Your Unlucky Day

Justin Gray, Jimmy Palmiotti and Adam Archer, Friday 13th: vol.1, 2007
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.