Jason Aaron

Jason Aaron writes big, mythic comics without losing the grit underneath them. Across Thor, Scalped, The Other Side, Wolverine and the X-Men, Absolute Superman, and Bug Wars, he tends to push characters into impossible situations and then find the emotional truth inside the pressure. That instinct is all over the Splash Pages interview tied to this hub, where he talks about writing Superman for a new generation of readers, calling Mark Waid for a pep talk before his first Superman script, and using his Alabama childhood as the DNA for books as different as Bug Wars and Thundarr the Barbarian.

That mix of scale and humanity is what makes Aaron’s career hang together. Scalped remains one of the defining Vertigo crime books of its era. The Other Side was his first full comic script and the book that led to everything else. His Thor run reshaped the character for a generation of readers, while newer work like Absolute Superman shows he can still reinvent an icon without losing what makes the character inspirational.