Escape From New York #1

BOOM! ⋅ 2014
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Key Facts

Adaptation of the 1981 film of the same name

[September 2021- Studiocanal production company and Fox Searchlight are developing an Escape From New York remake / November 2022 - directing team Radio Silence to direct reboot for 20th Century Studios]

Issue Details

Publisher

BOOM!

Artist

Declan Shalvey

Writer

Christopher Sebela

Published

December 2014

Synopsis

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 noBut 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 Awardoriginal, 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!

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