. Collins and Jesus Hervas team up to bring Elle’s next adventures to life. A summary from Titan Comics describes what’s next for the combat Replicant:
Her quest takes her to the irradiated city of Las Vegas (briefly glimpsed in BLADE RUNNER 2049), now a ghost-town following the detonation of a dirty bomb.
There she finds a community of Replicants who once serviced the casinos as the living embodiments of ancient Egyptians and Romans. Meanwhile Niander Wallace, inheritor of the Replicant technology of Eldon Tyrell, has dispatched a battle-hardened squad of mercenaries to track her and bring her back dead or alive.
Timeline
Over the decades, the Blade Runner franchise has branched out in all sorts of wild directions. Spanning from an alternate 2009 to 2039, the series is packed with exciting stories. So where does this new BLACK LOTUS installment fit? Luckily, Titan Comics has made a handy chart to show us!
The chart above shows where all the Titan Comics Blade Runner releases fall with respect to each other. While you can enjoy any of these branching stories independent of each other, enthusiasts can use this as a road map to get the whole story.
Other Stories
If you can’t wait for the new BLACK LOTUS comic, why not pick up some other comics from Titan’s Blade Runner line? Blade Runner: Tokyo Nexus, released earlier this year, might be right up your street. Set in 2015, this comic follows a pair of Blade Runners as they track down a squad of missing Combat Replicants. Their plan is to retire. But retirement costs money, which they plan to acquire from Tyrell. The comic introduces Kathanlia, a war-torn new world in the universe of the story.
Plus, you’ll soon have new ways to enjoy other comics in the Blade Runner universe. Titan has announced hardcover omnibus editions of 2019, 2029, and 2039. The books will be one at a time on a monthly basis, starting with Blade Runner 2019 on September 2.
BLADE RUNNER: BLACK LOTUS – LAS VEGAS comes out in September 2025.
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