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Hack/Slash #O1
Hack/Slash Omnibus Volume 1
At the end of every horror movie, one girl always survives...in this case, Cassie Hack not only survives, she turns the tables by hunting and destroying the horrible slashers that would do harm to the innocent Alongside the gentle giant known as Vlad, the two cut a bloody path through those who deserve to be put down...hard.
Collects: Hack/Slash (Euthanized), Girls Gone Dead, Comic Book Carnage, Hack/Slash vs Evil Ernie, Land of Lost Toys 1-3, Trailers, “Slashing through the Snow”, Slice Hard Prequel, Slice Hard, and Hack/Slash vs. Chucky
TPB Equivalent: First Cut (volume 1), Death by Sequel (volume 2) and a portion of Friday the 31st (volume 3). Omnibus 1 is the only place Hack/Slash vs. Evil Ernie is collected.
Extras: Sketchbook, cover and pin-up gallery, article about the Hack/Slash play, and Psychofiles of The Lunch Lady, Bobby, Laura and Father Wrath, Lloyd and Jimmy, Acid Angel, Ashley, Blackfin, Hibachi Devil, Mortimer Strick, Waking Man, X-O, Dr. Gross, Chucky, Six Sixx, and Evil Ernie.
300 pages, Paperback
First published February 13, 2008
About the author
Tim Seeley
1,542 books548 followersTim Seeley is a comic book artist and writer known for his work on books such as G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero, The Dark Elf Trilogy, Batman Eternal and Grayson. He is also the co-creator of the Image Comics titles Hack/Slash[1] and Revival, as well as the Dark Horse titles, ExSanguine and Sundowners. He lives in Chicago.
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October 28, 2020
This is one of those comics that I think plays well to its audience, but I'm not necessarily the right audience.
However, if you're a fan of slasher flicks? Then this might be right up your alley.
The basic premise is that Cassie Hack and her deformed friend, Vlad, hunt down slashers.
Huh? <--I said when I first read it
Well, apparently slashers are sort of like ghost-zombies of dead killers, and they pretty much play out scenes from horror movies. Cassie's mother was a nutjob who came back to life as a slasher and she had to kill her...again. And now she hunts these monsters ala Supernatural, except she's all scantily clad and carrying a baseball bat.
The stories themselves were ok (<--again, not my bag), but I think the thing that it did very well was gently poked fun at the entire genre in a respectful way that fans will really enjoy. As in, the overabundance of tits and ass are more for humor than they are for anything else.
There are plenty of great cameos in these issues. Everyone from comic book writers (Skottie Young & Robert Kirkman) to famous movie villains (Chucky), and even though each story is pretty self-contained some of the characters show up more than once.
I think most horror aficionados have already heard of Hack/Slash, but if you haven't? This one might be something for you to check out.
However, if you're a fan of slasher flicks? Then this might be right up your alley.
The basic premise is that Cassie Hack and her deformed friend, Vlad, hunt down slashers.
Huh? <--I said when I first read it
Well, apparently slashers are sort of like ghost-zombies of dead killers, and they pretty much play out scenes from horror movies. Cassie's mother was a nutjob who came back to life as a slasher and she had to kill her...again. And now she hunts these monsters ala Supernatural, except she's all scantily clad and carrying a baseball bat.
The stories themselves were ok (<--again, not my bag), but I think the thing that it did very well was gently poked fun at the entire genre in a respectful way that fans will really enjoy. As in, the overabundance of tits and ass are more for humor than they are for anything else.
There are plenty of great cameos in these issues. Everyone from comic book writers (Skottie Young & Robert Kirkman) to famous movie villains (Chucky), and even though each story is pretty self-contained some of the characters show up more than once.
I think most horror aficionados have already heard of Hack/Slash, but if you haven't? This one might be something for you to check out.
October 29, 2020
4.5 Stars ⭐️. I love this omnibus so damn much! I want to own all of the paperback omnibuses but they are too expensive right now for a broke girl! 😫. Anyhoo, here’s some graphics!
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
Mel 🖤🐶🐺🐾
January 6, 2012
When the title of a comic is Hack/Slash, you have a pretty good idea what you're going to be getting in a story.
I picked up this omnibus edition about a year ago at a small local convention (it turns out the author is from Wisconsin) and really enjoyed it. It's a fun story about a young girl that kills serial killers.
Think Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Clockwork Orange.
It's fun, violent, humorous, and with just enough of a overarching plot to keep me interested in the overall narrative. I like it.
March 28, 2019
Okay before we begin, why is this listed as erotica on Amazon? I personally got slightly concerned when seeing that (I’m fine with sexual content but want more than that in the things I read, if I wanted porn I would go online and look up porn). Fortunately this is not erotica but I am confused why it’s listed as that. Yes there is some gratuitous fan service but that’s in a lot of comics and if you sit around punching your monkey to the nearly constant blood and dismemberment in this... umm... yeah, you need a psychiatrist and prayers.
What’s it about?
Cassie Hack is a girl with a very fucked up past. Full of anger and hatred she’s out to hunt down a special kind of killer... slashers. With the help of Vlad, she kills the psychos in some of the goriest, most batshit crazy stories you can think of.
Pros:
The story is pretty interesting. It’s probably not gonna change your life and isn’t really a groundbreaking tale that delivers anything new to the horror genre but it is a fun parody/tribute to the genre that fans will probably enjoy. It is cheesy but in a fun way that I enjoyed.
Most of the art is freaking awesome!
The characters are interesting. I know it’s weird but I actually care about the 2 main characters. Cassie is very interesting and bad-ass! Vlad is awesome! I actually think he’s one of those supporting characters that ends up being cooler than the main character (not that Cassie isn’t cool but... seriously, Vlad is fucking awesome).
The action is frequent and awesome. There’s all kinds of blood soaked action throughout and it’s super intense. You aren’t likely to get bored reading this one!
This is a horror-comedy and holy shit, the humor is great! Rarely does a book (or any kinda entertainment TBH) make me laugh out loud as much as this! It is one of the funniest comics of all time, I was laughing so hard the entire time!
This book is surprisingly suspenseful. It has readers wondering about the twists and such.
This book’s horror quality is good. Interesting slasher villains throughout (including some special guests) with tons of blood and guts! Not to mention a few kind of creepy moments. I dig it!
Lots of great easter eggs and references throughout. This book’s easter eggs will delight both horror fans and comic book nerds. Since most of the audience (including me) will be both I like that.
There a few surprisingly emotional moments.
Cons:
Sad things happen to animals with no happiness or vengeance to make up for it. Keep in mind that I’m one of those people that loves stuff like Berserk but can’t watch movies like All Dogs Go To Heaven so... yeah.
A few chapters had kinda dumb stories... like they were a bit... I dunno... weak maybe.
One particular chapter has some iffy art (forget the name of the chapter). The faces often looked weird in it.
I noticed Cassie wrapping her finger around the trigger when holding a gun a few times. I’m a fan of guns, hunting and target shooting so I often notice things like that and it drives me nuts. Like, for one if you ain’t shooting your finger has no business being on that trigger and when shooting you tap the trigger with the tip of your finger.
The endings of the stories are usually a little dumb and slightly cliche. Not all of them but quite a few.
Overall:
While this did have everything I wanted it to have, it had quite a few things I didn’t want it to have if that makes sense. The story is fun, there’s lots of gory action, it’s freakin’ hilarious and the characters are really cool but nonetheless there are quite a few problems so I’m not quite sure I would say it’s super great.
Make no mistake, I did really enjoy it, I consider it to be a good book and I am definitely adding the second omnibus to my reading list.
With all that said I would say if you’re a horror fan who thinks “yeah, I’d enjoy a fun parody of the slasher sub-genre” or if you’re a fan of stuff like Supernatural kinda getting tired of the same thing for the... 15th(?) season and are looking for something that is (IMO) of higher quality and without the restrictions of a TV-14 rating than yeah, definitely check this out.
If you aren’t a horror fan or need your horror stories to be more serious in order to enjoy it... umm... yeah you’re just gonna think it’s stupid. Don’t bother.
It’s not for everyone and it’s not a masterpiece but it is fun and that’s the book’s intent so to me, it’s a winner!
4/5
PS- I would love to see a Chippy The Slasher Slayer series and if there’s ever a film or TV series based on this Code of The Slashers by Cannibal Corpse should definitely be in the soundtrack.
What’s it about?
Cassie Hack is a girl with a very fucked up past. Full of anger and hatred she’s out to hunt down a special kind of killer... slashers. With the help of Vlad, she kills the psychos in some of the goriest, most batshit crazy stories you can think of.
