The madmen over at Boom! Studios have received John Carpenter’s blessing to create a crossover of 1986’s Big Trouble in Little China and 1981’s Escape From New York. How is this possible, you ask? Well, it’s a bit of a doozy but here we go!
According to EW, Jack Burton will be, “…transported to the dystopian future of 1997, where he meets his taciturn, eyepatch-sporting doppelgänger Snake Plissken.” The comic will have six issues written by Greg Pak and illustrated by Daniel Bayliss and it’s not yet stated if the two are going to work together or face off in some way. Perhaps it’ll start with the latter and move to the former? The cover variants of the first issue, which you can see below, certainly suggest that.
Both Burton and Plissken were played by Kurt Russell, who gave each a very unique personality. While Burton is a cocky, loud-mouthed braggart, Plissken is far more quiet but certainly far more deadly.
Hey, Boom! Studios? My subscription check is in the mail.
