I’m an unabashed John Carpenter fan. From They Live to Halloween to Big Trouble to The Thing and beyond, Carpenter is a film maker who captured an era in all its different weirdness and made it sing. And while we may have solved that no-brainer of a teaser and what it implied, we got quite a few details wrong.
As revealed at San Diego Comic-Con, “Escape from New York” will be written by Chris Sebela and illustrated by an unnamed artist. Following up from the first film in Snake’s adventures (Escape from New York) and completely disregarding every other comic published so far, the book is set in the dystopic future of 1997. Sebela teased that the book will follow Plissken around the country as we explore the statue of the union, since so far we only know what the world is like in New York and LA but nothing in between. The title is a bit curious as Snake will be out of New York for this series, but c’est la vie.
This is BOOM!’s second installment in the Carpenter-verse in comics, having previously gotten Brian Churilla and Eric Powell to do a follow-up to “Big Trouble in Little China,” which had its work cut out for it. In terms of “Escape,” though, there is less available considering the events of the film. There will be some elements from New York taken into consideration for the ongoing plot, such as Snake’s utter humiliation of the President at the end of the film, but the book will mostly focus on new elements to the character and his kick-ass journey.
All BOOM! needs now is a Thing ongoing book to complete the Kurt Russel trifecta, and by the way, BOOM!, if you need to reach me my e-mail is below this post.
“Escape from New York” arrives in stores December 3rd.
