The Escapists by Brian K Vaughn and a host of artists

One of my favorite books of all time is Michael Chabon’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. The book is not has suburb writing, it is also set around some of my favorite times (the early years of the US comic book industry). After the book came out (and subsequently won the Pulitzer Prize), Chabon sensibly decided to extend the reach of the book by having various authors and writiers contribute short comic stories to an anthology Michael Chabon Presents. . .The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist. This anthology showed various stories featuring the fictional comic book characters from within the book. In addition, there was a comic mini-series (written by Brian K Vaughn with art by Steve Rolston and Philip Bond (live action scenes) and son Shawn Alexander and Eduardo Barreto (comic book scenes)) that is set in the Kavalier and Clay universe. The story is set in a universe where there where Escapist comic books and introduces a new trio who find reason to bring back the Escapist comic book to interesting ends. Let’s see what happened.

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