Jason Aaron (Author of Star Wars, Vol. 1)

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Jason Aaron

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in Jasper, Alabama, The United States

January 28, 1973

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Jason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.

Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.

In 2006, Jason Aaron grew up in a small town in Alabama. His cousin, Gustav Hasford, who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers, on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket was based, was a large influence on Aaron. Aaron decided he wanted to write comics as a child, and though his father was skeptical when Aaron informed him of this aspiration, his mother took Aaron to drug stores, where he would purchase books from spinner racks, some of which he still owns today.

Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine back-up story script. The story, which was published in Wolverine #175 (June 2002), gave him the opportunity to pitch subsequent ideas to editors.

In 2006, Aaron made a blind submission to DC/Vertigo, who published his first major work, the Vietnam War story The Other Side which was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and which Aaron regards as the "second time" he broke into the industry.

Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to the series Scalped, a creator-owned series set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation and published by DC/Vertigo.

In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw: Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions. Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso, who was impressed by The Other Side and Scalped, hired Aaron to write issues of Wolverine, Black Panther and eventually, an extended run on Ghost Rider that began in April 2008. His continued work on Black Panther also included a tie-in to the company-wide crossover storyline along with a "Secret Invasion" with David Lapham in 2009.

In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped. Later that July, he wrote the Penguin issue of The Joker's Asylum.

After a 4-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to the character with the ongoing series Wolverine: Weapon X, launched to coincide with the feature film X-Men Origins: Wolverine. Aaron commented, "With Wolverine: Weapon X we'll be trying to mix things up like that from arc to arc, so the first arc is a typical sort of black ops story but the second arc will jump right into the middle of a completely different genre," In 2010, the series was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine. He followed this with his current run on Thor: God of Thunder. ...more

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My NYCC Schedule

I'll be doing several signings and panels at NYCC this weekend. Look for me here:

Thursday 10/4: 12:15pm Making Comics the Marvel Way Panel Room 1A245pm-6pm Marvel Booth Signing #1354
Friday 10/5: 2:45pm Image Comics: We Believe in Vision Room 1A24
Saturday 10/6: 11:45am SYFY WIRE interview live stage2:40pm Marvel live stream interview at Marvel Booth #13543pm Marvel booth Sig Read more of this blog post »

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Jason Aaron鈥檚 books

Average rating: 3.98 · 345,542 ratings · 29,427 reviews · 2,331 distinct works 鈥� Similar authors

	Star Wars, Vol. 1: Skywalker Strikes 4.14 avg rating — 13,997 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thor, Vol. 1: The Goddess of Thunder by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman (Artist) 4.09 avg rating — 13,353 ratings — published 2015 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thor: God of Thunder, Vol. 1: The God Butcher 4.25 avg rating — 10,965 ratings — published 2012 — 24 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Scalped: Indian Country (Scalped, #1) by Jason Aaron (Writer), R.M. Gu茅ra (Illustrator), Lee Loughridge (Colorist) 4.02 avg rating — 7,816 ratings — published 2007 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Southern Bastards, Vol. 1: Here Was a Man 4.12 avg rating — 7,419 ratings — published 2014 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars, Vol. 2: Showdown on the Smuggler's Moon 4.12 avg rating — 6,887 ratings — published 2016 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thor: God of Thunder, Vol. 2: Godbomb by Jason Aaron, Esad Ribi膰 (Illustrator), Jackson Guice (Illustrator) 4.28 avg rating — 6,436 ratings — published 2013 — 20 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Star Wars: Vader Down by Jason Aaron, Kieron Gillen, Mike Deodato (Illustrations) 4.14 avg rating — 6,402 ratings — published 2016 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mighty Thor, Vol. 1: Thunder in Her Veins by Jason Aaron, Russell Dauterman (Artist) 4.11 avg rating — 5,513 ratings — published 2016 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thor, Vol. 2: Who Holds the Hammer? by Jason Aaron (Writer), Russell Dauterman (Illustrator), C.M. Punk, Jorge Molina (Illustrator), N.D. Stevenson, Rob Guillory (Illustrator), Marguerite Sauvage (Illustrator), Timothy Truman 3.96 avg rating — 5,717 ratings — published 2015 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Series by Jason Aaron

Thor by Jason Aaron (15 books)
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Jason Aaron,

Russell Dauterman (Artist)

4.05 avg rating — 71,452 ratings

Star Wars (2015) (15 books)
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Jason Aaron (Writer),

Salvador Larroca (Illustrator)

3.94 avg rating — 55,966 ratings

Thor (2014) (Single Issues) (9 books)
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Jason Aaron,

Russell Dauterman (Artist)

4.10 avg rating — 29,288 ratings

Southern Bastards (4 books)
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Jason Aaron (Story),

Jason Latour (Art),

Chris Brunner (Contributor)

4.15 avg rating — 17,019 ratings

Avengers (2018) (Collected Editions) (12 books)
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Jason Aaron,

Ed McGuinness (Artist)

3.42 avg rating — 9,032 ratings

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Quotes by Jason Aaron (?)

“Spider-Man: The Phoenix Force is a crazy powerful cosmic firebird entity that for some reason seems to be attracted to earthbound redheads (I can relate).”
― Jason Aaron, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine

tags: redheads

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“Bobby: So assuming I survive the next 24 hours, where do you want to go on our first date?
Kitty: Some place that doesn't allow children.
Bobby: The strip club it is.”
― Jason Aaron, Wolverine and the X-Men, Vol. 4

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“Sir, we're now introducing the love interest for Spider-Man."
"Yes, just make sure it's organic. That it doesn't feel like it comes out of nowhere."
"We had her fall on him, Sir."
"Classy. I love it.”
― Jason Aaron, Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine

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Polls

Which of these books would you like to be our next Group Read Discussion (December 2016)?

The winning pick will be our official Group Book Discussion for the month. The 2nd place finisher will be the optional discussion.

Okay good luck to your choice.

Scalped, Vol. 1: Indian Country by Jason Aaron

15 votes, 21.7%

We Stand On Guard by Brian K. Vaughan

12 votes, 17.4%

The Multiversity by Grant Morrison

11 votes, 15.9%

Wayward, Volume One: String Theory by Jim Zub

6 votes, 8.7%

X-Statix: Omnibus by Peter Milligan

6 votes, 8.7%

The Sheriff of Babylon, Volume 1: Bang. Bang. Bang. by Tom King

5 votes, 7.2%

The Underwater Welder by Jeff Lemire

4 votes, 5.8%

Mirror: The Mountain by Emma R铆os

4 votes, 5.8%

Last Look by Charles Burns

3 votes, 4.3%

Gyo by Junji Ito

3 votes, 4.3%

69 total votes

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