Tag: Escape from New York: Escape from Chicago

Can’t Wait for Wednesday | ‘That Texas Blood’ saddles up again in a new miniseries

New comics and graphic novels arrive this week by Chris Condon, Jacob Phillips, Christopher Cantwell, Dennis Menheere, Raina Telgemeier, Gale Galligan, Jim Zub, Jesus Merino and more.

Welcome to Can’t Wait for Wednesday, your guide to what’s coming to your local comic shop this week.

I’ve pulled out some of the highlights for this week below, but for the complete list of everything you might find at your local comic shop and on digital this week, you’ll want to check out one or more of the following:

As a reminder, things can change and what you find on the above lists may differ from what’s actually arriving in your local shop. So check with your retailer to see what’s arriving at their shop this week.

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Snake Plissken returns in new comic ‘Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago’

Kyle Higgins and Val Rodrigues return to the world of John Carpenter’s 1981 cult classic, sending the iconic antihero on a new adventure this September.

Mad Cave Studios has picked up the license to make comics based on John Carpenter’s 1981 film Escape from New York, a cult classic that saw Kurt Russell rescue the president when he crash-lands inside the prison that used to be New York.

The comic will head west, though, as Kyle Higgins and Val Rodrigues bring us Escape From New York: Escape From Chicago this September.

“Escape From New York is one of the films that taught me what genre storytelling could be—lean, mean, and built on a world you can’t stop thinking about,” Higgins said. “Getting to write in Carpenter’s Manhattan is the kind of thing my younger self wouldn’t have believed. I can’t wait for everyone to see Snake’s next adventure.” 

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