Pros:
The story is pretty interesting. It’s probably not gonna change your life and isn’t really a groundbreaking tale that delivers anything new to the horror genre but it is a fun parody/tribute to the genre that fans will probably enjoy. It is cheesy but in a fun way that I enjoyed.
Most of the art is freaking awesome!
The characters are interesting. I know it’s weird but I actually care about the 2 main characters. Cassie is very interesting and bad-ass! Vlad is awesome! I actually think he’s one of those supporting characters that ends up being cooler than the main character (not that Cassie isn’t cool but... seriously, Vlad is fucking awesome).
The action is frequent and awesome. There’s all kinds of blood soaked action throughout and it’s super intense. You aren’t likely to get bored reading this one!
This is a horror-comedy and holy shit, the humor is great! Rarely does a book (or any kinda entertainment TBH) make me laugh out loud as much as this! It is one of the funniest comics of all time, I was laughing so hard the entire time!
This book is surprisingly suspenseful. It has readers wondering about the twists and such.
This book’s horror quality is good. Interesting slasher villains throughout (including some special guests) with tons of blood and guts! Not to mention a few kind of creepy moments. I dig it!
Lots of great easter eggs and references throughout. This book’s easter eggs will delight both horror fans and comic book nerds. Since most of the audience (including me) will be both I like that.
There a few surprisingly emotional moments.
Cons:
Sad things happen to animals with no happiness or vengeance to make up for it. Keep in mind that I’m one of those people that loves stuff like Berserk but can’t watch movies like All Dogs Go To Heaven so... yeah.
A few chapters had kinda dumb stories... like they were a bit... I dunno... weak maybe.
One particular chapter has some iffy art (forget the name of the chapter). The faces often looked weird in it.
I noticed Cassie wrapping her finger around the trigger when holding a gun a few times. I’m a fan of guns, hunting and target shooting so I often notice things like that and it drives me nuts. Like, for one if you ain’t shooting your finger has no business being on that trigger and when shooting you tap the trigger with the tip of your finger.
The endings of the stories are usually a little dumb and slightly cliche. Not all of them but quite a few.
Overall:
While this did have everything I wanted it to have, it had quite a few things I didn’t want it to have if that makes sense. The story is fun, there’s lots of gory action, it’s freakin’ hilarious and the characters are really cool but nonetheless there are quite a few problems so I’m not quite sure I would say it’s super great.
Make no mistake, I did really enjoy it, I consider it to be a good book and I am definitely adding the second omnibus to my reading list.
With all that said I would say if you’re a horror fan who thinks “yeah, I’d enjoy a fun parody of the slasher sub-genre” or if you’re a fan of stuff like Supernatural kinda getting tired of the same thing for the... 15th(?) season and are looking for something that is (IMO) of higher quality and without the restrictions of a TV-14 rating than yeah, definitely check this out.
If you aren’t a horror fan or need your horror stories to be more serious in order to enjoy it... umm... yeah you’re just gonna think it’s stupid. Don’t bother.
It’s not for everyone and it’s not a masterpiece but it is fun and that’s the book’s intent so to me, it’s a winner!
4/5
PS- I would love to see a Chippy The Slasher Slayer series and if there’s ever a film or TV series based on this Code of The Slashers by Cannibal Corpse should definitely be in the soundtrack.
December 4, 2013
Just look at how ridiculous and awesome this cover is. This is the kind of cover that I wouldn’t really carry under my arm in public, and in fact, I was a little embarrassed having it on my bedside table. Still, I couldn’t pass this up after finding out about the book’s concept, and while it’s a bit of a hot mess, I’m glad I gave it a try.
Hack/Slash is an Image title that began life as a sporadic indie comic, which chronicles the episodic adventures of Cassandra Hack and her hulking, disfigured companion, Vlad. When Cassie was a teenager, her mother committed suicide after being revealed as a serial killer, only to rise from the grave as a vengeful undead “slasher.” Cassie was forced to put her own mother out of commission a second time, and has roamed the country ever since, seeking out other slashers and ending their respective reigns of terror.
This collection is about as over-the-top as one would expect it to be. I’ve seen other readers lambaste this title for being shallow and tawdry, and I’m forced to wonder what they were expecting when they picked it up. For my part, I got exactly what I thought I would: B-flick plotting, campy dialogue, pointless sexual titillation, and plenty of gore. In short, everything that horror movies used to be. There are even crossover one-shots that star Evil Ernie from the eponymous horror comic and Chucky from the Child’s Play movies, along with additional “movie trailer” shorts, to drive that particular point home. It’s definitely not going to make you think, and could rightly be identified as vulgar or even sexist. But it’s a rough-hewn blend of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a Troma film, which does just fine by me.
I did have a problem with this omnibus, though, and it’s bad enough that I almost knocked another point off. The art, generally speaking, is atrocious. As in, occasionally edging past the line of so-bad-it's-endearing, but more often just plain bad. Seeley recruits a number of artists, including himself, to pencil these early Hack/Slash entries. Some of them are decent, but others may as well have been doodling in their textbooks during algebra class. This is less of a problem when there is a single unifying art style, but in the last story of the collection, the artwork literally changes from page to page as different artists take the helm for a few panels. There are a couple of bright spots, most notably the stylized, nightmarish work in the Evil Ernie crossover. However, these are negated by some amateurish and truly ugly panels elsewhere.
All told, though, this was a great junk-food read. I wish things had come together a bit better, story-wise, and I legitimately hated a good portion of the art. I enjoyed the book like I would any of the slasher movies that inspired it, though, and the concept is fun and interesting enough that I will probably pick up the next omnibus. I hope there will be more of a story arc as I get into the run of the continuing comic, but at this point I’d be satisfied with another dose of increasingly weird slashers and unapologetic butt-kicking.
Hack/Slash is an Image title that began life as a sporadic indie comic, which chronicles the episodic adventures of Cassandra Hack and her hulking, disfigured companion, Vlad. When Cassie was a teenager, her mother committed suicide after being revealed as a serial killer, only to rise from the grave as a vengeful undead “slasher.” Cassie was forced to put her own mother out of commission a second time, and has roamed the country ever since, seeking out other slashers and ending their respective reigns of terror.
This collection is about as over-the-top as one would expect it to be. I’ve seen other readers lambaste this title for being shallow and tawdry, and I’m forced to wonder what they were expecting when they picked it up. For my part, I got exactly what I thought I would: B-flick plotting, campy dialogue, pointless sexual titillation, and plenty of gore. In short, everything that horror movies used to be. There are even crossover one-shots that star Evil Ernie from the eponymous horror comic and Chucky from the Child’s Play movies, along with additional “movie trailer” shorts, to drive that particular point home. It’s definitely not going to make you think, and could rightly be identified as vulgar or even sexist. But it’s a rough-hewn blend of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a Troma film, which does just fine by me.
I did have a problem with this omnibus, though, and it’s bad enough that I almost knocked another point off. The art, generally speaking, is atrocious. As in, occasionally edging past the line of so-bad-it's-endearing, but more often just plain bad. Seeley recruits a number of artists, including himself, to pencil these early Hack/Slash entries. Some of them are decent, but others may as well have been doodling in their textbooks during algebra class. This is less of a problem when there is a single unifying art style, but in the last story of the collection, the artwork literally changes from page to page as different artists take the helm for a few panels. There are a couple of bright spots, most notably the stylized, nightmarish work in the Evil Ernie crossover. However, these are negated by some amateurish and truly ugly panels elsewhere.
All told, though, this was a great junk-food read. I wish things had come together a bit better, story-wise, and I legitimately hated a good portion of the art. I enjoyed the book like I would any of the slasher movies that inspired it, though, and the concept is fun and interesting enough that I will probably pick up the next omnibus. I hope there will be more of a story arc as I get into the run of the continuing comic, but at this point I’d be satisfied with another dose of increasingly weird slashers and unapologetic butt-kicking.
February 7, 2019
Probably only for slasher fans and horny boys that want to see a lot of tits and ass in their comics.
Cassie Hack and her huge and deformed buddy Vlad are hunting down slashers that were killed at some point already but returned from the dead to wreak more havoc. Like Cassie’s mom, who was slaughtering little school girls that were mean to little Cassie before eventually Mommy herself was killed by Cassie. Though that happened in the prequel Hack/Slash: My first Maniac.
This first omnibus collects several one-shots that were included in who knows which volumes of the series. Sometimes the publishing history of comics is rather confusing.
The one-shots collected in this one are the following:
Artists keep changing throughout the book which leads to a constant change in style that didn’t bother me. On the contrary, I found it quite interesting. Though the quality was inevitably fluctuating as well.
