Uber Man by Jorjani Jason Reza

Author:Jorjani, Jason Reza
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: time travel, reincarnation
ISBN: 9781914208782
Publisher: Arktos Media Ltd.
Published: 2022-03-26T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 6

Eighty-Eight

In the fall of 1987, I started to pick up Jason after school at Fleming on certain days and bring him home to where he lived at 200 East 90th street for his tutoring sessions. In the hours before his parents came back home from work, and especially on some long nights where they were embroiled in divorce-related proceedings, beginning in November, they left me home alone with him as a kind of babysitter. Once we were done with homework, I would engage him in playing with his entire toy collection. Some days it was his Star Wars toys, which he would pull out of the C-3PO and Darth Vader carrying cases on his bookshelf, sometimes it was the Marvel Secret Wars and DC Super Powers action figures, or the Star Trek figures from both The Original Series (the Mego ones) and The Next Generation, but his favorites were the figures from the Kenner toy line based on The Real Ghostbusters. Jason was enthralled as I came up with all kinds of story lines involving these figures and the worlds of the shows that they were based on. Admittedly, many of the narratives were drawn from plotlines that I knew would unfold in future shows or movie sequels (and prequels) of these franchises.

I noticed that Jason had the Japanese version of the Voltron toy, so I asked him whether he had seen the original GoLion anime that had been adapted into Voltron for an American audience. He had not, so one day I brought a cassette of it over, which had been subtitled in English for export, and we watched it on his VHS player before his parents got home. It was much more violent and intense than the censored version that was developed for release in the United States, but Jason noticed how the plotline was also a lot more coherent. As our relationship developed, I would wind up introducing him to a lot of Japanese anime acquired at a shop catering to immigrants from Japan down on East 9th street. They would import everything from Tokyo and Osaka as soon as it was released. We would ultimately watch Akira, Goku Midnight Eye, and Angel Cop together, in the privacy of my penthouse where no one knew what kind of “cartoons” I was showing a seven-year-old. I also exposed him to the “comics” in Heavy Metal magazines, so that in his own drawings he would try to imitate the art of the French illustrators Moebius, Druillet, and Caza. I pulled the Heavy Metal stack out after playing a bootleg VHS of the 1981 animated movie for him. He loved it! I got him a bedside lamp to take home that looked exactly like the Loc-Nar.

You see, after Fereidun Jorjani left for Los Angeles, I convinced Susan Power to let me bring Jason over to my apartment to tutor him here after school instead. I explained that the splendor of the apartment, which I had to invite her to

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