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VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) Christopher Sebela
(A) Diego Barreto
(CA) Declan Shalvey, Tim Bradstreet
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 no­brainer. 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 Award­nominated 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!
Date Available: 12/03/2014
BONUS REVIEW by John E.


I want to like this book a lot more. As a big fan of John Carpenter (Escape from NY being one of my personal favorites) I was looking forward to this more than Big Trouble in Little China. Like the BTiLC comic, this issue picks up where the film ended. The book feels like its trying to hit the same feel as the movie, however to me it feels to be missing something. I can't say it's the writing, as Snake is written with his usual "I don't care" attitude he has whenever he isn't saddled with an explosive or a fake virus. The pacing is fast and the art is okay but not great. Lots of random characters popping up but none stick around (even less than they do in the movie). The last third act in the issue seems like they're trying to sell you on Snake and make him the badass you already had accepted him as and comes off a bit choppy. Okay cliffhanger at the end though, although we all know how that will end (Bankok Rules probably). I don't know the level of involvement Carpenter may have had in this (he gave Boom an outline for the BTILC comic) but I haven't really been able to find any info like that for this book. All in all, It's an okay book, not bad but doesn't live up to the namesake in my opinion. Its fun, but it really doesn't stand out like it should.

I give it 6 out of 10 Grahams


VERY FINE/NEAR MINT
(W) Christopher Sebela
(A) Diego Barreto
(CA) Declan Shalvey, Tim Bradstreet
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 no­brainer. 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 Award­nominated 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!
Date Available: 12/03/2014
BONUS REVIEW by John E.


I want to like this book a lot more. As a big fan of John Carpenter (Escape from NY being one of my personal favorites) I was looking forward to this more than Big Trouble in Little China. Like the BTiLC comic, this issue picks up where the film ended. The book feels like its trying to hit the same feel as the movie, however to me it feels to be missing something. I can't say it's the writing, as Snake is written with his usual "I don't care" attitude he has whenever he isn't saddled with an explosive or a fake virus. The pacing is fast and the art is okay but not great. Lots of random characters popping up but none stick around (even less than they do in the movie). The last third act in the issue seems like they're trying to sell you on Snake and make him the badass you already had accepted him as and comes off a bit choppy. Okay cliffhanger at the end though, although we all know how that will end (Bankok Rules probably). I don't know the level of involvement Carpenter may have had in this (he gave Boom an outline for the BTILC comic) but I haven't really been able to find any info like that for this book. All in all, It's an okay book, not bad but doesn't live up to the namesake in my opinion. Its fun, but it really doesn't stand out like it should.

I give it 6 out of 10 Grahams


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