The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist

Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay was a pretty good book - I loved the style and that period in New York, but truthfully it could have lost 100-200 pages and been even better. I thought it dragged in the middle (though not as bad as Life of Pi mind you), but I loved the descriptions of the comic books that Kavalier and Clay created. Apparently I was not alone, because Michael Chabon and Dark Horse are now producing The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, the comic described in the novel. The Escapist is a magician who fights the Nazis with feats of illusion, which sounds a little wanky but will probably be charming. The first edition is scheduled to be released in April and will include a short story by Chabon.