*NEEDS PICS* Friday the 13th: The Series S1E10

 Previously on Friday the 13th: The Series

Now: Episode 10 "Tales of the Undead"

Cursed Object of the Week: Comic Book

In a comic store is a random kid with slick backed hair and a green jacket who decides to steal a comic and another one in his hand but he stares at a particular one called Tales of the Undead and it is behind a case. Ooh! He walks up to the counter to ask the cashier about it. It's a rarity all right. It's a limited edition signed by the creator himself, Jay Star. The kid is totally fanboying over it but the cashier breaks his wittle heart by saying how priceless it is. So priceless that it isn't even for sale to the average Joe. It is aimed to be sold at auction in ballpark of $25,000! In hopes of cheering him up, he slides the kid a form he can fill out in a contest to win free comics for a year.

Right after he leaves, Ryan walks in. We all know by now how much of a comic obsessed dude he is. Afterall, we must not forget how he literally traded his only copy of Green Lantern #3 to develop pictures ASAFP back in Episode 8. So yeah it is comfortable to say he is a regular and they both have chit chat. He takes out from under the table Ryan's weekly comic picks.

Amongst them? Tales of the Undead. 

He then takes Ryan over to the cased Tales from the Undead and naturally Ryan just drools all over it and wants to buy it right meow! So he says he just going to open up his vault and get his moneys out. 

However, right when their backs are turns, the crazed fan boy attempts to break in the case but gets quickly caught. He then goes on a roid rage and smashes the glass the retrieve the comic himself. Then something weird happens.

There is a comic transition during these scenes while he is still holding this precious comic and just like that a robot from the comic materializes before the cashier and keels him! Noooo. The fan boy is the one who turned into the robot and so he goes stomping out. Ryan, hearing the commotion comes back in the store but the robot monster backhands him into the wall and strolls on out.

The next day, Ryan is back at Curious Goods since him and Micki are stuck running the shop as Jack is mentioned to be out of town. Ryan is inspecting a piece of metal that came from the robot with a magnifying glass. This dummy throws the metal piece in frustration but with his injured arm and winces in pain.

Micki, being the skeptic she is, thinks it was just someone cosplaying as the robot. She didn't quite say the word "cosplay" as this term quietly originated in 1984 in Japan and it took a bit longer for the rest of the world to adopt it in their vocabulary.

But I digress.

Ryan is convinced it was the real deal and he has proof! In the comic itself that was exactly what happened in its plot. A kid gets a hold of a comic book and once touched, the comic absorbs into the kid which turn into the robot. META as fuck. Also a term that wasn't used yet until the 90s. A case of life imitating art.

It's just the type of thing that might be in the Manifest so Micki strolls on over to scan the pages but Ryan is skeptical as he would've known is a comic is listed in there. Micki points out that their Uncle Lewis was probably boomer as fuck so he probably would've labeled it as something else. A-ha! She found something!

Listed under "magazine"

Now it is Ryan's turn to be skeptical because he remembers that the cashier bought it from an estate sale so that means that the original buyer in the Manifest has got to be dead in order for that to happen. Plus, he saw the kid who stole it anyway. Micki reads the buyer's name anyway and it's Jacob Star.

That totally rings a bell. Jacob Staretsky. Jay Star.

Ryan gives her a quick run down on the history of Mr. Jay Star. He changed his name before starting on making the comics back in 1947 into what they know of today. And he did it all single handedly. But there is just no way he is involved in this current incident as he disappeared after a few years of producing the comics. Supposedly died in poverty too.

But wait, there is a name and address and since this is relatively recent, he's gotta be alive still. Well, that's what Micki says. Ryan decides he wants to check it out for himself and so off her goes.

Literally running up those stairs he rings the doorbell but a woman is immediately trying to shoo him away accusing him of being a reporter for the 40th Anniversary. Ryan claims to just be a fan boy. The woman tries to shut the door on him when an unseen male voice is asking WTF is going on over there. Ryan says the magic words and says his real birth name. This seems to satisfy him so he allows him inside the house.

He meets up with Jay who is only a few feet away. He says that lady is Mrs.Forbes and not to pay attention to her brash demeanor and is very protective over him. They both walk to cozy up under the warm fire. Jay Star says a lot of self deprecating comments but Ryan is like Noooooo Mister! You still cool. However Jay Star is pretty grumpy about himself.

However, he is happy to sign one of Ryan's Undead comics but then asks why Ryan is REALLY here.

