The great Escapist: Newsweek reviews the first issue of Michael Chabon Presents: The Amazing Adventures of the Escapist, and absolutely gushes:

"Chabon’s 'The Passing of the Key' is, not surprisingly, the strongest story in the collection. The story is taken—at times verbatim—from the pages of the novel. Comparing Chabon’s two takes on the one tale is instructive: the comic misses some of the novel’s virtuoso lyricism, but the novel misses the comic’s ability to provide motion to even the most static passage of exposition through illustration, and the sheer immediacy of the storytelling. This short comic does a better job than any manifesto could of making an argument Chabon has made time and time again: literature cannot survive if it continues to deny itself the pleasures of thrillers, ghost stories, adventure tales, detective fiction and, yes, comics. 'Escape and escapism, in art and literature, have received a bad name,' he writes in his introduction to this collection. 'It was given to them, I believe, by the very people who forged the locks and barred the doors in the first place.'"