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This is the story of
Cassandra Hack, a young nerdy woman whose own
insults and tormented high school life led her
tortured obese mother to seek revenge on all of the
young girls who made Cassandra's life difficult and
painful. Cassandra lived to see her mother become a
classic slasher, a woman called the lunch lady who
hung and mutilated and devoured these girls and it
was up to Cassie to bring her down once and for all.
Now that Tim Seely and "Hack/Slash" have moved from
Devil's Due to the higher profile Image comics to
stand alongside the greats like The Walking Dead and
Invincible, Seely and co. are working backward now
to tell the story of Cassie Hack and how she became
Cassie Hack and learned to hunt down the undead
killers known as "Slashers." As is made clear here
like the original series run, there's a difference
between serial killers (Dahmer) and Slashers (Jason
Voorhes) and Cassie is about to find that out when
she hunts a stripe sweatered grinning slasher who
hides in the corn fields striking down kids who he
thinks will touch his daughter. As expected Seely
pretty much has to start all over again because
while Devil's Due is definitely an excellent little
label, they're not as well known as they should be
and people are going to be starting fresh on
"Hack/Slash" since the series has been mainly just a
cult underground title. Now with potentially high
mainstream success in the way of Kirkman's series,
and an impending movie deal, "Hack/Slash" has a lot
of ground to cover and Seely is on the right track
with this prequel of Hack's story. |
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Even us hardcore
fans of the title know very little about what
happened in between Hack's murder of her slasher
mother and her discovery of her best friend Vlad
in a basement, and now we're beginning to see
how she learned to deal with slashers
originally, her methods, her hunting tricks, her
strategies and how she came to grow in to her
shell from an awkward young outcast in to a
bonafide living ghost who went on to stalk the
stalkers and hunt the predators. Daniel
Leister's art is wonderful as Cassie is more
often than not depicted as this girl who is a
direct reflection of her mother Delilah while
also restraining her urges to kill and become a
spawn of pure evil. The climax of issue one is
quite heartbreaking as expected as Cassie paves
her way as a hunter by completely cutting off
all ties with her past and foster family and
goes out with simply a knife to find the killer
in the fields awaiting her entrance, as Cassie
will eventually exit as a new woman, a woman who
battles all forms of evil. |
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