For the ones interested in who has done what exactly:
The writing has all been done by Tim Seeley though. And there’s a certain consistency in tone. Slasher movies are usually funny or scary or both. And this one very much falls on the funny side, though it isn‘t always on target. If you’re looking for scary, look somewhere else.
The stories are told chronologically as far as I can tell and there are some recurring characters and themes. Though they are still very much self-contained. You could pick up any of those without missing something significant.
The one I really recommend is Hack/Slash vs. Chucky, as that one has been tremendous fun.
The one that stood out in terms of the art was Hack/Slash vs. Evil Ernie. This one looked really interesting and very different from the rest. I liked that style a lot. But I thought the story was rather boring.
Hack/Slash: Trailers had some really good moments and even one story that was told in the form of a poem. But I can’t really see why anyone would buy this one, since it tells several stories in a single issue comic, which makes them very very short. And most are not even complete. They’re really just trailers. Even though they were fun.
This omnibus is free on kindle unlimited (at least in Germany). So if you’re fond of slasher flicks you might want to pick it up, read the stories you like and skip the rest. It isn’t necessary to read the whole thing. Though I did.
Overall this was wavering around three stars for most of the time. Some stories were average, some were decent and the one with Chucky was really good.
The art, even though inconsistent, was consistently better than it was in the prequel, which I thought wasn’t very nice to look at.
As a whole this was a pleasant surprise after the somewhat underwhelming Hack/Slash: My first Maniac. But the moments in which it was really good were few and far between, to be honest.
Cassie Hack and her huge and deformed buddy Vlad are hunting down slashers that were killed at some point already but returned from the dead to wreak more havoc. Like Cassie’s mom, who was slaughtering little school girls that were mean to little Cassie before eventually Mommy herself was killed by Cassie. Though that happened in the prequel Hack/Slash: My first Maniac.
This first omnibus collects several one-shots that were included in who knows which volumes of the series. Sometimes the publishing history of comics is rather confusing.
The one-shots collected in this one are the following:
Artists keep changing throughout the book which leads to a constant change in style that didn’t bother me. On the contrary, I found it quite interesting. Though the quality was inevitably fluctuating as well.
For the ones interested in who has done what exactly:
The writing has all been done by Tim Seeley though. And there’s a certain consistency in tone. Slasher movies are usually funny or scary or both. And this one very much falls on the funny side, though it isn‘t always on target. If you’re looking for scary, look somewhere else.
The stories are told chronologically as far as I can tell and there are some recurring characters and themes. Though they are still very much self-contained. You could pick up any of those without missing something significant.
The one I really recommend is Hack/Slash vs. Chucky, as that one has been tremendous fun.
The one that stood out in terms of the art was Hack/Slash vs. Evil Ernie. This one looked really interesting and very different from the rest. I liked that style a lot. But I thought the story was rather boring.
Hack/Slash: Trailers had some really good moments and even one story that was told in the form of a poem. But I can’t really see why anyone would buy this one, since it tells several stories in a single issue comic, which makes them very very short. And most are not even complete. They’re really just trailers. Even though they were fun.
This omnibus is free on kindle unlimited (at least in Germany). So if you’re fond of slasher flicks you might want to pick it up, read the stories you like and skip the rest. It isn’t necessary to read the whole thing. Though I did.
Overall this was wavering around three stars for most of the time. Some stories were average, some were decent and the one with Chucky was really good.
The art, even though inconsistent, was consistently better than it was in the prequel, which I thought wasn’t very nice to look at.
As a whole this was a pleasant surprise after the somewhat underwhelming Hack/Slash: My first Maniac. But the moments in which it was really good were few and far between, to be honest.
July 16, 2018
I went into this comic not sure whether I would like it or not. I was a little deterred by the fact that it looks a bit raunchy, but I was also very intrigued by the premise. This has been a comic on my TBR for a number of years and it felt like fate to read it since I found it on a digital comic book platform for free. So, I dived in hoping for the best and I was pleasantly surprised.
Sure enough the premise is what really one me over. And despite the fact that Cassie Hack is drawn very promiscuously she is actually more complex of a character as issues progress. The writing seems a bit outdated, especially considering that this omnibus came out a decade ago, which means that the first issue came out well before that. I appreciated the different art styles even though I preferred some over the others and I really liked the cameos.
Despite the scantily clad girls prancing around, Cassie unbeknownst to herself being one of them, it fits into the "Slasher" vibe. I remember watching slasher films as a kid, and girls dressed only in their underwear were always the first to go. So, while I am sure that this aspect of the comic may have been for fan-service it's also not completely out of the genre, so I can accept it. Though with the bounds we have been making in making heroines less... well naked, I think if this series were ever to get revived we would need to see a different Cassie Hack.
However, I do believe that there is also more going on than just half-naked girls. Like I said I really liked Cassie Hack, she is multidimensional. I like her partnership with Vlad and the connections she makes along her journey. What's really interesting about this book is the fact that it does revolve around Slashers and this idea of "evil never dies". We also get a deeper look into the recipe for a slasher which was fun. I grew up loving horror movies, but it doesn't mean I wasn't afraid of them (it's kind of the point). Having a girl like Cassie Hack is kind of like having that awesome "final girl" and making her more badass.
All in all if you have a love of slasher or horror films, you might get a real kick (punch, slice, hack) out of this one!
Sure enough the premise is what really one me over. And despite the fact that Cassie Hack is drawn very promiscuously she is actually more complex of a character as issues progress. The writing seems a bit outdated, especially considering that this omnibus came out a decade ago, which means that the first issue came out well before that. I appreciated the different art styles even though I preferred some over the others and I really liked the cameos.
Despite the scantily clad girls prancing around, Cassie unbeknownst to herself being one of them, it fits into the "Slasher" vibe. I remember watching slasher films as a kid, and girls dressed only in their underwear were always the first to go. So, while I am sure that this aspect of the comic may have been for fan-service it's also not completely out of the genre, so I can accept it. Though with the bounds we have been making in making heroines less... well naked, I think if this series were ever to get revived we would need to see a different Cassie Hack.
However, I do believe that there is also more going on than just half-naked girls. Like I said I really liked Cassie Hack, she is multidimensional. I like her partnership with Vlad and the connections she makes along her journey. What's really interesting about this book is the fact that it does revolve around Slashers and this idea of "evil never dies". We also get a deeper look into the recipe for a slasher which was fun. I grew up loving horror movies, but it doesn't mean I wasn't afraid of them (it's kind of the point). Having a girl like Cassie Hack is kind of like having that awesome "final girl" and making her more badass.
All in all if you have a love of slasher or horror films, you might get a real kick (punch, slice, hack) out of this one!
June 14, 2012
Take Buffy the Vampire Slayer, give her a goth/suicide girl fashion sense, make her a little more anti-social, replace the vampires with 80s horror movie slashers and you get Hack/Slash, which is probably my favorite comic series ever. It doesn't have the depth of Sandman or any other Vertigo-esque title, it's just a ton of fun to read.
Cassie Hack, our main character, is the sole survivor of a massacre by a slasher called the Lunch Lady, who turns out to be her own mother. Delilah Hack only ever wanted to protect her daughter from malicious school bullies, but when the police find out she's the one that's been murdering students, she kills herself, only to come back as the Lunch Lady. Cassie is then forced to kill her slasherfied mother as she no longer possesses the small amount of restraint she had in life. Afterwards, Cassie vows to journey across the country putting an end to other slashers. Along the way she meets Vlad, a hulking, misshapen, gas mask wearing man who becomes her sidekick.
The dynamic between Cassie and Vlad is one of the best I've seen in a comic, and the ever growing rogues gallery of slashers never fails to entertain. Seriously, give the book a shot.
Cassie Hack, our main character, is the sole survivor of a massacre by a slasher called the Lunch Lady, who turns out to be her own mother. Delilah Hack only ever wanted to protect her daughter from malicious school bullies, but when the police find out she's the one that's been murdering students, she kills herself, only to come back as the Lunch Lady. Cassie is then forced to kill her slasherfied mother as she no longer possesses the small amount of restraint she had in life. Afterwards, Cassie vows to journey across the country putting an end to other slashers. Along the way she meets Vlad, a hulking, misshapen, gas mask wearing man who becomes her sidekick.
The dynamic between Cassie and Vlad is one of the best I've seen in a comic, and the ever growing rogues gallery of slashers never fails to entertain. Seriously, give the book a shot.
February 6, 2017
Hack/Slash is about as basic as it gets. Imagine all of the slasher flicks you have ever seen in your lifetime. Take a crazy amount of killers, a feisty heroine, her best friend and fierce protector, throw them in a blender and you have this very fun series.
