![]() Leatherface, a three-part series by Nancy Collins, David Imhoff, and Jeff Butler.ĭespite being released in 1995, the chronology is very choosy, ignoring the history of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre stuff to make sure Leatherface and his brothers Cook and Hitchhiker are both alive. No, they didn’t get Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof, but-Listen, they got Leatherface from Texas Chainsaw Massacre, okay? More specifically, we got Jason vs. Okay, they didn’t get Michael Meyers, but the next best thing after that. Topps didn’t want to wait to give us a big slasher icon crossover and while they didn’t get the rights to Freddy, they got the next best thing. It just, you know, took ten years, is all. That was the original “Nick Fury asks Tony Stark to join the Avengers” moment. Read more – Friday the 13th: A Celebration of Roy Burnsīut really, all anyone remembers Jason Goes to Hell for is that cameo at the end when Freddy Krueger pulls down Jason’s mask and cackles. So Jason’s heart hypnotizes the coroner into eating it and he goes around vomiting the heart into people’s throats to change hosts until he can find and kill the rest of his bloodline. If you haven’t seen it or don’t remember, Jason Goes to Hell is the movie where the FBI finally decides to do something about Jason and blows him to kingdom come in the first few minutes, onlit turns out that he can’t be killed unless stabbed in the heart by another Voorhees (though the comic keeps spelling it “Vorhees”). By the time any comic company thinks of doing anything with Friday the 13th, we’re already at the ninth movie, which was the last Jason movie for eight years. By this point, the movie franchise was in dire straits. Based on the screenplay, the comic is written by Andy Mangels and drawn by Cynthia Martin. And at that point, readers stopped caring.Īs Kamodious referenced, Jason was at the time starring in Jason Goes to Hell: The Final Friday, otherwise known as Friday the 13th Part IX. The angelic Pristine interrupts and calls out how this was a pointless cameo to justify advertising Jason on the cover, which came at the cost of continuing their very story. Kamodious summons him back where he found him and starts making a blatant reference about Jason going to Hell. Despite only appearing for a couple of pages, Jason says that six times. It didn’t last long enough to finish and with Satan’s Six, it’s no wonder.Īnyone else find randomly and casually tossing Jason into a superhero universe’s continuity really weird?įrightful and teammate Bluedragon go after Jason, but he responds by throwing them a couple times and saying, “HRMM,” a lot. Satan’s Six was part of the Secret City Saga, where Topps created a big story using a bunch of leftover Jack Kirby ideas that he never did anything with in the form of several miniseries that intertwined (think Grant Morrison’s Seven Soldiers). One of the two comics was Satan’s Six #4by Tony Isabella and John Cleary. Two comics came out this month with Jason in them, so it’s hard to say what was his very first appearance. Topps Comics first picked up the license and Jason’s comic book debut came in July of 1993. ![]() Jason Voorhees didn’t get the same treatment. They were around for all four movies as well as the stretch where he was just about nostalgia. For comparison, the RoboCop comics all stretched across the franchise’s entire existence. The surprising thing to me is that the earliest Jason comic is only in the early 90s. Many have told his tale in comic form and since the early ’90s, he’s been represented by three different publishers. Granted, he’s a one-dimensional supervillain with an incredibly vague origin story, but he’s been memorable enough to land him a dozen movie appearances. It shouldn’t be surprising that he’s had his share of comic book adventures, what with him essentially being a supervillain in a story with no superheroes. Friday the 13th’s Jason Voorhees has been part of pop-culture for decades.
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