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Hazed
Casual sex. Eating Disorders. Bizarre hazing rituals. All horrible, slanderous stereotypes associated with sorority sisters. And all sadly true. Modern sorority life deserves a serious, sensitive and mature depiction. Thankfully, that's not what HAZED is about. HAZED is a dark comedy about three young girls' perilous journey through the world of sororities and eating disorders. From the creator of the critically acclaimed GROUNDED, HAZED is to comics what "Heathers" and "Mean Girls" are to film, only smarter, meaner and funnier.
170 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 29, 2008
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Mark Sable
90 books31 followersMark Sable is a writer for stage, screen, television and comics.
He is most noted as the writer/creator of the comics GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, GROUNDED, FEARLESS and HAZED for Image Comics and UNTHINKABLE for Boom! Studios.
Mark has worked on WHAT IF? SPIDER-MAN: DARK REIGN for Marvel Comic and SUPERGIRL, TEEN TITANS: COLD CASE, TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: CYBORG and TWO-FACE: YEAR ONE for DC Comics. He has contributed to Image's COMIC BOOK TATTOO, POPGUN and 24/7 anthologies.
He is also the only person ever to work for both Charlie Rose and Howard Stern.
Mark's most recent works include GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES for Image Comics and RIFT RAIDERS, the launch book for Kickstart Comics.
Both UNTHINKABLE and HAZED were optioned as feature films.
Upcoming books include DECOY and BLUE SKY for Kickstart.
He is most noted as the writer/creator of the comics GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES, GROUNDED, FEARLESS and HAZED for Image Comics and UNTHINKABLE for Boom! Studios.
Mark has worked on WHAT IF? SPIDER-MAN: DARK REIGN for Marvel Comic and SUPERGIRL, TEEN TITANS: COLD CASE, TEEN TITANS SPOTLIGHT: CYBORG and TWO-FACE: YEAR ONE for DC Comics. He has contributed to Image's COMIC BOOK TATTOO, POPGUN and 24/7 anthologies.
He is also the only person ever to work for both Charlie Rose and Howard Stern.
Mark's most recent works include GRAVEYARD OF EMPIRES for Image Comics and RIFT RAIDERS, the launch book for Kickstart Comics.
Both UNTHINKABLE and HAZED were optioned as feature films.
Upcoming books include DECOY and BLUE SKY for Kickstart.
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March 17, 2013
The premise sounded appealing, but I stopped after the first chapter. The art style is appealing but often unclear, and doesn't always go hand in hand with the writing. The main offender, though, is the story itself. Characters appear to have been written almost entirely from mob mentality, where every woman is a dopey airhead and the men are violent, slavering sexual predators. (Bonus points: The lesbian looks like a man. Awesome!) All in all, the ever-present cynicism in this book is unpleasant, oppressive, and described a world I wanted to run screaming from as fast as humanly possible. Avoid, avoid, avoid.
March 14, 2015
This graphic novel looked like it was going to be fun - the premise seemed like a feminist freshman wanting to take down the deeply corrupted Greek system at her new school. What actually followed was confusing at best, contrived and insulting at worst.
January 31, 2015
This book was a lot like Mean Girls, and had some actual laugh out loud moments. The art was really great and the story was fun (and rough at times. This goes a few places I definitely was not expecting). The only problem I had with this book, and this could be my fault as a reader since I read this really late, was that I got lost a couple of times. The story shifted 3 or 4 times and it felt like pages were missing to transition between events.
January 16, 2021
Shining through at points is a real, dark dissection of the harm caused by toxic gender roles and performative, selfish activism, but the whole thing falls flat on its face by the end. The story is pretty poorly paced, with characters and their relationships seemingly coming out of nowhere, so that undercuts the themes somewhat, but the worst two parts of this book, for me, are much more specific.
The first is pretty minor, but really showed up the authors for a level of hypocrisy that undercuts the overall message, and that's the character of josh. He seems to exist only as a "nice guy" insert without any kind of the criticism or self reflection needed to make that character work in this story, especially since he has clear parallels to illiana at the beginning of the story, who is roundly criticised by the plot for her hypocrisy.
The second is much more major, and that's that the two main characters end up being rewarded for serious consent violations. They pierce condoms for revenge, which is never shown to be a bad thing, and one of them directly rapes a man, who is shown to be incredibly scarred by the event. In the end though, she uses that rape in her revenge on the main villain by having her taken to prison for it, right before the book ends with the two main characters happily smiling at eachother, free from any consequence to their actions. The things the villains did are shown to be caused by the nightmarish system of gender role pressure, but they're punished heavily. While the same can be said of the terrible things the "heroes" of the story do, they get a happy ending without having to face up to what they did. The Greek system might be burned on a pyre at the end of the story, but the sickness at its heart still festers.
Overall I'm actually glad I read this, despite my review. It's deeply, deeply flawed but it made me think, and there are ideas here that don't often get touched upon. I definitely would not recommend it to anyone else though.
The first is pretty minor, but really showed up the authors for a level of hypocrisy that undercuts the overall message, and that's the character of josh. He seems to exist only as a "nice guy" insert without any kind of the criticism or self reflection needed to make that character work in this story, especially since he has clear parallels to illiana at the beginning of the story, who is roundly criticised by the plot for her hypocrisy.
