Friday the 13th's Jason Voorhees has faced many opponents over the years but one of the strangest adversaries the undead machete-wielding killer has ever faced was himself, literally. In the comic book sequel to 2001's Jason X, the upgraded Jason Voorhees, or "Uber Jason," continues to paint the stars red until circumstances allow for another version of Jason to be recreated from his leftover remains, an exact replica right down to the iconic hockey mask. Naturally, these two halves of the same murderous coin are drawn to each other for the ultimate battle with the same amount of gore, nudity, and nonsensical violence that fans have come to expect from the horror franchise.
In the movie Jason X, Voorhees is captured and placed in cryogenic suspension in 2008, where he is left to be uncovered in the year 2455 by a salvage crew rummaging through the remains of Earth. Rejuvenated by the technology aboard their spaceship the Grendel, Jason continues right where he left off by murdering members of the crew and their squadron of soldiers on board. Jason is finally killed during a battle with a cyborg, leaving his body horribly mangled and his head blown apart. Unfortunately, life finds a way as the nearby medical station uses advanced nanites to repair and rebuild Jason into an undead cyborg - Uber Jason. While the few remaining survivors escape, Jason is last seen burning up while attempting atmospheric entry to Earth Two, his remains landing in a lake.
In Friday the 13th: Jason X vs Jason, writer/artist Mike Wolfer disregards the ending of Jason X and follows a timeline that places Uber Jason aboard the spaceship SS Fun Club, an interstellar pleasure cruiser full of rambunctious future victims. Meanwhile, a salvage crew finds the remains of the Grendel and when they turn the power back on, the nano-regeneration unit gets to work, combining the leftover remains of Jason that somehow weren't incorporated into Uber Jason's new body, with the well-preserved remains of his other victims. The process creates an exact replica of the original Voorhees who slaughters most of the crew. The ship ends up docking with the SS Fun Club, whereupon the new Jason quickly meets his futuristic doppelganger and they immediately engage in a battle royale to see who will be the true Jason.
Unlike other horror movie crossovers, this battle between two Jasons is about as predictable as you'd expect. Jason and Uber Jason spend half of this two-part series fighting as a whole lot of people die in the process. Mike Wolfer puts about as much effort into his characters as the franchise does, drawing arrogant, occasionally half-naked people that are only there to add to the body count. The two undead behemoths continue to fight, even after the ship makes an emergency crash landing onto Earth Prime. Despite them being evenly matched in almost every way, Uber Jason wins by literally ripping the other Jason's head off.
The whole point of their battle was that both versions of Jason shared parts of the same brain, plagued by visions of their mother and fighting to be complete again. Victorious, Uber Jason removes the remainder of the other Jason's brain and joins it with his own. As a flashback of Pamela and OG Jason embracing with promises to always be there for each other, Uber Jason finds himself again on a new world, with a new lake which will hopefully bring new victims. Although the series ends in the typical open-ended cliffhanger, there's really not much else for Uber Jason to do, what worlds are left to conquer when you are now the ultimate killer? Friday the 13th:Jason vs Jason X is a fun read but not exactly one the world was dying to have.