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The Snake Plissken Chronicles
"Draw"
Escape from New York #14 (BOOM Studios)
Writer: Christopher Sebela
Artist: Maxim Šimić
Colorist: Marissa Louise
Letterer: Ed Dukeshire
Cover A: Jason Copland
January 2016 |
Snake vs. America.
Story Summary
Snake visits a neighboring lunatic called
the Cowboy, who has a fortress full of guns and reluctant
followers. Snake wants some guns to fight off the USPF who are
coming to seize as house. Snake can't pay for the weapons and
refuses to merge his land to the Cowboy's to form a new America.
The Cowboy decides that means Snake is against him and
challenges him to a
duel
with pistols. Snake wins by cheating
and kills the Cowboy in the duel. The Cowboy's followers aren't
too heartbroken about it and let Snake take weapons and a
monster truck.
Snake uses the guns and truck to pound the
USPF forces that arrive at his house, but eventually the truck
is destroyed and Snake is forced to flee his home.
Snake makes his way to Cleveland and hooks
up with Carjack Malone, Texas Mike, and Sadie for a robbery of
the Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland. The heist is going well
and Snake even finds some historical U.S. documents there, but
then Malone betrays them to the USPF. Despite this, Snake, Mike,
and Sadie manage an escape with the loot in an armored truck.
CONTINUED IN ESCAPE FROM NEW YORK
#15
Didja Know?
The issues of this series do not have published individual
titles assigned to them. I assigned the title
"Draw" based on the duel between Snake and the Cowboy in
this issue and the similarity of Snake cheating in it as he will
later do in Escape from L.A.
For some reason, the initials of most of
the states on the "Join or Die" segmented snake political
cartoon on the inside front cover are missing starting with this
issue and through the last issue of the series (#16, "Burning Down the House"). Only the
initials N.C. (North Carolina) and N.J. (New Jersey) are in
place. No explanation is given there or within the story.
Characters appearing in this
issue
Snake Plissken
The Cowboy (dies in this issue)
Fresno (dog)
Carjack Malone
Sadie
Texas Mike
Didja Notice?
Snake drives to Valley City to visit the Cowboy. This is
presumably Valley City, Ohio, about 40 miles southeast of
Cleveland, the approximate area Snake lives at in the
previous issue, "Get
the Hell Off My Lawn".
On pages 4-5, Snake is forced into a gun duel with the
Cowboy. The duel and outcome are somewhat similar to the
"Bangkok rules" duel Snake has with Cuervo's men in
Escape from L.A.
On page 8, Snake is on the phone with Malone. This may be
Carjack Malone, who later becomes Hershe sometime before the
events of Escape from L.A.
Additionally, the character called Mike may be Texas Mike,
mentioned as an associate of Snake's and Malone's sometime
before that film.
On page 9, Sadie remarks that she thought Snake was taller.
This is a running joke in Escape
from L.A.
| Snake begins outlining
a plan to his new cohorts to rob the Federal Reserve on page
9. The Federal Reserve is the central banking system of the
United States, with branches scattered across the country.
It's implied that Snake's gang is robbing the bank located
in
Cleveland and the artist's rendition of the building is
similar to the Cleveland one. |
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| Fed bank in this issue |
Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland |
On page 10, Snake remarks that with the east coast falling
apart, all the money's moved further west. It's not
explained why the east coast is considered as "falling
apart", but probably has to do with the violent changes in
the federal government centered in Washington D.C. over the
past decade-plus as depicted in all of the Snake Plissken
stories.
On pages 12-13, Snake appears to be wielding an Uzi pistol.
Sadie is armed with one on page 19.
On page 15, Sadie tells the others she's going to buy her
way to France with her share of the money they're stealing
from the Federal Reserve, having heard that it's hardly
radioactive there anymore. Presumably, France has been
involved with the wars described in past stories and was
struck by nuclear weapons in portions of the country.
Malone tells the others he's going to buy a huge boat and
cruise what's left of California. The preamble of
Escape from L.A. reveals that a huge
earthquake struck Los Angeles in 2000, breaking the city off
from the mainland of California to form Los Angeles Island.
Snake unexpectedly discovers that items from the
National
Archives have apparently been moved to the Federal
Reserve since Washington D.C. started going sidewise. A
couple of the historic documents Snake finds appear to be
the Articles of Confederation and the U.S. Bill of Rights.
The Articles of Confederation were the
first constitution of the United States of America, ratified
in 1781 (replaced by the United States Constitution in
1789). The U.S. Bill of Rights is the collective term for
the first 10 amendments to the Constitution (the real Bill
of Rights does not say "Bill of Rights" on the top as the
one seen here does!). The sealed
documents Snake is seen holding here are much smaller in
dimension than the real world documents.
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