Friday the 13th

by Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti, Adam Archer

1st volume of Wildstorm's Friday the 13th stories.

Genres: Horror, Comics, Graphic Novels, Comic Book, Fiction, Graphic Novels Comics, Horror Thriller

144 pages, Paperback

First published September 26, 2007

About the author

Justin currently writes Novels, Graphic Novels, Video Games, Screenplays.

He has held various jobs including, fossil hunting, microphotography of 20 million year old insects and plants trapped in amber, seminars and exhibitions on the cleaning, mining and identification of prehistoric insects for the American Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian. He traveled to the mountains of the Dominican Republic and mined amber.

He has also worked as a victim advocate for Victims Assistance of Westchester, a not-for-profit organization that helps victims of crime.

Reviews

[looneybooks79 · Rating 4 out of 5]

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If I say: “Jason, hockey mask, machete and Crystal Lake”, what would the first thing be that pops up in your mind? Right, Friday the 13th! Jason Voorhees must be one of the most recognisable villains in a horror movie franchise that ever existed. Funny idea if you know the history of the movies. But those movies (those who follow me know that I recently rewatched all of the movies in the franchise and saw my reviews on this blog)

Jason Voorhees was only the antagonist since Friday the 13th Part 2 and has since become a legendary serial killer with over 200 (movie) kills (so far). So it was only normal that one day someone would think: “How van we expand the world of Jason?” and made a graphic novel that did just that.

And so came to be the collection of six issues, simply called Friday the 13th.

A young woman is found naked and covered in blood on the road by an elder couple in a camper. They are just in time to save her from a dreadful death because in the woods someone or something lurks, an evil we all know… she is taken to hospital where she remains in a catatonic state while the sheriff is trying to find out what happened to her friends who were at Camp Crystal Lake, trying to clean it up to accommodate new campers and children.

And while the sheriff has a theory to what happened to her friends and the camp leaders, the true story is one that has been happening at those grounds for centuries already. Blood and killing, drownings and a legacy all trapped in a single body, that of Jason Voorhees, the boy who drowned but got to live somehow! And his blood thirst is insatiable!

In October I rewatched every Friday the 13th movie so I thought ‘Why not the comics as well’… (I only have a few of those and honestly don’t how many more there are or were as I don’t think they’ll be available anymore)

This graphic novel expands on the mythos that was already established in the movies. But apart from that, it offers the same things the movies offered: sex, drugs, carnage and silly teenagers.

I love how the comics pay tribute to the movies by mentioning the fact that possible copycats took the hockey mask and started a killing spree (this has happened in Part V, how the mother, Mrs Voorhees, killed the counsellors in retribution to the death of her son, how the lake seemed to be a way to resurrect the dead and of course, Jason who loves to kill a group one by one, how Jason could be a demon…

Just when you thought you escaped the horror of Crystal Lake, you see the shimmer of metal in the dark.

[James DeSantis · Rating 2 out of 5]

So my wife and I are doing our Halloween marathon before, well, Halloween. And we're having a blast going through all the good old horror movies. Friday the 13th is coming up so I decided to check out the few horror comics based off the movies I could find.

Jason is on the hunt again. After a group of dumbass teenagers go into the woods to, you guessed it, have sex and smoke weed, Jason is ready to slaughter. He makes his way through each character by slashing and dashing, leaving very little in his wake. The main girl actually has some decent survival skills and does plan to survive this as any main character who's a girl who's naked more often than not would do in a horror situation.

Good: The kills. That's really it. Some of super brutal and fucked up. Jason chops arms off, legs off, cuts heads in half, and more. They're brutal and really what you came for. Oh and boobs, lots and lots of boobs and some butt.

Bad: The dialogue is pretty awful, the story is run of the mil shit, and of course the ending makes no goddamn sense but they never do.

Overall this is worth reading only if you're a die-hard Jason fan (Like myself) you'll have fun with the kills. The rest? Not so much. A 2 out of 5.

[Shaun Stanley · Rating 2 out of 5]

Friday the 13th Vol. 1 collects issues 1-6 of the Wildstorm series written byJustin Gray & Jimmy Palmiotto with art by Adam Archer.

