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Hack/Slash #12
Hack/Slash Volume 12: Dark Sides
On a trip back to Chicago, Vlad encounters his extended family, a mob of inbred cannibals; while Cat Curio takes the stage in a solo adventure. Then, Cassie and Vlad feel the toll of a slasher who can come back every few minutes. This volume collects acclaimed issues written by guest stars Juston Jordan (Luthor Strode), James Lowder, Michael Moreci, and Steve Seeley (Hoax Hunters), as well as the rare crossover with Mercy Sparx. Collects Hack/Slash Volume 2 #16-19, and Hack/Slash vs. Mercy Sparx.
160 pages, Paperback
First published April 16, 2013
About the author
Justin Jordan
529 books100 followersJustin Jordan is an American comic book writer. He is known for writing and co-creating The Strange Talent of Luther Strode, Spread, Dead Body Road, Deep State, Dark Gods and Savage Things. He has also written Green Lantern: New Guardians, Superboy, Deathstroke and Team 7 for DC Comics and the relaunch of Shadowman for Valiant Entertainment.
In 2012, he was nominated for the Harvey Award for Most Promising New Talent.
In 2012, he was nominated for the Harvey Award for Most Promising New Talent.
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August 10, 2018
An okay read. So I got this as a gift the other day, technically I have only read volumes 1 and 2 of the original Hack/Slash series, but these standard volumes are becoming so hard to find that beggars can't be choosers! So this book like the other volumes I've read is filled with different short stories, all of them only being one or two issues long.
The first story delves deeper into Vlad's backstory where we see, where he originally came from. I liked this one a lot, as we get to see more character development, and was definitely the most emotional story of the volume. The artwork for this story was decent.
Next we have the famous Cat and Pooch, who I see some of my friends here on GR adore! They also appeared recently in the new Hack/Slash: Resurrection #7. Unfortunately I couldn't really get into these characters in either stories, I don't know what it is. The story in this volume just wasn't that interesting and the characters of Cat and Pooch don't really click with me.
Then we have the story, where Cassie and Vlad have to fight a Slasher who can regenerate and basically can't die. This was definitely the most fun story in the volume, I liked the style in which the story was told, and it overall is the cheesy dark comedy type stories that I love to read from this series!
The final story is a crossover, which I generally love to see in Hack/Slash! Only this time Cassie and Vlad team up with Mercy Sparx? (Who I seriously have never heard of). The story for this was fine, but it definitely added to the weaker stories of this volume. I was reading this one last night in bed, and I had a hard time reading Mercy Sparx's dialogue; when she's normal, her dialogue is fine to read, but when shes in Demon mode I guess, her dialogue bubbles are black with red writing, which made it really annoying and hard to read, I get what they were trying to do, but if i can't read her dialogue, I can't connect with her at all!
Overall this was an okay volume. I am grateful to have another volume from the original series, but this was definitely one of the weaker volumes since none of these stories were written by Tim Seeley. I still recommend at least two of the stories in this volume to Hack/slash fans!
The first story delves deeper into Vlad's backstory where we see, where he originally came from. I liked this one a lot, as we get to see more character development, and was definitely the most emotional story of the volume. The artwork for this story was decent.
Next we have the famous Cat and Pooch, who I see some of my friends here on GR adore! They also appeared recently in the new Hack/Slash: Resurrection #7. Unfortunately I couldn't really get into these characters in either stories, I don't know what it is. The story in this volume just wasn't that interesting and the characters of Cat and Pooch don't really click with me.
Then we have the story, where Cassie and Vlad have to fight a Slasher who can regenerate and basically can't die. This was definitely the most fun story in the volume, I liked the style in which the story was told, and it overall is the cheesy dark comedy type stories that I love to read from this series!
The final story is a crossover, which I generally love to see in Hack/Slash! Only this time Cassie and Vlad team up with Mercy Sparx? (Who I seriously have never heard of). The story for this was fine, but it definitely added to the weaker stories of this volume. I was reading this one last night in bed, and I had a hard time reading Mercy Sparx's dialogue; when she's normal, her dialogue is fine to read, but when shes in Demon mode I guess, her dialogue bubbles are black with red writing, which made it really annoying and hard to read, I get what they were trying to do, but if i can't read her dialogue, I can't connect with her at all!
Overall this was an okay volume. I am grateful to have another volume from the original series, but this was definitely one of the weaker volumes since none of these stories were written by Tim Seeley. I still recommend at least two of the stories in this volume to Hack/slash fans!
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