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23-534: Jason Aaron (born January 28, 1973) is an American comic book writer , known for his creator-owned series Scalped and Southern Bastards , as well as his work on Marvel series Ghost Rider , Wolverine , PunisherMAX , Thor , and The Avengers . In 2019 he wrote the eponymous central miniseries of the Marvel company-wide crossover storyline " The War of the Realms ". The film Thor: Love and Thunder

46-519: A Bachelor of Arts in English. Aaron's career in comics began in 2001 when he won a Marvel Comics talent search contest with an eight-page Wolverine 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 Comics 's imprint Vertigo , which became his first major work,

69-453: A plot script the artist works from a story synopsis from the writer (or plotter ), rather than a full script. The artist creates page-by-page plot details on their own, after which the work is returned to the writer for the insertion of dialogue. Due to its widespread use at Marvel Comics beginning in the 1960s, primarily under editor-dialogist Stan Lee and writer-artists Jack Kirby and Steve Ditko , this approach became commonly known as

92-592: A Time at the End of the World . The 15 issue series began publication in November that same year with three artists, Alexandre Tefenkgi, Leila del Duca, and Nick Dragotta, being employed every 5 issues to highlight the passage of time. In March 2023, Aaron announced that he was no longer under exclusive contract with Marvel. In August 2023, it was announced that Aaron would be writing a project for DC called Batman: Off-World ,

115-685: A couple of paragraphs to something much longer and more elaborate". The Marvel method was in place with at least one artist by early 1961, as Lee described in 2009 when speaking of his and Ditko's "short, five-page filler strips ... placed in any of our comics that had a few extra pages to fill", most prominently in Amazing Fantasy but even previously in Amazing Adventures and other " pre-superhero Marvel " science-fiction / fantasy anthology titles. I'd dream up odd fantasy tales with an O. Henry type twist ending. All I had to do

138-605: A one-shot story, written by Aaron in collaboration with other artists, featuring for first time ever in a Marvel comic book Disney 's Uncle Scrooge character. The story, named Uncle Scrooge and the Infinity Dime , introduced Scrooge and the Duck Universe to the Marvel Multiverse concept. Aaron moved to Kansas City, Kansas in 2000, the day after the first X-Men feature film was released. Aaron

161-427: A script is known as a comics writer . In this style, the comics writer breaks the story down in sequence, page-by-page and panel-by-panel, describing the action, characters, and sometimes backgrounds and "camera" points-of-view of each panel, as well as all captions and dialogue balloons. For decades, this was the preferred format for books published by DC Comics . Peter David described his specific application of

184-423: A script may be preceded by a plot outline, and is almost always followed by page sketches drawn by a comics artist and inked , succeeded by the coloring and lettering stages. There are no prescribed forms of comic scripts, but there are two dominant styles in the mainstream comics industry , the full script (commonly known as " DC style") and the plot script (or " Marvel house style "). The creator of

207-793: A six-issue limited series drawn by artist Doug Mahnke and inker Jamie Mendoza. The series would focus on a young Batman's first adventure in space. In October 2023, it was announced that Aaron's next DC project would be a three-issue story arc on Action Comics focusing on the character Bizarro to be drawn by artist John Timms. The story arc is part of a new Action Comics initiative called "Superman Superstars" where rotating creative teams of writers and artists write short story arcs focusing on Superman and his villains. Aaron's arc will start on Action Comics #1061 in January 2024 and end in March 2024 with Action Comics #1063. In June 2024, Marvel published

230-602: A year-long run on the Conan the Barbarian series after Marvel regained the licensing rights to the character in 2019. At the 2019 San Diego Comic Con , it was announced that Aaron's Thor storyline which depicted Jane Foster acquiring the mantle of the Thunder God would be the basis for the 2022 film Thor: Love and Thunder . In 2022, Aaron would write a new creator-owned book at Boom! Studios entitled Once Upon

253-499: Is a passionate and well known fan of the Alabama Crimson Tide football team . Commenting on the religious themes that run through his work, Aaron says he was raised Southern Baptist , but has since renounced religion: I've been an atheist for many years, but I've remained fascinated by religion. If anything, I've become more fascinated by religion and faith after I lost mine." Comic book writer In comics,

