Jason Voorhees, the bloodthirsty Jason from Friday the 13th, is known to have faced off against a number of opponents throughout the years, and he has always come out on top, no matter the odds. He traveled to space in the 2001 film Jason X, as you may recall. It is a reality that if you make too many films in a franchise, you will run out of ideas about where to take it.
In the later films, the same thing happened with franchises like Leprechaun and Hellraiser. Jason X was the closing act in the Friday the 13th series’ very entertaining theater of insanity. Despite this, Avatar Press issued a comic book sequel to the 2001 film, Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X, in 2006. In the comic, Jason is pitted against Jason X, sometimes known as Uber Jason, and the conflict takes place largely in space.
The two Jasons continue their quest for vengeance against relatively innocent adolescents by painting the space red. In this video, we will look at the aforementioned Avatar Press comic and get a dosage of the gore and deshabillé that is a staple of Friday the 13th flicks. Let us get this party started, shall we?
A Little Background
After the events of the film Freddy vs. Jason, Jason Voorhees was arrested and kept at the Crystal Lake Research facility. They tried all they could to kill him once and for all but to no avail. Finally, scientist Rowan LaFontaine suggests that it would be best to put Jason into cryogenic sleep and save the town from his wrath.
Flash forward to the year 2455, Earth had become an ecological mess and couldn’t sustain life anymore, so people started to live on another planet that they called Earth 2. A group of researchers from Earth 2 land on Earth and reach the Crystal Lake Research Facility, where Jason was still alive and asleep.
There, they find Jason in cryogenic sleep and bring him onboard. Due to his appearance, they thought that Jason was dead and left him in the morgue, but Jason never dies, does he? He wakes from his slumber and resumes his bloody business once again. One by one, the bodies begin to pile up.
To fight this dastardly killing machine, the crew of the ship upgrades a robot named KM 14. After the upgrade, KM 14 gets advanced combat skills and weapons. KM 14 seemingly kills Jason by severing his limbs, ribs, and a part of his head. They sent distress signals and set explosive charges on the ship. However, the ship’s nanites rebuild Jason into a cyborg or Uber Jason. Their ship named Grendel crashes on Earth 2, and Jason finds himself falling into another lake.
Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X Issue 1
The comic Friday the 13th: Jason X vs. Jason largely ignores the film’s ending and places Jason on a spaceship called the SS Fun Club, that’s a space-faring pleasure house of sorts. Meanwhile, a group of salvagers and thieves reach the initial ship Grendel to take whatever they could and sell the salvaged parts.
The four member-crew reaches Grendel while the fifth member and pilot, Melda, guides the other three from the spaceship, Pompei, in which they all had come. Their priced target is the nano unit that rests on Grendel and could sell for at least thirty million dollars. They turned on the ship’s power, but this was going to be the beginning of their end. Just as the power came back, the advanced medical pod of the vessel sprung into action and detected Jason’s head.
Soon, it started the process of the body’s reconstruction by acquiring organic matter like limbs and other body parts from the corpses of Jason’s earlier victims. As the three of them made their way towards the Nano Unit, they got ambushed by Jason. The first victim was a man named Casker, whom Jason killed by literally punching a hole into the stomach.
As the others tried to figure out what had really happened, Jason struck again and started painting the Grendel red again. Melda was still in Pompei and learned that all vitals had gone down and no one was left alive. Like a smart girl, she didn’t feel the need to explore what had caused the death of her friends and left The Grendel on Pompei.
She sent a distress signal to SS Fun Club, and they allowed her in. Little did Melda and the others know that Jason had found his way on Pompei and was now following Melda on SS Fun Club. On his new abode, Jason’s first victims are a few technicians whom he slaughters in a fashion worse than a wolf devours a lamb.
After quite a few panels of blood and gore, the comic focuses on Melda, who was heading to a lounge. Upon entering the lounge, horror and shock consumed her as she watched Uber Jason slaughtering and severing his victims. She ran out of the place, only to find the reconstructed Jason. Melda was now sandwiched between the two Jasons, the two violent sides of the same murderous coin.
Friday the 13th: Jason vs. Jason X Issue 2
Jason and Uber Jason, aka Jason X, fight each other through several panels of the comic book pages, their machetes clash left, right, and center, but no clear winner appears to be in sight. Melda bumps into a couple and warns them about what she had just seen, but they don’t really pay any heed to her warnings and head to the couples spa.
But Jason and Uber Jason are already fighting there and end up slaying the poor rambunctious men and women in the spa. As the fight continues, the carnage becomes more exaggerated, and the nudity becomes more explicit. The scenes on the panels give us the typical feel of a Friday the 13th film, filled with extreme levels of gore and nudity.
Meanwhile, Melda finds her way to the captain of SS Fun Club, but the guy ends up taking a machete right through his eye socket and dies. Melda and a synthetic named Alice then go to the cockpit of the spaceship, where Melda manages to land the spacecraft, well, one can not really call it a landing, but they managed to get out of SS Fun Club nonetheless.
In the background, the spacecraft was ablaze, but Jason and Uber Jason were still fighting each other, swinging their machetes, throwing punches, and doing the regular things one should expect from Jason Voorhees. In the end, Uber Jason managed to decapitate Jason, after which the cyborg serial killer extracted Jason’s brain and merged it with his own.
Throughout the comic, Jason and Uber Jason were plagued with visions of their mother, Pamela Voorhees. Now, according to the comics, they were fighting because both of them were created from the same brain and wanted to be whole again. So, with Jason X killing Jason and acquiring his brain, it became clear that he had succeeded in his quest.
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