"When Matt Roth's father dies, he spends his entire inheritance buying the Escapist's trademark rights. Hoping to introduce the Escapist to a new generation of comics fans he assembles a team of artists. Though, after a publicity stunt featuring the hero goes wrong, the fiasco threatens to ground the entire project"-- Provided by publisher.

"This volume collects issues one through six of the Dark Horse comic book series The Escapists, originally published in 2006 and collected as a hardcover edition in 2007 and softcover edition in 2009."