Picking up at the end of the movie we see Snake Plissken wandering down a military installation having just rescued the Presidents and swapping out a piece of key information in the form of a cassette tape with a tape that he had from an old taxi car that blurs some swing music. I'll admit I don't remember what the song was.
This starts the ball rolling on another Snake Plissken Adventure he runs away from the very people he was just working for.
Personally I don't blame Snake for doing this. They put a suicide mechanism in his neck to make sure that you couldn't run away and it's pretty well indicated that they were going to try and arrest him anyways at some point. So he probably would have gotten screwed over no matter what happened. - will give a big screw you to the United States and deprive them of their precious preventative nuclear Annihilation tape. Whatever the heck that thing was supposed to be.
Snake was able to escape the pursuing military men mainly down to the fact that they couldn't be bothered to catch him.
Not only was it a hard and arduous task but they knew who the guy was. Most of them figured they'd end up dead if they tried tessling with Snake so why not just let him run off. After all everything so screwed up now that it doesn't matter anyways.
Everybody's listening to the radios or talking to each other about how stupid the president is because of his massive blunder involving musical tape.
China and Russia are now negotiating peace talks with each other, but not with the United States.
Making the world war even more difficult for them.
Tho looking around at this world you discover that it's pretty hopeless anyways. The entire system is falling apart, everything is becoming militarised.
Florida is it completely independent state separated from the United States by possible Atomic weapons given to them by the Cubans.
Which leads to the opening plot of this story and Snake Plissken getting away from the United States armed forces and decides that Florida is his best bet.
He hitchhikes a ride of a bunch of loonies who want to head there for there spiritual Freedom.
Snake doesn't really care about any of this, he's just kind of on the run.
In a way I don't think he knows what to do with himself. He's one of those people that either just keeps running, keeps fighting or just died somewhere.
He does make it to Florida only accompanied by one of the people that he was originally hitchhiking with.
He decides to beat the crap out of one of them and steal the truck.
They're a bunch of amateur looney's running around looting liquor stores and getting the heat over their heads.
So now Snake has to enter this testing Arena on his own. The woman that came with them decides she doesn't wants to live a life of danger anymore.
Deciding instead take the nice car they stole and head back to her Midwestern home.
Snake makes his way through an obstacle course that's meant to test the endurance of people wanting to enter Florida. Supposedly it's a land only for the strong. Which Snake Plissken probably could get through but he decides to cheaters way through the obstacle course anyways simply for the disinterested at all. Finally he finds himself inside Florida where he's about to be killed by a group of armed thugs as his refuses to get a job which is considered mandatory in their Land. he probably be dead at this point but is spared because the leaders of this floor didn't land want him around. And it turns out to be these two teenagers who somehow ended up taking control of the entire country. It's ludicrous but so was the rest of this universe. It's honestly I'm not too bothered by it.
As a first issue goes it's an okay. It's pretty minimalistic in its characters. As Snake Plissken doesn't make for all that entertaining a protagonist.
He acts the way is he supposed to in the movie but as stated above its kind of aimless.
Which I personally love. I wouldn't want it any other way.
But I suspect later comics are going to have to introduce more zany character to try and add a little flare to the Snake Plissken Adventure.
Kind of like how we got the Duke of New York in the movie.
The writing is okay. Obviously it's simplistic but once again that's kind of the point here.
The drawing style is adequate. Everything's lacks colour and the characters faces can look a little dull at times.
I suspect they have the rights to use Kurt Russell's face given that Snake Plissken does look like him enough. Maybe that was just an off panel that I paid too much attention to. But so far the drawing is fine like everything else I should hope it improves with time.
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