Hey how about that.
In the last Escape From New York Comic I complained that Snake Plissken had no real motivation. And that finally got resolved (to an extent) here.
He's still not fully committed to caring, but he's at least got some direction now.
Jumping immediately from last time. Snake Plissken has been recaptured by the 'Free Republic of Florida'. After assisting a small rebellion town of rednecks, living out in the swamps.
The guards who captured Snake Plissken execute all of the people of said settlements and then take Plisskin back to the kids, too work as a Drill Sergeant for their army.
Initially snake is very upset by this. He was told that the villagers would not be executed if he gave himself up.
However they were executed for a secondary problem.
If you ask me that seems a very obvious oversight.
This Republic has little to no law and is ruled under absolute dictatorial control.
You have to suspect that these people are going to die no matter the outcome. But all the same; Snake Plissken is then return to an army barracks where he's been given a slave collar on his head. than told that he has to train the soldiers for the upcoming war against the United States.
Plissken does the bare minimum, drilling the soldiers but more or less informing them that no matter what they do. They're going to die pointlessly in a conflict against a much more powerful adversary. He's incredibly indifferent to the whole scenario, mocking and berating everyone around him.
Even to the kids themselves; Who invited him back to their home so he could have a decent night's sleep. With a surprisingly well put together bedroom and his choice of male or female companions.
He doesn't want ether and throws them out.
Later on he'll try to escape from this mansion and get stopped.
Before deciding to arrange a different escape plan with one of the other prisoners (Curtis) by sneaking out at night time and sabotaging everything around the base. From stealing Munitions to acquiring the atomic bombs which have been placed in all the missiles as a deterrent against the United States invading them immediately
Now you might think it's a fruitless plan, especially given that slave collar on Snakes neck. But he doesn't believe in it.
He claims that the whole thing is just a mirage and that nothing in this godforsaken ''Republic'' works. So he test his luck by stealing the Detonator off of the surrogate mother who's taking care of the kids and then pushes the button; Not actually knowing if it's going to go off. Luckily for him it turned out to be a dud and the slave collars have no at practical use.
So snake along with Curtis fulfill their task of supposedly sabotaging the entire area and planning their great emancipation out of this work camp.
However Snake has been stopped again and told by the kids that he was never meant to train their soldiers from the onset.
It turns out they were just using him as a distraction as the US government who are really keen to getting back Snake Plissken.
Most likely so they can execute them for treason.
The kids want to stick him inside one of the nukes and fire in directly at the United States as a mission statement of War.
But before any of this can happen; Snake was able to escape their clutches yet again and then heads off to the American\Florida border. Where he escalates the war by shooting at one of the guards on the American side.
Now war is coming into Florida and Snake along with Curtis finally make their escape. Being chased half by the American government and possibly by the Florida forces as well.
It's all in all it's a improvement over the last issue.
Though the artwork still feels slightly disconnected to me and the action happens to quickly.
We're just told that he escaped from some of these rooms half the time. We never actually see him do it.
I guess they just want to keep things moving and it's not really that big a deal to know if Snake can or can't get out of a room.
As we're showing through various other comics (and the film itself) that he has a knack for escaping undesirable locations.
I'll give this comic one thing. It made me genuinely interested to read the next issue, which is something that neither the first nor second comic was able to do.
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