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 fiance. This issue has a 4 page origin for Cassie, whose mother's backstory as a killer and slasher are yet to be expanded upon.
Tim 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.
A pair of slasher horror villains who work together to hunt down other slasher horror villains out of some twisted, skewed sense of hateful justice. Or maybe just an excuse to have fun brutally murdering things while trying to morally justify it? Eh, semantics.
In this story, a gun slinging goth chick with an appetite for bloody vengeance named Cassie and a deformed masked dual-bladed slaughterer of the undead named Vlad team up to hunt down a depressed necromancer who reanimates the corpses of abandoned animals to seek revenge on those who have wronged them.
Just the type of cheesy retro slasher story I’ve been in the mood for lately. Channels all the fun stuff about 80’s slasher horror movies while playfully poking fun at them at the same time. I like the satire, the wicked character designs and gruesome gory action. The story behind Cassie and the main villain is also surprisingly sympathetic given the morbid and ridiculous tone of the series.
Never read a Hack/Slash comic before, so I thought it was best to read them in chronological order, starting with the origin stories of the two protagonists. I’m definitely going to be reading more of them.