Escapists #1 (of 6)

(W) Brian K. Vaughan (A) Philip Bond. Wizard Top Ten and multiple Eisner Award-winning writer Brian K. Vaughan (Y: The Last Man* Ex Machina* Runaways) teams with critically acclaimed artists Philip Bond (Vimanarama* Vertigo Pop* Tank Girl) and Eduardo Barreto (Batman* The Long Haul) to deliver this knockout first issue! 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. After exhausting the extensive stash of Golden and Silver Age comics* he needed more and started writing his own Escapist stories. Now nineteen* he's determined to make the character a sensation once again* but where is he going to find an artist in Cleveland? Meet Maxwell Roth and Case Weaver* latter-day versions of Joe Kavalier and Sam Clay* in part one of The Escapists! With cover art by multi-platinum superstar Frank Miller kicking off a round robin of stellar cover artists including James Jean and John Cassaday* this launch of the first Escapist miniseries can't be missed! * Special Introductory price: $1.00! * "[Vaughan] turned in a script that caused grown men* or at least one grown man* to weep for joy. It is a script that well meets* and perhaps even exceeds* the expectations raised by the shadow of the parent novel . . ."