🔪 🔪 🔪 slash slash slash: It’s Friday the 13th, and Jim Horwitz has re-run a Watson strip from 9/13/19 that plays with Friday the 13th‘s slasher Jason in a hockey mask:
Fudgey the little boy and his big dog Watson; here, Watson’s in a hockey mask, which Fudgey is sure none of the other kids will recognize as an allusion to the slasher Jason in all those old movies (12 of them, the last released in 2009)
Friday the 13th. From my 10/13/17 posting “Swords up on Friday the 13th”:
From Wikipedia:
Friday the 13th is an American horror franchise that comprises twelve slasher films, a television show, novels, comic books, video games, and tie‑in merchandise, as of 2017. The franchise mainly focuses on the fictional character Jason Voorhees, who drowned as a boy at Camp Crystal Lake due to the negligence of the camp staff. Decades later, the lake is rumored to be “cursed” and is the setting for a series of mass murders. Jason is featured in all of the films, as either the killer or the motivation for the killings.
… The first film [1980] was created to cash in on the success of Halloween (1978)
Jason uses a hockey mask to hide his face
And that mask became a highly recognizable item of popular culture. But maybe its iconic status had dissipated between the last movie in 2009 and Horwitz’s cartoon in 2019.
Holiday bonus: A Nightmare on Elm Street. My 2/24/22 posting “Our frugal cartoonists: Shreddy Cougar”, whose title is a play on Freddy Krueger, the name of the central character in Wes Craven’s A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) and succeeding films: the spirit of a serial killer who uses a gloved hand with razors to kill his victims in their dreams, causing their deaths in the real world as well.
Slash slash slash.
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