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The Escapists Review

I heard about this on G4‘s Fresh Ink podcast. “A comic within a comic”? Well, it certainly lives up to that description.

What it meant for me was something I attempt to do from time to time, is to revamp a character, this for two months, I was trying to revamp Mailbu Comics‘ Ultraforce, and then Nightman.

About two months ago I finished reading this 6 issue mini-series from Dark Horse, and I was never drawn into a story since Marvel’s Bullet Points.

The story is about three independent publishers trying to reboot the golden age hero of the title of the story, and in the actual issues actually give insight of the three main characters. But things take a turn for the worse, when they decide to get attention by breaking into a grocery store that turns out to being robbed, to become the highly must watched video on the internet, then the greedy corporate heads try to frame them to get they copyright back, which result them to ending up with one gets nothing and someones takes an opportunity, and other gets caught in a jam.

But in the end, they receive a compliment to creator’s son for giving it a good shot, and that they ultimately have to do their own thing. To which I was fooled that it would be about their experience, but I can see it as being cliched.This is relatable and convincing.