Ryan walks towards a table and notices the prestigeous Comic Award for Excellence shaped like a bolt. Begrudgingly Jay Star says that why yes it is. He got that award when he wrote the very first issue for Tales of the Undead, the first appearing of Feris the Invincable. This was supposed to be his claim to fame until Mrs. Forbes pipes up and says a slimey comic book publisher basically scammed him and left him to rot...metaphorically anyway. And gives the "Why I oughta..."

Jay tells her STFU and get some tea.

He still expresses his frustration because she was right, though. The comic publisher manipulated and stole all his life's work. Except for a couple of rarities though but he had to end up selling anyway to make ends meet. But there is some more rarities; unpublished material that he still has for a rainy day. Ryan assumes that these were pretty wild to have to be cut from the final product.

This comment seems to spark Jay a bit and he gets out of his chair and says that Feris is nothing compared to all the shit that he has seen. 

Ryan says "Well can you stand more wild shit? Someone is using your comics to turn Feris into real life and be actin' a fool out there. Even killed a guy."

This news disheartens him as he personally knew the slain comic book cashier so this time: it's personal! He immediately believes him of course and then goes cackling while he walks to his fireplace.

Not too longer later, Ryan exits the house.

Jay Star, on the other hand, is ready to avenge his death and asks Mrs. Forbes to get his coat. He pops up at the comic store where he sees a woman packing up everything. and tells Jay, not knowing who he is, that the business is closed. As she is walking away with a box of comics in tow, Jay peeks at the contest box and rummages through them until he spots a likely candidate who would be crazed enough to be behind this madness. That was hella quick.

Murder fan boy over here is seen at his apartment literally on the phone with someone in an attempt to sell this hot ass piece of comic but unbeknownst to him, he has a visitor. The person on the other line likely doesn't believe he could have such a treasured piece of material and ends up hanging up on him. 

Once he makes his presence known, Jay Star decides to introduce himself and this kid gets all star struck when he realizes he's the real deal. Jay cuts to the chase that he has something he shouldn't have and he should give it back to him at this instant. The kid has the audacity to refuse. 

In fact, this mothafucka tries to use this exact comic to try to kill him and immediately transforms into the aforementioned robot. As he stomps towards Jay, he immediately whips out his Comic Award (conveniently pointy) and with a single stab, fan boy dedz.

 Back at Curiour Goods, Ryan expresses a little bit of sorrow as he felt a bit embarrassed when Jay initially laughed at him. Out of all people, Ryan couldn't detect that sarcasm but maybe it was for his own good. He literally believes Jay did not believe him at all whatsoever but yeah. Micki tries to console him, in her own way anyway. Then again, she has a hard time seeing what other people see to find comic books so amusing. Ryan makes a great point to say that while it was like an escape from reality and it's fun to see yourself as the hero in the comics.

Micki is like "Okay." And she goes back to reading the comic to give it a second chance. The next line she reads really tickles her so she share the similarities of the comic from the first altercation that started this whole thing.

After looking at the newspaper. Bingo. He spots the guy who stole the comic.

Both of them reach his apartment but can't find any trace of him. Not even his body is there. Micki walks over to the deceased guy's desk and observes that a Carmine DeMario's name is written on a notebook. Strong lead so away they go to track his ass down.

Once reaching his office, Carmine is just as skeevy as you would think. Actually, he's not exactly the bad buy in Jay Star's story, per se but his father was the one that was sold the rights to Jay Star's work. Taking over the family business, it seems like the apple doesn't fall too far from the tree. He claims that Jay Star was actually paid a lot for his work but the reason why? He literally tried to kill off his main character, Ferris!

He doesn't know where this lost media and he doesn't care either. 

After the duo leave, in walks in Jay and he has a bone to pick with this fool. He visits the same guy as he is doing his comic drawings, he hears a rapping. Rapping at his chamber door. He takes a long stroll around but when he circles back to his desk is none other than Jay Star sitting in his desk like a corny comic villain. LOL GET IT!?

Carmine instantly remembers Jay and tries to make nice. Jay ain't having any of that shit. He gets even more triggered when he sees a picture hanging behind that he swears was in his basement that HE STOLE. Carmine tries to deescalate by just simply removing it from the stand and handing it to him.

NEIN!

Jay slams it on the ground and the glass shatters. In fact, he wants to show him a new trick and then proceeds to whip out his comic and then all hell breaks loose. Now that he is a robot, he takes a swing at him but Carmine is too ninja for him and goes running to trigger the alarm sound while he tries to escape through an elevator adjacent. But nope! Jaybot catches up to him and slaughters him.

Must've been fresh because Ryan and Micki are rushing to the elevator when they hear the commotion. As it descends, they spot Carmine's corpse and with Jaybot approaching, they both run and hide.