Cassie Hack is the brains. She's a beauty, takes no shit and her sole purpose in life is to rid the world of demented killers. Her disfigured bodyguard with the brawn and a heart of gold provides the muscle. Together, they make the world a better place for you and for me.
I can see Hack/Slash not being everyone's cup of tea. For me, it's pretty much perfect. I grew up on slasher flicks. This series contains every element in those films. I would think if you enjoyed that genre, this is right up your alley. However, if blood, guts, carnage and craziness isn't your thing, it's pretty safe to say you won't enjoy Hack/Slash.
Cassie Hack is the brains. She's a beauty, takes no shit and her sole purpose in life is to rid the world of demented killers. Her disfigured bodyguard with the brawn and a heart of gold provides the muscle. Together, they make the world a better place for you and for me.
I can see Hack/Slash not being everyone's cup of tea. For me, it's pretty much perfect. I grew up on slasher flicks. This series contains every element in those films. I would think if you enjoyed that genre, this is right up your alley. However, if blood, guts, carnage and craziness isn't your thing, it's pretty safe to say you won't enjoy Hack/Slash.
March 13, 2020
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4.5/5
I love Hack/Slash. Abandoning all premise of objectivity, I've got to say this is my favorite independent comic currently ongoing and I suggest everyone go and pick it up. I also suggest people pick up the twenty dollar omnibus for the series and buy them each in turn. I could go on with my needless fanboy-ism but I think you all get the picture. So, instead, I'm going to dial it back and try to objectively talk about the series.
The premise of Hack/Slash is a somewhat darker take on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer: different in execution but coming from the same roots. Cassie Hack is your typical Final Girl in a slasher movie, the slasher being her mother in this case. She's a soft, nerdy, virginal, introverted girl who brings down the big bad monster. Unfortunately, her mother proceeds to come back from the dead only to force her to put it down again. You see, in this world, serial killers are prone to resurrecting themselves as undead monsters. Killer!
Re-inventing herself as a sexy Goth girl, Cassie travels across America with her partner Vlad to hunt these supernatural immortals. Vlad is, quite ingeniously, a "good" version of Jason Voorhees. He's a gas-mask wearing deformed giant raised in near-complete isolation who has latched onto Cassie because she's, quite literally, his only friend in the world. A lot of the comics humor comes from the fact that Vlad is arguably better adjusted than Cassie despite his appearance and upbringing.
The first omnibus collects a bunch of the one-shots and mini-series which initially introduced Cassie Hack to the world. The first story, Euthanized, is a surprisingly effective horror story that takes its premise dead serious (pun intended). Girls Gone Dead nicely analyzes the "Good Girl vs. Slut" dynamic so frequently parodied in horror movies where the villain is the kind of Bible-thumping bad guy who would approve yet oozes hypocrisy.
As a religious man, I approved of the fact the satire limited itself to a very limited part of the Christian faith. I also enjoyed Slice Hard, which had poor Cassie having to choose between assisting a corporate conspiracy and helping her friend Vlad get a normal life. I even liked Hack/Slash vs. Chucky despite the shameless crossover promotion which certainly motivated the story.
Did I dislike any of the stories? Not really. However, I wasn't too enthusiastic about Hack/Slash versus Evil Ernie. Despite the attempt to write a deep and meaningful story about the premise (seriously), I've never been a fan of Devil's Due. Evil Ernie is a parody of 90s anti-heroes taken to the grimdark eleven so the story trying to find emotional poignancy in a world where he hasn't killed 90% of the planet is....difficult to take seriously. Even there, the art is beautiful and we get a sense of Cassie's loneliness.
I have only one real major complaint about the volume: The cover. This isn't a minor complaint either. I'm a married man who has difficulty explaining his love of comics to his wife sometimes. This particular cover is deliberately vulgar and seems designed to appeal to the shameless exploitation lovers of the fandom. The cover makes the book difficult to read in a public place and implies the book is nonstop fanservice. What's interesting is while Cassie Hack wears rather fetishistic Goth-wear, I actually found that element of the series tamer than mainstream comics. It's only to the point that Cassie Hack is anatomically possible but that's something.
Indeed, I think the comic might actually due better to dial back even further because I'm a "less is more" kind of guy (or, technically, more is more since we're dealing with women's state of undress in comics). Cassie is an enjoyable comic heroine and while I love sexiness, I think it could actually be something for readers other than boys (both teenage and otherwise) given how well-realized and well-written a character. I was still impressed enough to order the entire series, however, so this is exalting with faint criticism.
A warning for the squeamish at heart, Hack/Slash is a comic based around 1980s horror movies. There's parodies of Pet Semetery, Friday the Thirteenth, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jaws, and (of course) Child's Play. There are plenty of places the series gets gory and a lot of the supporting cast for each issue gets killed. Still, your love of the series is likely to only go up the more you have experience with these stories. I will say, however, I prefer the original work and and know the series only gets better when it reaches Volume 2. This is a great comic, though, and one of the best I've read in a very long time.
4.5/5
I love Hack/Slash. Abandoning all premise of objectivity, I've got to say this is my favorite independent comic currently ongoing and I suggest everyone go and pick it up. I also suggest people pick up the twenty dollar omnibus for the series and buy them each in turn. I could go on with my needless fanboy-ism but I think you all get the picture. So, instead, I'm going to dial it back and try to objectively talk about the series.
The premise of Hack/Slash is a somewhat darker take on Buffy: The Vampire Slayer: different in execution but coming from the same roots. Cassie Hack is your typical Final Girl in a slasher movie, the slasher being her mother in this case. She's a soft, nerdy, virginal, introverted girl who brings down the big bad monster. Unfortunately, her mother proceeds to come back from the dead only to force her to put it down again. You see, in this world, serial killers are prone to resurrecting themselves as undead monsters. Killer!
Re-inventing herself as a sexy Goth girl, Cassie travels across America with her partner Vlad to hunt these supernatural immortals. Vlad is, quite ingeniously, a "good" version of Jason Voorhees. He's a gas-mask wearing deformed giant raised in near-complete isolation who has latched onto Cassie because she's, quite literally, his only friend in the world. A lot of the comics humor comes from the fact that Vlad is arguably better adjusted than Cassie despite his appearance and upbringing.
The first omnibus collects a bunch of the one-shots and mini-series which initially introduced Cassie Hack to the world. The first story, Euthanized, is a surprisingly effective horror story that takes its premise dead serious (pun intended). Girls Gone Dead nicely analyzes the "Good Girl vs. Slut" dynamic so frequently parodied in horror movies where the villain is the kind of Bible-thumping bad guy who would approve yet oozes hypocrisy.
As a religious man, I approved of the fact the satire limited itself to a very limited part of the Christian faith. I also enjoyed Slice Hard, which had poor Cassie having to choose between assisting a corporate conspiracy and helping her friend Vlad get a normal life. I even liked Hack/Slash vs. Chucky despite the shameless crossover promotion which certainly motivated the story.
Did I dislike any of the stories? Not really. However, I wasn't too enthusiastic about Hack/Slash versus Evil Ernie. Despite the attempt to write a deep and meaningful story about the premise (seriously), I've never been a fan of Devil's Due. Evil Ernie is a parody of 90s anti-heroes taken to the grimdark eleven so the story trying to find emotional poignancy in a world where he hasn't killed 90% of the planet is....difficult to take seriously. Even there, the art is beautiful and we get a sense of Cassie's loneliness.
I have only one real major complaint about the volume: The cover. This isn't a minor complaint either. I'm a married man who has difficulty explaining his love of comics to his wife sometimes. This particular cover is deliberately vulgar and seems designed to appeal to the shameless exploitation lovers of the fandom. The cover makes the book difficult to read in a public place and implies the book is nonstop fanservice. What's interesting is while Cassie Hack wears rather fetishistic Goth-wear, I actually found that element of the series tamer than mainstream comics. It's only to the point that Cassie Hack is anatomically possible but that's something.
Indeed, I think the comic might actually due better to dial back even further because I'm a "less is more" kind of guy (or, technically, more is more since we're dealing with women's state of undress in comics). Cassie is an enjoyable comic heroine and while I love sexiness, I think it could actually be something for readers other than boys (both teenage and otherwise) given how well-realized and well-written a character. I was still impressed enough to order the entire series, however, so this is exalting with faint criticism.
A warning for the squeamish at heart, Hack/Slash is a comic based around 1980s horror movies. There's parodies of Pet Semetery, Friday the Thirteenth, A Nightmare on Elm Street, Jaws, and (of course) Child's Play. There are plenty of places the series gets gory and a lot of the supporting cast for each issue gets killed. Still, your love of the series is likely to only go up the more you have experience with these stories. I will say, however, I prefer the original work and and know the series only gets better when it reaches Volume 2. This is a great comic, though, and one of the best I've read in a very long time.
