Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The comic

Okay, so I just read this at Bloody-Disgusting (I know, I know, believe me, I looked to see if it had been posted on Creature Corner so I could link that instead). Supposedly that FvJvA treatment from a few years ago is still as dead as dead can be, not for New Line's lack of trying. Bruce Campbell was on board (the man likes to work) but Raimi was reluctant, in addition to some other rights issues (not to mention the fact that Robert Englund, while still keen on doing something else with Freddy, voiced some concerns about still having to do the make up and stunt work as he gets older). Now the story is being dusted off and getting adapted as a comic book.

I haven't been too keen on the horror titles based on all these slasher properties, but I still might have to check this out to see the movie that almost was.

http://www.bloody-disgusting.com/news/9635

Yeah, I actually put all three of these characters in the same boat. As the franchises wore on, they became more and more the focal points. Ash was always the "hero" of the Evil Dead films, but he was basically a male "Final Girl" in the first one and given the spotlight in Evil Dead 2. People dug it and then finally became this self-aware comic book character in Army of Darkness. How else does somebody go from getting defeated by bookshelf after bookshelf to leading an army, with only one film in between?

Same with Freddy, going from last-billed "Fred Krueger" in NOES to having toys and Englund's name before the credits in The Dream Master. And yeah, name one character you remember other than Jason's mother and Tommy Jarvis from the Friday movies. They're all about him now, and he went from super-serious in part 2 to basically anti-hero in F v J.

Shit, what was my point?

No way this movie would have been good, but the treatment was sublimely ridiculous, and it'd be a blast to see Freddy get in a pun-off with Ash.

I was just giving the character's portrayal in the first film a little good-natured ribbing. And something tells me that in the late 70's they hadn't sat down and decided to send Ash on a time-traveling adventure.

Personally, I like Army of Darkness for what it is. It's got a very memorable, iconic main character and it entertains me. Having said that, does it make me a bad person that I like Evil Dead II the least? There's a lot of great gags in that movie, but I just think the original is so inspiring in its disgusting, "I could make that!" sort of way.

And FvJ, all things considered, is one of the better entries of either franchise. I loved that Friday the 13th feature Devin did a few months back, but I can't get behind the idea that most of these movies are any more than exact copies of each other. For the first 5 movies in the series, we got the same plot with new dead kids and the same POV shots of hands holding sharp things. Don't you think that once we know what the killer looks like from the previous movie, we can go ahead and stop pretending it might be somebody else?

I like Jason as a monster, but on his own his movies don't have much substance to them (and I say that fully aware of how stupid it is for me to ask for substance from these movies). At least the Nightmare series has been more like a low-rent Alien franchise, with familiar characters and situations being handled differently from movie to movie. For Freddy it may have been a step down, but putting Jason in Springwood spiced things up for him.

If anything kept FvJ from greatness, it's that the kids all kinda sucked. Other than that, it was a stylish, harmless movie that delivered on the promised clash of horror titans. And everybody went. New Line brought both characters back in a big way, and somehow blew it completely.