Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors | |
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Publication information | |
Publisher | DC Comics Dynamite Entertainment |
Schedule | Monthly |
Format | Limited series |
Genre | |
Publication date | August – December 2009 |
No. of issues | 6 |
Main character(s) | Freddy Krueger Jason Voorhees Ash Williams Maggie Burroughs Neil Gordon Stephanie Kimble Steven Freeman Alice Johnson Jacob Johnson Rennie Wickham Tina Shepard Tommy Jarvis Nancy Thompson |
Creative team | |
Created by | Wes Craven Victor Miller Ron Kurz Sean S. Cunningham Tom Savini Sam Raimi |
Written by | Jeff Katz James Kuhoric |
Artist(s) | Jason Craig |
Letterer(s) | Wes Abbott |
Colorist(s) | Gabe Eltaeb |
Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash: The Nightmare Warriors is a six-issue limited series comic book written by Jeff Katz and James Kuhoric, with drawings by Jason Craig. The series was published by Dynamite Entertainment and DC Comics, with imprint by Wildstorm, beginning in August 2009 and concluding in December 2009. The Nightmare Warriors is a sequel to Freddy vs. Jason vs. Ash, which was published in 2007 and was itself a sequel to the 2003 film Freddy vs. Jason. The series is a crossover between the A Nightmare on Elm Street, Friday the 13th, and Evil Dead horror film franchises.
The Nightmare Warriors sees Freddy Krueger and Jason Voorhees resurrected by the United States government, who wish to exploit their supernatural powers; however, the government is unable to control them, and the killers attempt to take over the world using the Necronomicon Ex-Mortis. Meanwhile, Ash Williams joins forces with the Nightmare Warriors, a support group for people who have survived encounters with Freddy and/or Jason, which consists of numerous established characters from the A Nightmare on Elm Street and Friday the 13th franchises, to defeat Freddy and Jason for good.
Katz and Kuhoric wrote the sequel as an epic "fanboy story", and modeled the concept after the Crisis events from DC Comics. The titular Nightmare Warriors were designed as a "Justice League"-style superhero team.[1][2] The writers attempted to take the three separate mythologies and combine them into one coherent continuity.[2]