The second is much more major, and that's that the two main characters end up being rewarded for serious consent violations. They pierce condoms for revenge, which is never shown to be a bad thing, and one of them directly rapes a man, who is shown to be incredibly scarred by the event. In the end though, she uses that rape in her revenge on the main villain by having her taken to prison for it, right before the book ends with the two main characters happily smiling at eachother, free from any consequence to their actions. The things the villains did are shown to be caused by the nightmarish system of gender role pressure, but they're punished heavily. While the same can be said of the terrible things the "heroes" of the story do, they get a happy ending without having to face up to what they did. The Greek system might be burned on a pyre at the end of the story, but the sickness at its heart still festers.
Overall I'm actually glad I read this, despite my review. It's deeply, deeply flawed but it made me think, and there are ideas here that don't often get touched upon. I definitely would not recommend it to anyone else though.
November 15, 2019
Neuráželo mě to. Jen mi to nepřišlo nic dobré.
February 10, 2020
Vaguely funny but also hyper problematic—especially because it’s written and inked by two dudes. Most of the jokes felt one-dimensional and fell flat.
September 30, 2020
I have no words. This was just awful. Completely and utterly awful.
January 25, 2022
An average graphic novel using an out-dated trope. What's most disappointing is that I expected more from these creators, both story and art-wise.
May 8, 2022
Dnf not for me. This was a last chance book that was selected from my tbrvatar round. I am glad I discovered its not for me.
January 23, 2025
Wtf???
April 24, 2025
It was alright but the story was all over the place and I wish y he book had page numbers
June 17, 2025
should have looked at the reviews before picking this up
December 5, 2019
Hated it.
May 2, 2015
The back says, “Hazed is to comics what Heathers are to film.” I could not think of a better description.
Both Hazed and Heathers are black comedies that make light of serious subjects like bulimia, alcohol poisoning, surgery, suicide, hazing, and consequences of unsafe sex. I left both thinking, “That was mildly entertaining but what was the point of it?”
It came close to touching on real issues like date rape and women taking control of their sexuality but quickly flipped them to satire rather than make a real point. If you don’t know what’s being joked about going in, you’ll miss it entirely. I like black humor but this was not my style.
Both Hazed and Heathers are black comedies that make light of serious subjects like bulimia, alcohol poisoning, surgery, suicide, hazing, and consequences of unsafe sex. I left both thinking, “That was mildly entertaining but what was the point of it?”
It came close to touching on real issues like date rape and women taking control of their sexuality but quickly flipped them to satire rather than make a real point. If you don’t know what’s being joked about going in, you’ll miss it entirely. I like black humor but this was not my style.
August 30, 2015
“Hazed” is to comics what “Heathers” and “Mean Girls” are to film, zegt de achterflap.
Ik kreeg vooral een gevoel van Life and Loves of a She-Devil meets sorority life maar dan in een zééér light-versie. Feminisme-van-den-Aldi.
En het is allemaal zó ver van mijn bed dat ik er geen minuut in kon komen.
Pijnlijk ongrappig, ook.
Ik kreeg vooral een gevoel van Life and Loves of a She-Devil meets sorority life maar dan in een zééér light-versie. Feminisme-van-den-Aldi.
En het is allemaal zó ver van mijn bed dat ik er geen minuut in kon komen.
Pijnlijk ongrappig, ook.
July 16, 2010
Not at all what I expected.
Started in a good way but then went all over the place.
I liked the art.
Started in a good way but then went all over the place.
I liked the art.
July 18, 2010
The book started out promising, but ended up being all over the place with no overall message.
January 3, 2011
The art is sloppy and makes it difficult to tell characters apart. The story is cliche as are all the characters, and all of its humor is obvious and lowest common denominator.
April 30, 2013
Kind of insulting to both sexes, and the art did not do a good job of clearly depicting the action.
February 5, 2015
Terrible. Insulting. Bad artwork. Ugh.
May 26, 2016
this was really confusing. I couldn't even finish it. it was also nothing like Heathers because the sarcasm (atleast I hope that was what they were going for) fails to translate.
November 26, 2017
The synopsis of this graphic novel sounded interesting but I didn’t like it and I didn’t think it was funny.
May 23, 2021
Boy, this was just really bad. Possibly the worst graphic novel i ever read.
July 7, 2018
While the art was interesting, the story was not. It was contrived and confusing. Not much made sense, and worst of all, a female character raping a male character is considered a joke. Don’t waste your time on this.
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January 26, 2019
I was really disappointed by Hazed. I really like the art style, and the blurb summaries were intriguing. I WANTED to like it. The thing that disturbed me was that a rapist ended up being one of the heroes of the story and showed zero remorse for her actions. While all of the characters were problematic this bothered me the most. That another girl took the fall. This was a mishmash of stereotypes and nothing was properly fleshed out in the story arc. I love satire and this was a horribly failed attempt. I maintain that the art and character design were solid, but the effect was ruined by a writer pandering to a very specific audience with a complete lack of empathy and comprehension towards them.
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