The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (comics)
I worked from the original script by David Schow and the heavily edited theatrical release of director Jeff Burr, but had more or less free rein to write the story the way it should have been told.
[citation needed] In 1995, Topps Comics released the three-issue miniseries Jason vs. Leatherface, a non-canonical crossover between the Friday the 13th and Texas Chainsaw Massacre franchises, written by Nancy A. Collins with art by Jeff Butler.
[citation needed] The series premise involves accidentally placing Jason Voorhees, the main antagonist of Friday the 13th, on a train headed for a dumping ground in Mexico when Crystal Lake is drained of radioactive waste by a company.
Running amok on the train, Jason kills its crew and causes the vehicle to crash in Texas, where he meets and befriends Leatherface and his inbred family (consisting of Cook, Hitchhiker, Grandpa and several other original relatives, all of them dead).
[5] The final release by Avatar Press, the one-shot The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Fearbook, had text written by Antony Johnston with art by Daniel HDR and Mauricio Dias.
[6] After Avatar lost the rights to Texas Chainsaw Massacre and to New Line Cinema's other horror properties, Wildstorm started an ongoing series written by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning with art by Wesley Craig, under the direction of editor Ben Abernathy.
[citation needed] This series, titled The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, ran from January to June 2007 for six issues until Wildstorm canceled its ongoing New Line horror comics in favor of publishing mini-series and specials based on the movie franchises.
[citation needed] Two months after the cancellation Wildstorm released The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Cut!, a one-issue special written by Will Pfeifer with art by Stefano Raffaele.
[8][9] In September 2007 Leatherface appeared alongside Freddy Krueger in the first issue of New Line Cinema's Tales of Horror in a story entitled "The Texas Chainsaw Salesman", written by Christos Gage and Peter Milligan.
[10] In late 2008, Wildstorm started a three-issue miniseries, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre: Raising Cain, written by Bruce Jones with art by Chris Gugliotti.