October 4, 2019
Hack/Slash should be perfect for me. I LOVE horror movies. When I'm not reading I can probably be found watching something gory. I love all the classics and slashers are one of my absolute favorite subgenres. That is what attracted me to this series. I saw that it was supposed to be about a Final Girl going on the hunt for slashers, a branch of the undead, which explains why you can burn a slasher alive and they just come right back. Great concept, I am about it. Unfortunately, the book falls a bit short of my expectations.
Let's get this part out of the way, it's exploitative to the highest degree. That's not inherently a bad thing, a lot of the horror genre is designed to be gratuitous is every sense. But here, it got very tiresome very quickly. Mostly because it is just panty shot after panty shot of our heroine Cassie Hack. Now, based on the covers I figured she'd be drawn as the sexy goth girl. I can get past that, it kind of just comes with the territory for both horror and comics, I'm not gonna be able to change that overnight. But panel after panel of upskirt views starts to feel creepy. I felt like I was intruding on her in a way that made my skin crawl.
Okay, now that that part is done, let's talk about plot. There isn't one. The premise is basically it. The author, Tim Seeley, came up with the idea and then took it no further. We have our Final Girl, joined by a lovable giant Vlad, killing slasher tropes across the nation. For 10 issues. We get a little glimpse into who these two characters are, enough to really want to know more, but are left empty. The killing horror movie stereotypes thing was fun at first but by the end of the volume I kept checking how much was left and was just ready for it to be over. Sorry to say I wont be continuing with this series because I just read 10 of the same issue and that's more than enough.
There are also some weird art issues. The illustrator seems to change with every issue and they range from quite good and eye catching to distractingly bad. More than once there were perspective issues in which a character's face looked odd and distorted. And one issue had some of the worst line work I've ever seen. The lines were thick and uneven and made everything look wonky and out of focus.
This all being said, if you're looking for something mindless to pick up one issue at a time, this might be for you. I really did like some of the nods to my favorite movies and Vlad is a truly enjoyable character. But this one is not for bingeing.
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Let's get this part out of the way, it's exploitative to the highest degree. That's not inherently a bad thing, a lot of the horror genre is designed to be gratuitous is every sense. But here, it got very tiresome very quickly. Mostly because it is just panty shot after panty shot of our heroine Cassie Hack. Now, based on the covers I figured she'd be drawn as the sexy goth girl. I can get past that, it kind of just comes with the territory for both horror and comics, I'm not gonna be able to change that overnight. But panel after panel of upskirt views starts to feel creepy. I felt like I was intruding on her in a way that made my skin crawl.
Okay, now that that part is done, let's talk about plot. There isn't one. The premise is basically it. The author, Tim Seeley, came up with the idea and then took it no further. We have our Final Girl, joined by a lovable giant Vlad, killing slasher tropes across the nation. For 10 issues. We get a little glimpse into who these two characters are, enough to really want to know more, but are left empty. The killing horror movie stereotypes thing was fun at first but by the end of the volume I kept checking how much was left and was just ready for it to be over. Sorry to say I wont be continuing with this series because I just read 10 of the same issue and that's more than enough.
There are also some weird art issues. The illustrator seems to change with every issue and they range from quite good and eye catching to distractingly bad. More than once there were perspective issues in which a character's face looked odd and distorted. And one issue had some of the worst line work I've ever seen. The lines were thick and uneven and made everything look wonky and out of focus.
This all being said, if you're looking for something mindless to pick up one issue at a time, this might be for you. I really did like some of the nods to my favorite movies and Vlad is a truly enjoyable character. But this one is not for bingeing.
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November 16, 2022
Obsessed with this series. It is my second time reading this Omnibus and I love it so much. If you are a slasher fan then this is an absolute must for a graphic novel experience. It is fun and entertaining and there are some meta elements at play, too. Lots of violence and humor... and all of the hacking and slashing to satiate any slasher lover's desires. Cassie Hack is an icon and it's always fun to watch her hunt down slasher villains!
June 28, 2020
I thought this was pretty awesome. If you're a fan of slasher films this should be right up your alley. The premise is Cassie Hack is the "Final Girl", and she has a Frankenstein Monster type assistant by the name of Vlad. The two of them hunt down slashers whenever they pop up. It's sorta like Supernatural if Sam and Dean Winchester were a monster and a really hot chick.
So in this universe Slashers are a type of monster just like a vampire or a werewolf. They live only to kill, nudity and promiscuity upset them, and they are notoriously hard to kill, and as a general rule return from the dead if you aren't really sure they're finished. And each has their own gimmick, similar to Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Michael Meyers, etc.
This volume includes all of the early adventures of the pair and even features two crossovers as they battle Evil Ernie and Chucky.
I just thought this was really entertaining and while I hate to admit it the art is really sexy. Cassie Hack is just a hella hot goth chick. But this isn't strictly cheesecake, as the story just really flows well. Some of the series is tongue in cheek, which is good considering the material is very dark.
I would recommend this for any fans of horror comics, slasher movies, hot goth females, or fans of sexy comic art.
So in this universe Slashers are a type of monster just like a vampire or a werewolf. They live only to kill, nudity and promiscuity upset them, and they are notoriously hard to kill, and as a general rule return from the dead if you aren't really sure they're finished. And each has their own gimmick, similar to Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Michael Meyers, etc.
This volume includes all of the early adventures of the pair and even features two crossovers as they battle Evil Ernie and Chucky.
I just thought this was really entertaining and while I hate to admit it the art is really sexy. Cassie Hack is just a hella hot goth chick. But this isn't strictly cheesecake, as the story just really flows well. Some of the series is tongue in cheek, which is good considering the material is very dark.
I would recommend this for any fans of horror comics, slasher movies, hot goth females, or fans of sexy comic art.
June 19, 2017
Not very good. Very "Buffy the vampire slayer".
January 9, 2015
While some stories are a little bit "meh" the overall theme, characters, and pacing make this very enjoyable. Especially all the cameos! If you're a horror buff check this one out, super cheap on Amazon too!
August 22, 2016
I picked up a library copy of Hack Slash Omnibus Volume 1. Someone had recently returned it, and I couldn’t help but notice the striking cover: a girl, possibly in her late teens to mid-twenties, staring fiercely with her intense blue eyes at something, her shoulder length straight dark brown hair covering her right eye. And yes, she is wearing revealing clothing, but there’s nothing uncomfortably sexual about it (from my subjective perspective) – the girl, whose name is Cassandra Hack, is sitting in a position that isn’t very ladylike. Her legs are spread, knees up, and her right arm rests on her right leg, this hand holding baseball bat that hangs downward with the words Kiss It etched on it. She’s wearing plaid knee-high socks, a black pleated skirt with a belt of steel with the emblem FaQ at the buckle. Her midriff shows, and she’s wearing a short, netted halter-top. Her arms are covered up to the elbows with long striped tube socks, which she has made into fingerless gloves. Her white skin is tan and she looks fit and strong. She’s wearing black combat boots. Next to her right leg is the head of an evil looking clown, its mouth still clenched on a cigar. It seems that she might have been the one who beheaded that clown – although it’s hard to tell if she reveling in her prowess or pissed off that she was the one who had to do it. The backdrop has the words HACK/SLASH in uneven lines written in bold red and maroon. This looks so f&^%$#@* cool, I thought to myself when I first saw this cover. Why? The illusion is that this girl seems to not give a sh*# about anything, except what she has to do to survive. But, this doesn’t explain her clothing. Many people might type this clothing as “goth”. I’ve never personally connected to that particular subculture but I’ve always been intrigued. Here’s how I’m reading this cover photo - Cassandra’s fashion in particular. Her skirt and knee-highs seem a nod to the Catholic school uniform of a rebel, someone who wasn’t (and still, it seems, isn’t) taking all the religious lessons seriously, for whatever reason. The boots may signify that she’s ready for a fight and lots of travel, and the arms covered by tube socks are not decorative – they are possibly there to protect her arms from cuts and scratches, and the bat she’s holding may be obvious - to attack whatever bad and evil things that may come her way. Her top is perhaps that only thing that seems she wore to be stylish. Perhaps she hasn’t given up completely, perhaps she still feels that she can still be a girl. Her makeup suggests this also. The colors are bold, the lines are bold, and I really like this look. I want to know her story.