A group of teenagers hired to fix up Camp Crystal Lake are attacked by Jason.

A pretty standard plot but the comic tried to mix up the mythos by adding in ghosts of children killed at the camp over the years. It also features some of the most unlikeable cast of characters in comic history. Seriously, there were no redeemable factors for any of the characters expect the main protagonist, and she was still just barely likable. This book was written in the late 2000s and still heavily featured characters verbally abusing others using "fag" and "retard" which was jarring. Ultimately, the comic doesn't offer anything really new to the franchise.

[Tommy · Rating 4 out of 5]

An original Friday the 13th comic book tale - well, as original as "Jason Voorhees stalks and slashes people at Camp Crystal Lake" can be, I suppose. It's a surprisingly fun read if you're a fan of the series like myself because the six issue length gives the story just enough time to breathe and develop without overstaying its welcome. The book also introduces a new wrinkle to Camp Crystal Lake's mythology that's actually pretty interesting! And the depiction of Jason is perfect; you see just enough of him to keep the story suspenseful and to make sure that each of his appearances deliver. The book has some problems - it's aged pretty badly with regards to political correctness, for sure, and the artwork is middling whenever Jason isn't on screen - but as a story alone it really surpassed my (admittedly low) expectations. High art this ain't, but Jason fans will dig it.

[Samantha Osborne · Rating 5 out of 5]

A very weird story about camp crystal lake and Jason Voorhees

[Asif Raihan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This review contains spoilers. Please read it at your own risk. It is a graphic adaptation describing the rampage of Jason Voorhees. Spoiler alert! None survives the mayhem. I thought Sally could be the one to continue carrying the violent accounts of the night when every one of her friends at Camp Crystal Lake falls down one by one, mostly by decapitation and arrows through the head. The first time Sally survives, she is under suspicion by the local police for being responsible for the massacre. In the end, when all doubts clear out, she again finds herself under the clutches of Jason and the story continues from six months after that.

[Honey Rose007 · Rating 4 out of 5]

I don’t know if I want to read the character stuff, since I never found them that intriguing in the movies and there is more of it, and don’t want to read to much cause my eyes get entertwined or connected cause of it, so I just skimmed through the visuals saved some. So I can use it as wallpaper; the visuals are great, like the rated r of it all, but don’t care about character arch’s or story. But still a 4/5 for visuals only story didn’t bother reading it

[Kaya Smith · Rating 4 out of 5]

does a great job at making you route for jason, the way the write teenagers in this comic is realistic but you also just hate them with a passion, it also gives jason some really cool lore as well as the whole of camp crystal lake

it’s hella gorey which I had to stomach but of course that’s expected, i’m also very glad to be getting into my horror mood for halloween, a nice introduction to my binge

[Playstail · Rating 1 out of 5]

As a big fan of the movies, I'm kinda ashamed for reading this as it just felt like the writer had no clue how to make an interesting slasher, which the movies never feel like (aside from Jason Goes to Hell).

[P.S. Winn · Rating 4 out of 5]

Camp Crystal Lake seems like the perfect place for fun, but of course there has to be a downside when people get together for fun and games, this time Jason is going to spoil the good times.

[Ch1m3r4 · Rating 5 out of 5]

Aww the little scrunchie, lil Jason, such a cutie~

[Mary Lawrence · Rating 4 out of 5]

high 3.5 star rating. I love the film series so I decide to go thru some of the other material.

[Talha Aftab · Rating 5 out of 5]

I wish i could get more of jason collection

[Aaron · Rating 1 out of 5]

Well, I don't know what I was expecting this to be. I guess the writing team of Justin Gray and Jimmy Palmiotti have turned out some decent stuff in the past, so I thought this might have a little more to it. Some oomph or something to set it apart from being just an incredibly standard, empty, rote entry in the Friday the 13th series. The whole time I was reading it I kept expecting some form of deconstruction, or at least just a twist or something to make it worth my time. But, sadly, here I sit writing a review for what would be a bad movie even for Friday the 13th, only now it's a comic book! Great!

