(pb; 2017: fourth graphic
novel in a series of four. Alternate title: Escape from New York: Escape from Cleveland.
Collects issues #13-16 of the limited-run Escape from New York comic
book. Publisher: Boom! Studios.)
From the back cover
“After Snake Plissken gave the
President his comeuppance in incredibly public fashion, he retreated to a quiet
life, away from the battlefield. That lasted for years, until Federal forces attempt
to seize his land via eminent domain, which brings Snake once again at odds
with his nemesis—the U.S.P.F. This time, Snake’s got a plan to strike back. . .”
Review
The fourth and final volume of Escape takes place fourteen years after the events of Volume 3. Snake has settled down in Ohio, with his faithful dog (affectionately called “Dummy”). But then the day he suspected would come: federal agents come for him after he repels two agents trying to foist an eminent domain order on him. Snake, with help from a few fellow bandits, embarks on a blitzkrieg cycle of robbery, death and other mayhem that leaves few in his sphere untouched.
As with the three previous Escape graphic novels, there’s plenty of humor, twists, explosions, dead people (many of them deserving of their fates) and Snake’s taciturn resistance to those “taking what they think is theirs.” The ending leaves Snake’s journey open to future adventures while providing a character- and story-true denouement of sorts. Excellent, fun wrap-up to a bang-up graphic novel/movie tie-in series.
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