As for the traditional comic books directed at boys, which feature physically strong men that fight within and outside of themselves for a personal, social, or political plight – this might be a book explicitly aimed at girls, given that it proposes the same idea: an expression of power, the difference being for the opposite sex. Cassie Hack is an outsider, someone who has been made fun of in her youth for being different. Seeley suggests that her difference may arise from her nerdy as well as lower class look. Young Cassie wears hand me down clothes, with the hint of them still being dirty – in the first comics all these panels were colored with a tinge of brown. Young Cassie also has huge eyeglasses a little too big for her face. Her mom is the lunch lady at the school she goes to, and, seeing as her daughter is being harshly teased, it’s this overbearing mother that takes revenge. There is no mention of Cassie’s father. The comics also suggest that Cassie was very shy as child. This story might be applicable to a large audience because of its generalities, but I think it is even more applicable because of how Cassie handles the situation. She becomes self-aware, and instead of conforming to the masses she finds her identity by her choice to do something positive in the world (to kill murderers known as Slashers, which are basically a different form of zombies) in order to save innocent people. Not only does she choose this, but she chooses this without losing her dark and bleak outlook on life, which is expressed in her fashion sense, wry humor, and unaffected personality.
Everything I’ve described above is exquisitely rendered in the artwork. All the suggestions and hints are developed mainly without having to read the dialogue – it’s body language and facial expressions that really set the scenes in Hack/Slash. This trade paperback includes fifteen comic book stories about Cassie and her sidekick named Vlad. Tim Seeley wrote all of the stories, but a different team of artists drew and colored each one. I personally freaking loved this. Each artist was so unique in their renderings of the action and story, and all the characters were so much fun to look at. Anyone would know from “a mile away” what photos belonged to a Hack/Slash story after reading a compilation such as this. That is impressive, because it means that the characters are strong and different. I’m not saying that a person wouldn’t be able to recognize Superman from a mile away, but for an indie comic book, I think it means that Cassie’s style is iconic. The transition from different teams of artists throughout the omnibus was like looking at the same picture through different lenses and/or filters, which is just so, so cool. I believe that other comic books compilations do this, but I’m not sure if it works as powerfully as it does here.
Cassie’s stories kind of run like a series of early Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV shows, with all the camp. Cassie and her monstrous but gentle friend Vlad find out about different mysterious happenings (by seeking them out through the newspaper or TV), and try to solve the mystery of how these events began. Who’s killing all the girls on Spring Break and why? Why are all these people dying in their sleep in some small town? They encounter different people, make friends and enemies, and always end up fighting the Slashers, who are undead victims of crime themselves – but have all died without a peaceful soul. These stories are very descriptive. Seeley does not just build on the main characters, but also expands on the details of their nemeses, which are gleefully ugly and horrific. Cassie, in this series at least, always wins out in the end, though she does have many close calls.
Hack/Slash Omnibus Volume 1 is a perfect start for someone who has never read comics. If the descriptions above seem appealing, do pick this graphic novel up. It easily gives the reader the power of magical thinking, something that comic books are well-known for, where seemingly terrifying and unexplainable happenings and situations become the norm and actually allow the reader to imaginatively relate and put them in a real-world context. The character of Cassie herself allows for magical thinking, teaching that anyone can rise above personal struggles and make something of themselves. This is one of those reads that I will continue to look for until I can’t find it anymore, and then will re-read over again.
"Driven by guilt, and lacking connection to anyone or anyplace, Cassie turned her back on a 'normal' life, and became a hunter of killers. It was on one of these hunts that she met the man known as Vlad, a misshapen, gentle creature that she mistook for a slasher. Vlad became Cassie's traveling companion, offering his fierce, monstrous power to her cause. Together they hunt down and destroy 'slashers'... wherever they may be, whatever form they may take." - from Hack/Slash: Euthanized
As for the traditional comic books directed at boys, which feature physically strong men that fight within and outside of themselves for a personal, social, or political plight – this might be a book explicitly aimed at girls, given that it proposes the same idea: an expression of power, the difference being for the opposite sex. Cassie Hack is an outsider, someone who has been made fun of in her youth for being different. Seeley suggests that her difference may arise from her nerdy as well as lower class look. Young Cassie wears hand me down clothes, with the hint of them still being dirty – in the first comics all these panels were colored with a tinge of brown. Young Cassie also has huge eyeglasses a little too big for her face. Her mom is the lunch lady at the school she goes to, and, seeing as her daughter is being harshly teased, it’s this overbearing mother that takes revenge. There is no mention of Cassie’s father. The comics also suggest that Cassie was very shy as child. This story might be applicable to a large audience because of its generalities, but I think it is even more applicable because of how Cassie handles the situation. She becomes self-aware, and instead of conforming to the masses she finds her identity by her choice to do something positive in the world (to kill murderers known as Slashers, which are basically a different form of zombies) in order to save innocent people. Not only does she choose this, but she chooses this without losing her dark and bleak outlook on life, which is expressed in her fashion sense, wry humor, and unaffected personality.
Everything I’ve described above is exquisitely rendered in the artwork. All the suggestions and hints are developed mainly without having to read the dialogue – it’s body language and facial expressions that really set the scenes in Hack/Slash. This trade paperback includes fifteen comic book stories about Cassie and her sidekick named Vlad. Tim Seeley wrote all of the stories, but a different team of artists drew and colored each one. I personally freaking loved this. Each artist was so unique in their renderings of the action and story, and all the characters were so much fun to look at. Anyone would know from “a mile away” what photos belonged to a Hack/Slash story after reading a compilation such as this. That is impressive, because it means that the characters are strong and different. I’m not saying that a person wouldn’t be able to recognize Superman from a mile away, but for an indie comic book, I think it means that Cassie’s style is iconic. The transition from different teams of artists throughout the omnibus was like looking at the same picture through different lenses and/or filters, which is just so, so cool. I believe that other comic books compilations do this, but I’m not sure if it works as powerfully as it does here.
Cassie’s stories kind of run like a series of early Buffy The Vampire Slayer TV shows, with all the camp. Cassie and her monstrous but gentle friend Vlad find out about different mysterious happenings (by seeking them out through the newspaper or TV), and try to solve the mystery of how these events began. Who’s killing all the girls on Spring Break and why? Why are all these people dying in their sleep in some small town? They encounter different people, make friends and enemies, and always end up fighting the Slashers, who are undead victims of crime themselves – but have all died without a peaceful soul. These stories are very descriptive. Seeley does not just build on the main characters, but also expands on the details of their nemeses, which are gleefully ugly and horrific. Cassie, in this series at least, always wins out in the end, though she does have many close calls.
Hack/Slash Omnibus Volume 1 is a perfect start for someone who has never read comics. If the descriptions above seem appealing, do pick this graphic novel up. It easily gives the reader the power of magical thinking, something that comic books are well-known for, where seemingly terrifying and unexplainable happenings and situations become the norm and actually allow the reader to imaginatively relate and put them in a real-world context. The character of Cassie herself allows for magical thinking, teaching that anyone can rise above personal struggles and make something of themselves. This is one of those reads that I will continue to look for until I can’t find it anymore, and then will re-read over again.
"Driven by guilt, and lacking connection to anyone or anyplace, Cassie turned her back on a 'normal' life, and became a hunter of killers. It was on one of these hunts that she met the man known as Vlad, a misshapen, gentle creature that she mistook for a slasher. Vlad became Cassie's traveling companion, offering his fierce, monstrous power to her cause. Together they hunt down and destroy 'slashers'... wherever they may be, whatever form they may take." - from Hack/Slash: Euthanized
September 12, 2020
Does anyone else think it's weird that you would spell this name like "Hack slash Slash"?
February 3, 2023
Thoroughly enjoyable take on horror, with crossovers with Evil Ernie (from Chaos) and Chucky of Child’s Play fame. A little intense if read quickly enough due to the gore, but it has humor to balance it out and the friendship between the two main characters is endearing.
February 15, 2013
If ever a comic had a very precise target audience, it's Hack/Slash. If you aren't really big into shitty horror movies from the last 30 years, this series will probably leave you scratching your head.
It's true to its source material in that it's not particularly frightening, incredibly violent, and seemingly threatened by sexuality while constantly flaunting sexual imagery. Cassie Hack is the exact sort of male-created heroine I've become exceedingly tiresome. She's empowered purely in the manner that won't threaten a male, horror-obsessed comic book reader. I would suggest that any girl scarred enough by her life to go across the country with a behemoth mentally unstable adult killing subhuman, murderous freaks probably would probably have a more athletic build and less inclination to dress like someone angling for a Suicide Girl photo spread.
I went into this series hoping for a fun mockery of horror conventions, which is generally fertile territory, but Tim Seeley has too much of a slavering affection to really get any digs in on the trite nature of slasher movies.
