marvel comics released the one-shot the adventures of snake plissken in january  the story takes place sometime between escape from new york and before his famous cleveland escape mentioned in escape from la snake has robbed atlantas center for disease control of some engineered metaviruses and is looking for buyers in chicago finding himself in a deal thats really a set-up he makes his getaway and exacts revenge on the buyer for ratting him out to the united states police force in the meantime a government lab has built a robot called atacs autonomous tracking and combat system that can catch criminals by imprinting their personalities upon its program in order to predict and anticipate a specific criminals every move the robots first test subject is americas public enemy number one snake plissken after a brief battle the tide turns when atacs copies snake to the point of fully becoming his personality now recognizing the government as the enemy atacs sides with snake unamused snake sucker punches the machine and destroys it as atacs shuts down it can only ask him "why?" snake just walks off answering "i dont need the competition