Vaughan ( Saga, Y-The Last Man, Ex Machina) successfully crafts the perfect partner to Michael Chabon's masterpiece. Will it be enough to make the book a success? Or just enough to get them in jail? Interwoven with Max's struggles are the comic-within-a-comic stories of The Escapist himself, his ally Luna Moth, good old-fashioned death traps, betrayal, and a touch of romance.

Through a couple risky publicity stunts-including one that makes national news-the creators risk criminal charges to get the word out about their publication. Together with his friend Denny Jones, and their newfound artist Case Weaver, Max relaunches The Escapist comics. Now nineteen, he's determined to make the character a sensation once again. After exhausting the extensive stash of Golden and Silver Age comics, he needed more-and started writing his own Escapist stories. Discovering his late father's decades-spanning vault of Escapist memorabilia at the age of six, Max became a fan of the Master of Elusion almost overnight. The stories and text pieces were written with the concept that Kavalier and Clay were real people and that the Escapist had actually been a character from the Golden Age of Comics. The lives of these creators Max, Denny, and Case-latter day versions of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay-are brilliantly woven together with the world of their creations. Michael Chabon Escapist Amazing Adv TP: In the fictional world of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, the Esc. Named Michael Chabon Presents the Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, the comic chronicled the supposed decades-long publishing history of the character. Vaughan's love letter to his chosen medium. Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, this story of three aspiring comics creators with big dreams, small cash, and publishing rights to one forgotten Golden Age hero-The Escapist-is Brian K.

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