Guillermo Del Toro once said that most horror makes some sort of statement about the establishment, and horror movies like the kind Hack/Slash base their world on all have a very pro-establishment nature. You get killed by the monster for doing not necessarily immoral things, but things that are societally frowned upon. Without every explicitly stating it, the monsters are brutal moral authorities passing judgment without intermediaries.
While Hack kills them, there's never a sense of any deep humor or perspective in the irony of slashing slashers. At least the show Dexter gets a good joke in every now and then.
It's true to its source material in that it's not particularly frightening, incredibly violent, and seemingly threatened by sexuality while constantly flaunting sexual imagery. Cassie Hack is the exact sort of male-created heroine I've become exceedingly tiresome. She's empowered purely in the manner that won't threaten a male, horror-obsessed comic book reader. I would suggest that any girl scarred enough by her life to go across the country with a behemoth mentally unstable adult killing subhuman, murderous freaks probably would probably have a more athletic build and less inclination to dress like someone angling for a Suicide Girl photo spread.
I went into this series hoping for a fun mockery of horror conventions, which is generally fertile territory, but Tim Seeley has too much of a slavering affection to really get any digs in on the trite nature of slasher movies.
Guillermo Del Toro once said that most horror makes some sort of statement about the establishment, and horror movies like the kind Hack/Slash base their world on all have a very pro-establishment nature. You get killed by the monster for doing not necessarily immoral things, but things that are societally frowned upon. Without every explicitly stating it, the monsters are brutal moral authorities passing judgment without intermediaries.
While Hack kills them, there's never a sense of any deep humor or perspective in the irony of slashing slashers. At least the show Dexter gets a good joke in every now and then.
September 11, 2017
A lot of fun stories. I was surprised how many crossovers are in the first omnibus (Chucky, Evil Ernie,...). I liked episodic approach to this book. It is a nice detour from large arcs that are currently more trendy.
November 19, 2015
This was brilliant, especially the crossover with Chucky from Child's Play!
August 5, 2018
3.5 ⭐️
Gory but interesting.
Gory but interesting.
August 7, 2013
Hack Slash omnibus 1 brings together the first nine comics of the series starting with Euthanized, where Vlad and Cassie must battle Bobby, a vengeful, undead slasher with the ability to control dead animals. Bobby was revealed to have been a mentally handicapped veterinary assistant accidentally murdered by the vet's fiancé. This issue has a brief recollection of Cassie's history, daughter of an eccentric dinner lady. Her mother watched as Cassie was bullied through school until she could take no more, students started to disappear and were amusingly served up with salad and fries. When confronted mother Hack committed suicide by plunging her head into a boiling pot of gravy leaving Cassie an orphan.
Girls Gone Dead is the second issue and our slasher hunters battle Father Wrath, a slasher being controlled by a devoutly crazy Catholic schoolgirl, Laura Lochs. Father Wrath was a traveling Baptist preacher, who was murdered by his nephew when he tried to sexually assault him. The revived Wrath emerged as an evil killer, Laura controls him with a book of spells and the ending brings an epic struggle between the two massive guys Vlad and Wrath while Cassie uses fire in her fight with Laura.
The third outing is Comic Book Carnage set at a comic book convention.
Vlad and Cassie must deal with a human murderer, Lloyd Sundermann with a parasitic twin, Jimmy. The murderer and his brother go after Steve Niles, Scottie Young, and Robert Kirkman, real-life comic book creators, and murder them for being contrived overlords of evil.
The Final Revenge of Evil Ernie is the fourth comic, Cassie and Vlad battle Evil Ernie and smiley, who kidnap women and turn them into undead zombie slaves. Evil Ernie falls in love with Cassie and after she is fatally wounded, Ernie sacrifices his life to revive her, and is reborn in a new reality. The artwork takes a serious dive here as the artist attempts a Ben Templesmith style but unfortunately fails, Cassie puts on serious amounts of weight in some panels and in others looks normal again, its really not good.
Land of Lost Toys is the fifth comic and Cassie and Vlad battle an undead child, Ashley Guthrie, with the ability to kill people in their dreams. They find out his mother killed him (because he was a horrible child), but he was reborn in the dream plane and uses toys to murder his victims. Cassie kills Ashley, but his spirit possesses the teddy bear his mother smothered him with. Again the artwork is suspect as the depictions of both our protagonists differ from panel to panel.
Slice Hard is the next comic after a small section of trailers, several slashers (Hibachi Devil, Acid Angel, Mortimer Strick, X-O, and Waking Man), are held prisoner by a company run by Emily Christy, a former Miss America, that wants to use the slashers to develop anti-aging remedies. If a captured Cassie agrees to help recapture the freed slashers, the company promises to use plastic surgery on Vlad. Ashley from Land of Lost Toys, now in a stuffed bear body, is the cause of all their problems as he breaks in and frees the slashers, who go after the director and Cassie and Vlad. In the process, all the slashers are defeated, but Christy uses the "slasher formula" on herself, becoming a new Miss America slasher.
The final outing is Hack Slash Vs. Chucky and this is definitely the pick of the bunch as Cassie and Vlad take on the demon doll. This serves as a sequel to "Girls Gone Dead". Laura Lochs uses an ancient voodoo relic stolen from Chucky to body swap out of her currently, well done to burnt body and into the body of none other than Vlad. It then falls upon Cassie, Vlad (Now in Laura Loch's body) and Chucky to end Loch's evil plans before she can kill several of Cassie's close friends, all having been captured and used in Laura's sick game of revenge. Cassie must also deal with the unlikely and deadly partnership with Chucky, whom she knows all too well can turn and try to kill her at any given moment. The artwork is fantastic as the little demon doll Chucky looks completely maniacal, evil and crazy, complete with a stitched together face.
After Chucky is loads of cracking artwork showing the progression of the drawings, profiles of the characters etc and this really adds something to the overall package.
Really enjoyed this some cracking characters, plenty of blood and gore, a few humorous moments and two cool antiheroes, if you like the slasher movies from the 80's Halloween, Nightmare on Elm street, Friday 13th and Childs Play this pays worthy homage to the genre and doesn't take itself too seriously. The stories and the majority of the artwork are definitely worth 5 stars.
Girls Gone Dead is the second issue and our slasher hunters battle Father Wrath, a slasher being controlled by a devoutly crazy Catholic schoolgirl, Laura Lochs. Father Wrath was a traveling Baptist preacher, who was murdered by his nephew when he tried to sexually assault him. The revived Wrath emerged as an evil killer, Laura controls him with a book of spells and the ending brings an epic struggle between the two massive guys Vlad and Wrath while Cassie uses fire in her fight with Laura.
The third outing is Comic Book Carnage set at a comic book convention.
Vlad and Cassie must deal with a human murderer, Lloyd Sundermann with a parasitic twin, Jimmy. The murderer and his brother go after Steve Niles, Scottie Young, and Robert Kirkman, real-life comic book creators, and murder them for being contrived overlords of evil.
The Final Revenge of Evil Ernie is the fourth comic, Cassie and Vlad battle Evil Ernie and smiley, who kidnap women and turn them into undead zombie slaves. Evil Ernie falls in love with Cassie and after she is fatally wounded, Ernie sacrifices his life to revive her, and is reborn in a new reality. The artwork takes a serious dive here as the artist attempts a Ben Templesmith style but unfortunately fails, Cassie puts on serious amounts of weight in some panels and in others looks normal again, its really not good.
Land of Lost Toys is the fifth comic and Cassie and Vlad battle an undead child, Ashley Guthrie, with the ability to kill people in their dreams. They find out his mother killed him (because he was a horrible child), but he was reborn in the dream plane and uses toys to murder his victims. Cassie kills Ashley, but his spirit possesses the teddy bear his mother smothered him with. Again the artwork is suspect as the depictions of both our protagonists differ from panel to panel.
Slice Hard is the next comic after a small section of trailers, several slashers (Hibachi Devil, Acid Angel, Mortimer Strick, X-O, and Waking Man), are held prisoner by a company run by Emily Christy, a former Miss America, that wants to use the slashers to develop anti-aging remedies. If a captured Cassie agrees to help recapture the freed slashers, the company promises to use plastic surgery on Vlad. Ashley from Land of Lost Toys, now in a stuffed bear body, is the cause of all their problems as he breaks in and frees the slashers, who go after the director and Cassie and Vlad. In the process, all the slashers are defeated, but Christy uses the "slasher formula" on herself, becoming a new Miss America slasher.
