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thekarpuk 's review for:
Hack/Slash Omnibus Vol. 1
by Tim Seeley
If ever a comic had a very precise target audience, it's Hack/Slash. If you aren't really big into shitty horror movies from the last 30 years, this series will probably leave you scratching your head.
It's true to its source material in that it's not particularly frightening, incredibly violent, and seemingly threatened by sexuality while constantly flaunting sexual imagery. Cassie Hack is the exact sort of male-created heroine I've become exceedingly tiresome. She's empowered purely in the manner that won't threaten a male, horror-obsessed comic book reader. I would suggest that any girl scarred enough by her life to go across the country with a behemoth mentally unstable adult killing subhuman, murderous freaks probably would probably have a more athletic build and less inclination to dress like someone angling for a Suicide Girl photo spread.
I went into this series hoping for a fun mockery of horror conventions, which is generally fertile territory, but Tim Seeley has too much of a slavering affection to really get any digs in on the trite nature of slasher movies.
Guillermo Del Toro once said that most horror makes some sort of statement about the establishment, and horror movies like the kind Hack/Slash base their world on all have a very pro-establishment nature. You get killed by the monster for doing not necessarily immoral things, but things that are societally frowned upon. Without every explicitly stating it, the monsters are brutal moral authorities passing judgment without intermediaries.
While Hack kills them, there's never a sense of any deep humor or perspective in the irony of slashing slashers. At least the show Dexter gets a good joke in every now and then.
It's true to its source material in that it's not particularly frightening, incredibly violent, and seemingly threatened by sexuality while constantly flaunting sexual imagery. Cassie Hack is the exact sort of male-created heroine I've become exceedingly tiresome. She's empowered purely in the manner that won't threaten a male, horror-obsessed comic book reader. I would suggest that any girl scarred enough by her life to go across the country with a behemoth mentally unstable adult killing subhuman, murderous freaks probably would probably have a more athletic build and less inclination to dress like someone angling for a Suicide Girl photo spread.
I went into this series hoping for a fun mockery of horror conventions, which is generally fertile territory, but Tim Seeley has too much of a slavering affection to really get any digs in on the trite nature of slasher movies.
Guillermo Del Toro once said that most horror makes some sort of statement about the establishment, and horror movies like the kind Hack/Slash base their world on all have a very pro-establishment nature. You get killed by the monster for doing not necessarily immoral things, but things that are societally frowned upon. Without every explicitly stating it, the monsters are brutal moral authorities passing judgment without intermediaries.
While Hack kills them, there's never a sense of any deep humor or perspective in the irony of slashing slashers. At least the show Dexter gets a good joke in every now and then.