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276-452: The Marvel method or Marvel house style . Comics historian Mark Evanier writes that this "new means of collaboration . . . was born of necessity—Stan was overburdened with work—and to make use of Jack's great skill with storylines. . . . Sometimes Stan would type up a written plot outline for the artist. Sometimes, not". As comic-book writer-editor Dennis O'Neil describes,

299-559: The Vietnam War story The Other Side . The Other Side was nominated for an Eisner Award for Best Miniseries, and Aaron regards it as the "second time" he broke into the industry. Following this, Vertigo asked him to pitch other ideas, which led to Scalped , a creator-owned series with artist R. M. Guéra set on the fictional Prairie Rose Indian Reservation. In 2007, Aaron wrote Ripclaw : Pilot Season for Top Cow Productions . Later that year, Marvel editor Axel Alonso , who

322-415: The Marvel method "requires the writer to begin by writing out a plot and add[ing] words when the penciled artwork is finished. . . .[I]n the mid-sixties, plots were seldom more than a typewritten page, and sometimes less", while writers in later times "might produce as many as twenty-five pages of plot for a twenty-two page story, and even include in them snatches of dialog. So a Marvel Method plot can run from

345-416: The Marvel method over the full script method that have been cited by creators and industry professionals include: Cited disadvantages include: In a variation of the plot script, attributed to Harvey Kurtzman , the writer breaks down the story into page roughs or thumbnail sketches, with captions and dialogue jotted down inside the roughs. The artist (who is often the comic's writer as well) then fleshes out

368-399: 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

391-437: The full script method: "I break down each page on a panel by panel basis and label them as PANEL A, PANEL B, and so on. Then I describe what's in each panel, and then do the dialogue, numbering the balloons. I designate the panels with letters and the word balloons with numbers so as to minimize confusion for the letterer". In addition to writing the scripts, Jim Shooter drew layouts for the artist in his early work for DC. In

414-562: The roughs onto full-size art board. Writer/artists Frank Miller and Jeff Smith favor this style, as did Archie Goodwin . Attributed to William Gaines (Kurtzman's publisher at EC Comics ), the EC style is similar to the Kurtzman style, except the writer submits a tight plot to an artist, who breaks it down into panels that are laid out on the art board. The writer writes all captions and dialogue, which are pasted inside these panels, and then

437-494: 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 comic books from spinner racks , some of which he still owned as of 2012. Aaron graduated from Shelby County High School . He then attended the University of Alabama at Birmingham , where he graduated with

460-514: Was based on and influenced by his work on Thor. As part of his Marvel work, he co-created the character Gorr the God Butcher and introduced the concept of Jane Foster becoming Thor. Jason Aaron was born in Jasper, Alabama . His cousin, Gustav Hasford , who wrote the semi-autobiographical novel The Short-Timers (1979), on which the feature film Full Metal Jacket (1987) was based,

483-615: Was give Steve a one-line description of the plot and he'd be off and running. He'd take those skeleton outlines I had given him and turn them into classic little works of art that ended up being far cooler than I had any right to expect. The October 2018 issue of DC Comics' in-house previews magazine, DC Nation , featured a look at the creative process that writer Brian Michael Bendis and artists Ryan Sook , Wade von Grawbadger and Brad Anderson employed on Action Comics #1004, which included pages of Bendis' script that were broken down panel by panel, albeit without dialogue. Advantages of

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506-548: 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. In January 2008, he signed an exclusive contract with Marvel, though it would not affect his work on Scalped . In July of that year, he wrote the Penguin issue of Joker's Asylum . After a four-issue stint on Wolverine in 2007, Aaron returned to

529-464: Was relaunched once again as simply Wolverine . He followed this with the relaunch of The Incredible Hulk in 2011 and Thor: God of Thunder in 2012. Aaron and artist Mike Deodato collaborated on the Original Sin limited series in 2014. In 2018, Aaron relaunched Thor with Mike del Mundo and The Avengers with Ed McGuinness . In addition to his work on Marvel characters, Aaron wrote

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