Snake Plissken had to hustle to escape the clutches of the USPF after ripping the innards out of that critical cassette tape following his rescue of the President. While that crucial decision may have been the end of John Carpenter's cult classic 1981 film, it's only the beginning of the Escape From New York comic book series from BOOM! Studios.
Hitting comic shop shelves today, the third issue sees Snake getting entangled in more politics-fueled peril after the leaders of the Free Republic of Florida force him to train their troops. If you haven't picked the latest issue up yet, we have a set of preview pages teasing Snake's brutally honest training sessions.
Escape from New York #3
Author: Christopher Sebela
Artist: Diego Barreto
Cover Artists: Main A: Declan Shalvey Main B: Riley Rossmo Variant: Chris Visions
Synopsis: "Are you ready for…General Plissken? The independent state of Florida has forced Snake to train their troops for the inevitable war with the United States. But you know Snake, he’s not exactly “Employee of the Year.” He’s just trying to find his freedom, and may anger two warring factions in the process!"
“WHY WE LOVE IT: We can’t get enough John Carpenter! It means so much to us to have brought Big Trouble in Little China to comics the right way. The response has been so strong that we knew we had to bring another Carpenter classic to comics in a style and approach that does Escape from New York justice.
WHY YOU’LL LOVE IT: If you already love the Escape from New York film, this is a no-brainer. But if Escape from New York is new to you, writer Christopher Sebela has been garnering high praise for his recent BOOM! Studios original Dead Letters, as well as for his Eisner Award-nominated original, High Crimes.
WHAT IT’S ABOUT: The crime rate in the United States has risen 400 percent. After humiliating the President in front of the world and destroying America’s one chance to end World War III, Snake Plissken has become America’s Most Wanted man in a land of criminals and the insane. Everyone wants Snake dead. Luckily, Snake knows the feeling all too well. War hero. Outlaw. Renegade. Snake’s back!”
Raised on a steady diet of R.L. Stine’s Goosebumps books and Are You Afraid of the Dark?, Derek has been fascinated with fear since he first saw ForeverWare being used on an episode of Eerie, Indiana.
When he’s not writing about horror as the Senior News Reporter for Daily Dead, Derek can be found daydreaming about the Santa Carla Boardwalk from The Lost Boys or reading Stephen King and Brian Keene novels.
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