Sweet proverbial Jesus riding upon a unicorn, made of kryptonite.
I let this series get away from me.
However it isn't that big a problem.
The nice thing about the last Snake Plissken comic is that it was really simplistic and was ultimately only there is a setup.
Snake Plissken just got out of the ending of the first movie and needed an excuse to get down to Florida or the story is about to take off.
Speaking of Florida, Snake Plissken is currently standing there amongst the newly-created Florida American Border, from the now succession state of Free-Florida.
Which for some reason is run by these two delinquent kids and their ridiculously oversized.. Caretaker?
Somehow they were able to acquire a large stash of atomic weapons from the Cubans which they had kept from the Cuban Missile Crisis.
Now the entire border is littered atomic bombs threatening to go off at the United States should ever dare to try and take it back.
And then there's Snake Plissken.
He's just kind of there.
The kids who run this place want to recruit him as one of their generals for an upcoming War of the United States.
But Snake (the ever disinterested and borderline idiotic) denies them this several times. Even when he's told point-blank that denying them would pretty much mean certain death.
He does it anyways and gets himself locked away in this underwater submarine prison.
You'd think there be a point to him being down here but he just ends up escaping a few pages later and then wanders off to some swampy hillbilly hut town in the middle of a swamp that looks like something out of that Ewoks* Christmas special.
Then he ends up getting arrested again after the exact same military force discovers his location and goes in to kill him.
We're introduced to a variety of characters both in the submarine and the Huts within the swamp but they're all kind of pointless to the overall story.
They either die off instantly or get forgotten later on.
I get that they're trying to mimic the movie where certain characters are seen for a little bit before being killed off, just to show how frail and indifferent everybody is. But it just makes the comics seem like we're wasting time.
That's really the overall feeling I get from this comic. Just kind of a time waste. We're giving little to no character development of anybody we change set locations constantly and the way the panels are arranged we don't get a progression of travel time between these transitions. So it just kind of feels like Snake Plissken is teleporting from one spot to the next.
It's a cool environment with the separatist Florida State being run by a two kids and the idea that they're being backed by a communist government, while China and Russia team up together for a possible World War 3 scenario with the United States after the international bumble involving a cassette tape playing rock and roll.
But as of the moment we just don't get to enjoy any of that.
Instead we're stuck with Snake who still disinterested in everything that's going on.
It's accurate to his character but it's not that engaging to the reader. We already had an entire movie where he's like that. We need to see him care about something.
Even if it's just him trying to get to one location so we can take his boots off for 10 minutes and relax.
So far his greatest character motivation is finding cigarettes. And that seems to be a short-term goal as he has to go out and find more of them.
I can play a Fallout game with a cigarette Mod if I wanted that. Hell I have done that.
*Or maybe it was wookees that lived in those tree forts. I don't remember and I'm sure as hell not going to go look at the movie to find out.
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