"Hack/Slash" is back! Kind of! With fame there's always a trade off and now with this new four part entry in to the lore (why mini-series when we had a series going before?), we have a new storyline, references to the past trade paperbacks and... Cat Curio. If you don't know who Cat Curio (get it? Like Curiosity killed the cat!) is, imagine Harriet the Spy, except with more resources, much older, and ten times more annoying than Michelle Trachtenberg can manage to be. That said, the series is back in its prime with all of the original supporting characters inserted back for fans, as well as references to the old storylines. We have the Nef dog back as well as Cassie's friends, and Vlad is back to his old tricks again, indulging in man talk with the fellas and trying to figure out what's wrong with Cassie. Around the town of Eminence, teens are being yanked from Lover's Lane and turned in to psychotic acid freak zombies that are giving Vlad and Cassic a run for their money.

Meanwhile Vlad and co. are trying to figure out why Cassie has closed herself off and become a workaholic. There is many a reference made to Georgia, Cassie's stripper lover from the previous series run that is now affecting Cassie and the way she hunts. Whether she's a lesbian or just bisexual is still up the air, but the series intimates that yes, Cassie is very much homosexual. But that doesn't mean she's any less the bad ass as Cassie Hack, the woman who is intent on finding the source of these acid freak zombies who are powered on ungodly speed and strength and can burn skin with their touch. They're also dumbfounded as to why their heads explode upon impact when you smash a bat or cleaver in to them.