The final outing is Hack Slash Vs. Chucky and this is definitely the pick of the bunch as Cassie and Vlad take on the demon doll. This serves as a sequel to "Girls Gone Dead". Laura Lochs uses an ancient voodoo relic stolen from Chucky to body swap out of her currently, well done to burnt body and into the body of none other than Vlad. It then falls upon Cassie, Vlad (Now in Laura Loch's body) and Chucky to end Loch's evil plans before she can kill several of Cassie's close friends, all having been captured and used in Laura's sick game of revenge. Cassie must also deal with the unlikely and deadly partnership with Chucky, whom she knows all too well can turn and try to kill her at any given moment. The artwork is fantastic as the little demon doll Chucky looks completely maniacal, evil and crazy, complete with a stitched together face.
After Chucky is loads of cracking artwork showing the progression of the drawings, profiles of the characters etc and this really adds something to the overall package.
Really enjoyed this some cracking characters, plenty of blood and gore, a few humorous moments and two cool antiheroes, if you like the slasher movies from the 80's Halloween, Nightmare on Elm street, Friday 13th and Childs Play this pays worthy homage to the genre and doesn't take itself too seriously. The stories and the majority of the artwork are definitely worth 5 stars.
October 22, 2012
There's occasional hints of humour or parody, but they're hardly enough of a spark to make this an enjoyable meta-ride. In fact, they seem timid somehow, that Seeley isn't really committed to the joke, but wants to try just the same.
Plenty of recurring slashers just like in our favourite horror series, and frequent little sub-plot fragments involving (just barely) the supporting cast. None of it very consequential, just plot fluff that blows away again, like in most weekly tv shows.
Even with the over-arching epic stories that span each of the two omnibus's, and even though Cassie and Vlad seem to love and lose and carry those lessons/scars, it still seems like there's no real growth in this story for our characters. They rebound eventually to exactly who they were when we started following them, with no real aging. It feels like the characters are just stuck at their same level forever - like I'm playing a video game and never getting the satisfaction of progressive upgraded weapons, powers or attributes. I am not looking for Cass to get stronger or a bigger knife - but something to reward my readership other than "bringing back old villains because they never die".
I think I'm finally unsatisfied with this storytelling trope of horror/slashers, because Seeley never seems to improve. Compare this book over dozens of issues to Powell's Goon or Mignola's Hellboy - those stories felt richer and more rewarding as they progressed, in ways this hasn't (at least, not yet).
The exception to my disappointment in vol 3 is the Living Corpse story by Ken Haeser. Genuinely funny and irreverent.
Plenty of recurring slashers just like in our favourite horror series, and frequent little sub-plot fragments involving (just barely) the supporting cast. None of it very consequential, just plot fluff that blows away again, like in most weekly tv shows.
Even with the over-arching epic stories that span each of the two omnibus's, and even though Cassie and Vlad seem to love and lose and carry those lessons/scars, it still seems like there's no real growth in this story for our characters. They rebound eventually to exactly who they were when we started following them, with no real aging. It feels like the characters are just stuck at their same level forever - like I'm playing a video game and never getting the satisfaction of progressive upgraded weapons, powers or attributes. I am not looking for Cass to get stronger or a bigger knife - but something to reward my readership other than "bringing back old villains because they never die".
I think I'm finally unsatisfied with this storytelling trope of horror/slashers, because Seeley never seems to improve. Compare this book over dozens of issues to Powell's Goon or Mignola's Hellboy - those stories felt richer and more rewarding as they progressed, in ways this hasn't (at least, not yet).
The exception to my disappointment in vol 3 is the Living Corpse story by Ken Haeser. Genuinely funny and irreverent.
November 3, 2017
3.5
World: Many artists and many different takes of Cassie, some are gorgeous, some not so much. The world building is the strongest thing in this book. The characters, the cameos the meta text is all pretty fantastic. I'm not a slasher fan but wow this world is a world I want to spend more time in.
Story: This is indeed slasher Buffy and that's a wonderful thing indeed. The cameos made the basic stories more than what they are. The pacing is basic and expected but yeah it was fun. Some characters I cared for more, some not so much. I will say that the overarching plot of Cassie and Vlad really made me invested in the book. I want to go slasher hunting more with them.
Characters: Cassie and Vlad as first seems very basic and cliché but the more Seeley dives into these characters the more they are fully fleshed and it's fantastic. I love their dynamic. I also loved the cameos they were laugh out loud and also pretty awesome. I love monster hunting books and this book has it, yes they are slasher which is not my thing but still it's good.
I was surprised. I enjoyed it. It was good popcorn fun.
Onward to the next book!
World: Many artists and many different takes of Cassie, some are gorgeous, some not so much. The world building is the strongest thing in this book. The characters, the cameos the meta text is all pretty fantastic. I'm not a slasher fan but wow this world is a world I want to spend more time in.
Story: This is indeed slasher Buffy and that's a wonderful thing indeed. The cameos made the basic stories more than what they are. The pacing is basic and expected but yeah it was fun. Some characters I cared for more, some not so much. I will say that the overarching plot of Cassie and Vlad really made me invested in the book. I want to go slasher hunting more with them.
Characters: Cassie and Vlad as first seems very basic and cliché but the more Seeley dives into these characters the more they are fully fleshed and it's fantastic. I love their dynamic. I also loved the cameos they were laugh out loud and also pretty awesome. I love monster hunting books and this book has it, yes they are slasher which is not my thing but still it's good.
I was surprised. I enjoyed it. It was good popcorn fun.
Onward to the next book!
July 19, 2013
This book is either a hit or miss depending on if you like violent comic book action and horror movies. I've read the entire run of the series and I loved it. I found Cassie Hack to be a likable character that grows on you over time. The first Omnibus is a collection of the one shot's that was first used when Hack/Slash came out. Which later went on to become a monthly series as you find out in later volumes.
Cassie and Vlad travel across the U.S. in search of slashers who they hunt down and kill. This is the premise of the entire series. Later this becomes more layered as you find out more about Cassie and Vlad's pasts. There is a lot of violence and blood spilling in this comic. But that's the whole point of it of course. If you like slasher movies, than I think this is worth picking up. If you like a strong female character. Than again I think this is worth picking up. Because that is exactly what Cassie Hack is. A strong female character that goes out and kicks a lot of undead slasher ass.
Cassie and Vlad travel across the U.S. in search of slashers who they hunt down and kill. This is the premise of the entire series. Later this becomes more layered as you find out more about Cassie and Vlad's pasts. There is a lot of violence and blood spilling in this comic. But that's the whole point of it of course. If you like slasher movies, than I think this is worth picking up. If you like a strong female character. Than again I think this is worth picking up. Because that is exactly what Cassie Hack is. A strong female character that goes out and kicks a lot of undead slasher ass.
June 7, 2015
This is a super fun series that takes my love of slasher movie, hunters of the macabre and supernatural and rolls it's into one neat little package! The main character Cassie Hack is an awesome, super-violent goth chick with a penchant for bashing in the skulls of resident psychopaths. Vlad is her huge and moderately deformed partner who watches her back and provides muscle when needed. Another thing I like about this series is the cameos. Scottie Young, Robert Kirkman, Chucky(Charles Lee Ray), Evil Ernie, and Messy Stench round out the list both fictional and nonfictional cameos, and I think that's pretty cool!
March 22, 2016
I can't believe that I just now got into Hack/Slash as it is such a fun book.
I love our main character and her backup ain't so bad himself.
I was so excited reading through this from one issue to the next.
That being said, this is quite the hodgepodge, so not all stories inside are created equal. Most of them are really fun, but I wasn't a huge fan of the Evil Ernie one and some of the shorts were just OK, dropping this down from 5 stars to four.
However, Tim Seeley is quickly becoming one of my favorite comic book writers and I'm really excited to dig into the next for Omnibu as well as his other work.
I love our main character and her backup ain't so bad himself.
I was so excited reading through this from one issue to the next.
That being said, this is quite the hodgepodge, so not all stories inside are created equal. Most of them are really fun, but I wasn't a huge fan of the Evil Ernie one and some of the shorts were just OK, dropping this down from 5 stars to four.
However, Tim Seeley is quickly becoming one of my favorite comic book writers and I'm really excited to dig into the next for Omnibu as well as his other work.
December 5, 2014
In Cassie's universe, Slashers are real. Hating all that is good and innocent, these monsters rise from the dead to lay waste to their preferred subset, and the only thing standing in the way is a girl and her giant lumbering friend. Fun and irreverent, violent and bizarre. Plus, I have a soft spot for the goth girls of the comic world.
March 23, 2019
A really strong start for those into B horror movies, already or making their way into comics. There are so many things to like about this comic: The art, the stories are fun, the characters are basic and stereotypical (as they should be for the genre). This is by far, by far the best part of this comic series. Highly recommended for those of this particular sort.
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