Mad Cave Studios streets Escape from New York: Escape from Chicago #1 on Wednesday, September 23, 2026 — $4.99, 32 pages full color — with writer Kyle Higgins and artist Val Rodrigues sending Snake Plissken into a new prison-territory job (Comics Beat; retailer listing via Comix Zone; Sep 23 roundup via Graphic Policy).
Snake as coyote across dead zones
Published solicit: Plissken now survives as a coyote smuggling people and contraband across dangerous dead zones between prison territories like Chicago. Hired to extract a woman wanted by the city’s warlord, Snake sees one more chance at redemption — or one more chance for the universe to kick his ass. Item code JUL267986.
Higgins × Rodrigues + multi-cover first print
Higgins (Radiant Black) frames the series as lean Carpenter-style genre storytelling in Plissken’s world; Rodrigues brings the linework. Comics Beat notes eight first-printing covers, including art by Stephen Mooney (Cover A), Danica Brine, Dan Panosian, Christian Ward, and Nick Bradshaw & Jim Charalampidis, plus virgin incentive, foil, and blank sketch options. Soft film-franchise context only — John Carpenter’s 1981 classic and prior comic runs at BOOM! and elsewhere.
