Escape from New York -- Issue #01

Escape from New York is originally a movie, made in 1981 with Kurt Russell as soldier turned rebel, Snake Plissken. The story is set in then-futuristic 1996 where New York City has been turned into a giant prison. There is a plane crash over the city and the President of the United States, although alive, is now in this chaos being held prisoner. Snake gets called in to save the President and this very important tape. Long story short, Snake does his job, saves the day but publicly humiliates the President by switching out the tapes for his live speech with a dummy tape. End scene.

This comic is the sequel to the movie (although there already was a sequel to the movie, called Escape from LA, but I guess everyone is forgetting that detail) So here we find Snake Plissken, getting out of jail for his crime, a few years later, on the run from the government. He meets a crew of satanic freaks who are headed to Florida, which has within the last 6 years, gained freedom from the US, and is now a separate country with no laws or rules, governed by a set of gun-loving twins named Romulus and Remus.

The art is made to look dated, it really feels like you're just watching a continuation of the movie, or reading a sequel comic that was actually made in like 1983 a few years after the original movie. It is outrageously cheesy, very over the top, but that is also what makes it very, very awesome.

Something else that is cool is the type for this comic is the same as it was for the original movie.