The prototype Replicant known only as Elle – aka The Black Lotus Killer, has escaped from the clutches of her creator Niander Wallace and headed out into the desert in search of answers to her mysterious past and a possible redemption.
But deep in the desert wasteland, Elle finds herself stranded in the industrial settlement of Fracktown and drawn into a deadly dispute between the town’s two warring factions that could bring her face-to-face with the one person she is trying to escape from… Niander Wallace.
Written by award-winning horror writer Nancy A. Collins, and illustrated by fan favorite Enid Balam, Blade Runner: Black Lotus heralds a new chapter in the saga of Blade Runner.
Nancy A. Collins is the author of several dark fantasy/horror novels and a prolific short story writer whose work has appeared in over forty anthologies to date. She is a recipient of the Horror Writers of America’s Bram Stoker Award for First Novel and the British Fantasy Society’s Icarus Award, she was nominated for an Eisner Award for her work on Swamp Thing, and was the first woman to script the series. Her novels include the award-winning Sunglasses After Dark, the Golgotham urban fantasy series, and Lynch: A Gothik Western. Her comics work includes Vampirella, Army of Darkness: Furious Road, Jason Vs. Leatherface, and the graphic novel adaption of her own Sunglasses After Dark. A native of Arkansas, she currently makes her home in Macon, Georgia.
Enid Balam lives in Mexico City where he studied art on the MaPA art program at the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos. He graduated in 2016 with a Masters in Artistic Production and established his own screen-print art shop. In 2015 he started his professional comic art career working for a French publisher as a colorist on Cutting Edge. In 2018, he wrote and drew his first graphic novel, Someday Comes Paradise, and in 2020 he drew the four-book miniseries OMNI for an L.A. publishing house. Currently Enid is drawing Reptil miniseries for a leading American publisher.