To help promote the April 14 release of the new edition of Paul Pope's long-out-of-print 1999 graphic novel Escapo, Z2 Comics has released a video in which the artist describes his vision of the book, and more.

"[It's] my attempt at at making an incredible Fellini meets Jack Kirby mash-up comic book, y'know, like the artist who escapes death," he explains. "I thought it was time to do something really serious, y'know. I was really into Nick Cave at the time, and the Murder Ballads album came out, and he had 'Stagger Lee' and 'Henry Lee' and all of these beautiful songs, and it's like, 'Man, I think I can do something like this in comics.'"

The new edition, which Pope refers to as "a new book," is redesigned in the French BD format by Jim Pascoe, and boasts colors by Shay Plummer, more than 50 pages of bonus content, pin-ups by other artists and a two-page alternate ending previously seen only in the French edition.