• Text: Jason Aaron
• Art: Adam Archer
• Publisher: Wildstorm
• Cover: Dustin Nguyen
• Publishing year: 2007
• Pages issue 1: 36
• Pages issue 2: 36

https://www.dc.com/comics/friday-the-13th-2007/friday-the-13th-how-i-spent-my-summer-vacation-2

Review:

This is a new and original story about the horrors that Jason Voorhees commits at the site of Crystal Lake. This time his eyes are set on a bunch of children who dare pester a little boy who has a bone disorder, similar to Jason’s. Jason starts his machete wielding and kills everyone at the camp, apart from Davie Falkner, the boy with whom he connects somehow. The leftover counselors take Davie with them into the woods, away from Jason. But Jason doesn’t give up easily.

While Jason is doing what he does best, we see Sheriff Tanneyhill in his cop car taking some drugs, when the call comes about trouble at Camp Piney Woods. All doped up he goes and look at what’s going on when he runs into the counselors and the kid Davie, followed by the masked killer. Tanneyhill is out of his senses and thinks all this is due to the abuse of drugs, something he knows all about too well. Before Jason can wield his machete, Tanneyhill starts shooting around but instead of killing the killer, he splatters the brains of the counselors. Jason takes Davie and leaves the site. But Tanneyhill just can’t leave it at that, simply because the kid is a witness to his stupidity.

Along his way Jason kills off an entire police corps so a bigger setup is made for finding the killer. Only Tanneyhill won’t stop until he gets to Jason and Davie, so he can kill all witnesses. The question is: who is more ruthless, the sheriff or Jason?

And Davie, well he’s not unhappy because finally for the first time he feels he belongs with someone who understands his pain and suffering.

This was not my favorite Jason Voorhees tale, not quite. But it had some fun stuff in it (the start of Jason’s rampage is brutal and he proves to be a wildcard let loose!) But I wasn’t a fan of the Tanneyhill-storyline. It was too extreme and the character just didn’t connect with me. Glad they never brought someone like him into the movies.

This two-issue comic story ànd Pamela’s Tale are both part of Wildstorm’s Friday the 13th Book Two. There are probably some other stories that belong in that Book Two, but I never got a chance to find them back when. But thanks to Readcomicsonline I will be able to read them anyway. So keep an eye on this blog for more Jason… and even some more Freddy and a little of Ash (Evil Dead)!