Escape from New York: Volume Two by Christopher Sebela and various artists

 

(pb; 2016: second graphic novel in a series of four. Collects issues #5-8 of the limited-run Escape from New York comic book. Publisher: Boom! Studios.)

 

From the back cover

“After making it through the madhouse of Florida, Snake Plissken gets on a plane, only to be thrown out over Siberia, returning him to a battlefield he thought he left behind. Continuing the story that picks up right where the classic film left off, writer Christopher Sebela (High Crimes, Welcome Back) and artist Diego Barreto (Iredeemable) drop the classic antihero into the middle of a brand-new Cold War.”

 

 

Review

In the also titled Escape from New York: Escape from Siberia, Snake is dropped (with a parachute) into all-too-familiar, war-torn Leningrad, site of his previous, pre-crime military assignment. There he is forced to join a U.S. military unit led by Major King, an icy and sly woman who takes an instant dislike to Snake. Not only that, the helmeted and metal masked soldier known as Texas Thunder, with his spiked metal suit, is in the unit as well. Who is Texas Thunder? (Read and find out!).

When Snake winds up in Tunguska, site of a famous meteor crash, he and his reluctant and sociopathic scientist fellow traveler (Bulgarov) encounter a dangerous cult, whose goals and upcoming ceremony may prove fatal to Snake and Bulgarov.

Vol. Two/Siberia, like Vol. 1/Florida, is an excellent, tone- and character-true (thus far) follow-up to the original Escape (1981), with its wild characters, humor. The artwork is good as well. This is a fun, fast-moving and bursting-with-action read, one with a cliffhanger finish. Followed by Escape from New York: Escape to New York.