Mad Cave Studios brings Snake Plissken back to comics in Kyle Higgins and Val Rodrigues’ Escape from New York: Escape from Chicago series.
The new story begins when Plissken is hired to extract a woman from Chicago who is wanted by the city’s warlord.
“Escape From New York is one of the films that taught me what genre storytelling could be—lean, mean, and built on a world you can’t stop thinking about” Higgins said. “Getting to write in Carpenter’s Manhattan is the kind of thing my younger self wouldn’t have believed. I can’t wait for everyone to see Snake’s next adventure.”
“When I received the invitation to draw this project, I grabbed it with enthusiasm. Having the chance to draw such an iconic character from the movies by such a legendary movie director as John Carpenter is a fun and challenging task” Rodrigues said. “Readers can expect the excitement of a Carpenter-style movie, with a distinctively absurd ’80s action skillfully adapted to the comics medium by Kyle’s writing, and that I’m doing my best to do justice with my linework.”
The first issue features a main cover by Stephen Mooney, and seven variants by Danica Brine, Dan Panosian, Christian Ward, a 1:10 virgin incentive cover by Mooney, a 1:20 incentive cover by Nick Bradshaw and Jim Charalampidis, a foil variant, and a blank sketch cover.
Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago #1 will be available at your local comic shop on September 23.
Check out the main cover by Mooney and Bradshaw and Charalampidis’ variant below and stay tuned to Conskipper for all of your Snake Plissken news.