With the alarm triggered, cops are alerted and are on the scene in no time. Ryan and Micki manages to escape and witness the shootout between the police and Jaybot. It looks like he is shotdown but Ryan asserts that Feris is invincable but there's not much they can do at this point so they leave before the police can spot them.

Circling back to Curious Goods, they both try to come up with a solution to get that comic back. Not sure if they know quite yet if it's Jay or not. But then, Ryan comes up with an idea.

They both land at the step of Jay Star's house in the middle of the night where Mrs. Forbes gives him the classic rosy greeting. It's hella late so she refuses to let him see Jay as he is sleeping. Jay is actually standing behind her though. He tells him to go away. He be grumping soooo much today, yo.

Ryan yells out that he saw Ferris again, not knowing that he was behind it. To his surprise, Mrs. Forbes lets him in then excuses herself. By that, I mean Jay told her to. 

Despite him trying to convince Jay that Ferris is striking again, Jay is totally gaslight the shit out of him. They have a heated argument but then Jay is perked up when he realizes that Ryan was a witness to the police shootout and he gets extra defensive. 

While they are talking, Mrs. Forbes is slowing walking down the stairs to eavesdrop on their conversation. 

Ryan tries to implore Jay to believe in this outlandish story but Jay continues with the gaslighting saying there's no use trying to convince him. On top of that, he threw away the comic where he killed off Ferris. Frustrated and realizing he is getting nowhere to anything, Ryan accepts defeat and leaves his house. 

After they leave, Jay is seen making a mess of himself assuming he is looking for the comic Ryan was referring to. Mrs. Forbes appears behind him and confesses that she was the one who sold the secret issue in question. NANI?!? The grand reveal that she just never gave a fuuuuuck. That includes love. Jay is big mad. She is like k bye.

Jay does what he does best and uses the comic to transform into Jaybot then keels Mrs. Forbes.  What a twist. I literally thought that she was going to be the REAL baddie behind it all. Still a baddie though.

Micki and Ryan arrive at the auction house to inquire about it's whereabouts. To their delight, there is confirmation that the issue is due to be delivered there rather soon. However, he is unable to tell them the identity of the owner due to confidentiality. Then his fuck ass puts the clipboard right in front of him and walks away. But hey, he's a busy man. They are able to quickly find the find and Ryan being such a bad boi walks over to the rollerdex to find the name along with his information and they happily skip away at this breakthrough.

Ted Haily is the name of the owner. After jumping back in the car, they reach the address on file but before they can step back out, Micki gets the heebie jeebies. She spots a car nearby that doesn't pass her vibe check  so they scope it out. 

They're too late. Upon closer inspection they spot Ted himself and he dedz as well. It is strewn with loose comic book drawings but it doesn't seem to be the exact comic in question they were looking for. Ryan sees a shard on the ground. A clue! A clue!

Realizing that Jay Star is the real villain, they both reach his house once again. Peering through a window they see Jay yeeting the loose comic strips in the fireplace with his boomer ass placing one paper at a time in there. Lolz.

Knowing they have to act fast, Micki bangs on the front door to tell him he has something to "show" him. That definitely piques his interest. While she is trying to distract Jay, Ryan being a fuck ass makes a lot of noise as he breaks a window. This old dude's hearing is still strong because he damn well heard it and marches right up to him. Jay finally has the bright idea of just taking the entire glob of papers and pours it in the fire.

Har Har.

Too late. He brags that this is his revenge for those slimy comic book publisher people's who stole from him and now NOBODY can have it! 

Micki is at the table where she picks up the cursed comic book and this spry old man takes a crow bar and swings it at her. She falls to the ground and of course drops the comic. Jay picks it up to transform into Jaybot. Bruh. 

Ryan realizes he must do what he has to do save his cousin, Micki. That and Ryan sees one of the lost pages reveals just how Ferris is killed. Ryan runs to the pointy Award thing still sitting at the table and with a single stab, he kills him.

"Tell me, boy. How does it feel to be a hero?" And he croaks for good. 

After putting the comic in the vault. Micki tries to cheer him up since you know, Ryan had to kill the very man he admired. She even has the audacity to bring back the pointy Award thingy which is a bit triggering to him so what the hell Micki!? Anyway, they both share a funny moment together and that's that. She does seem to come around a little bit more about the appeal of comics too. OMG this feels so weird without having Jack in this episode I'm big sad.

That concludes this episode.

Episode 11 is next.

Special Guest Star: Ray Walston as Jay Star