The most mind boggling thing is that, the way that this is written, it FEELS like something different simply must happen. It is so incredibly sexist and homophobic, featuring a cast full of agro dudes who just yell at and start fights with each other for no discernible reason, that I was like "Okay, at some point this HAS to redeem itself." It doesn't! It's just a comic where a bunch of people get stabbed.

So, there really isn't much else to say. The art isn't anything special, the story is barely a story. Also, this didn't even come out around a Friday the 13th movie, so the reason for this existing is dubious at best. Feels like some kind of weird failed experiment or something. Don't bother.

[Ollie · Rating 2 out of 5]

I genuinely wanted to like this graphic novel. I wanted to come away from it thinking it had gone beyond the films and made something unique out of Jason Voorhees' story. And in a way it does, with plenty of exposed breasts and nipples (in a rate the films never managed) and non-stop homophobic language. It also lets you know from the start who survives Crystal Lake Camp, working the story into the survivor's memories. But a combination of highly unlikeable characters, a first act which suddenly gives way to the final act, and some cringe-worthy backstory involving 19th century colonists makes for an unsatisfying read. Plenty of interesting angles to the story, which could have been developed into a unique type of sci-fi/horror story, get dropped without any explanation. I can't imagine anyone enjoying this unless they get a hard on from toon nudity or disembowelments.

[Harriet · Rating 2 out of 5]

Palmiotti and Gray have put out some comics I've really enjoyed in the past and I love the original Friday the 13th, but this was disappointing for me. I do think that if you enjoy the more exploitative and oversexed sequels in the Friday series you'll probably enjoy this, because it successfully hit every point - bare boobs, booze, and unlikeable characters we wait to see killed brutally. The story is standard sequel fare, and expands on the crazy Camp Crystal Lake lore. The art is average - nice backgrounds, a very decent Jason, and laughable anatomy. I guess it did what it set out to do. I just didn't like it.

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Decent creepy read that doesn't try to be more than a good horror movie in comic book form.
A group of annoying 20-somethings get a job of cleaning up Crystal Lake camp in the off season.

Of course, Jason shows up and starts killing them off.

Cast is okay, but nearly all of them never develop farther than being types and only mildly likable/interesting.
A great creepy, suspenseful vibe makes this an entertaining, creepy read.

Falls apart at the end, which hurts it, as the build up good.
Still,better than 90% of the Jason movies.

[Zoe Blinko · Rating 4 out of 5]

I had a hard time getting my head around what the book truly meant by 'adding more to the Jason Voorhees story'. This actually only is quite a minor plot in the story. There were other mentionable things that I had to look at twice to really understand, but nevertheless, the graphic novel does really well for itself.

I really enjoyed it. It was classic Jason Voorhees, with homages to some great death deviations and the stereotypical teenagers, with some I could not help but laugh at for abit during their idle conversations.

For the horror, Voorhees and graphic novel fans.

[Noah Soudrette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Wow, I wasn't expecting much from this comic but it was pretty good. The teens were what you'd expect. Jason kicks ass as usual and the gore is outrageous. The attempts to expand the mythology are minor and uninteresting, but not obtrusive. Overall, a nicely enjoyable hack fest. Plus, there's a cool sketch of hillbilly Jason in the back! Yeah!

[Krystl Louwagie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Um, this really doesn't actually deserve 4 stars, but I found it pretty highly entertaining. I could've done with less appearances of ladies boobs, but, that's one of those things I can overlook. I did appreciate that this was an all new story instead of just retelling another Jason story.

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[Braxton · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was a really cool mini-series that did a great job capturing the feel of the movies. A must read for fans of the movies.

[Luke Fleming]

great movie\

[J. Christopher · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun read that works great alongside the movies. The art fits well and is superbly done. See also Spooks, Ratchet and Clank for more if the talented Archer's work.

[Jean · Rating 4 out of 5]

This comic was amazing, it should be adapted into a full long feature film.

[Janine]

RAND Bingo 2017 - RGB Challenge #3 - 2nd Person Perspective

I read this and The Dark Knight Returns (Volumes 1-4, 206 pages) for this challenge.

[Sydney]

scary