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A review by villyidol
Hack/Slash Omnibus, Volume 1 by Tim Seeley
3.0
Probably only for slasher fans and horny boys that want to see a lot of tits and ass in their comics.
Cassie Hack and her huge and deformed buddy Vlad are hunting down slashers that were killed at some point already but returned from the dead to wreak more havoc. Like Cassie’s mom, who was slaughtering little school girls that were mean to little Cassie before eventually Mommy herself was killed by Cassie. Though that happened in the prequel [b: Hack/Slash: My first Maniac|9573979|Hack/Slash My First Maniac|Tim Seeley|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347976911s/9573979.jpg|14460839].
This first omnibus collects several one-shots that were included in who knows which volumes of the series. Sometimes the publishing history of comics is rather confusing.
The one-shots collected in this one are the following:
Artists keep changing throughout the book which leads to a constant change in style that didn’t bother me. On the contrary, I found it quite interesting. Though the quality was inevitably fluctuating as well.
For the ones interested in who has done what exactly:
The writing has all been done by Tim Seeley though. And there’s a certain consistency in tone. Slasher movies are usually funny or scary or both. And this one very much falls on the funny side, though it isn‘t always on target. If you’re looking for scary, look somewhere else.
The stories are told chronologically as far as I can tell and there are some recurring characters and themes. Though they are still very much self-contained. You could pick up any of those without missing something significant.
The one I really recommend is Hack/Slash vs. Chucky, as that one has been tremendous fun.
The one that stood out in terms of the art was Hack/Slash vs. Evil Ernie. This one looked really interesting and very different from the rest. I liked that style a lot. But I thought the story was rather boring.
Hack/Slash: Trailers had some really good moments and even one story that was told in the form of a poem. But I can’t really see why anyone would buy this one, since it tells several stories in a single issue comic, which makes them very very short. And most are not even complete. They’re really just trailers. Even though they were fun.
This omnibus is free on kindle unlimited (at least in Germany). So if you’re fond of slasher flicks you might want to pick it up, read the stories you like and skip the rest. It isn’t necessary to read the whole thing. Though I did.
Overall this was wavering around three stars for most of the time. Some stories were average, some were decent and the one with Chucky was really good.
The art, even though inconsistent, was consistently better than it was in the prequel, which I thought wasn’t very nice to look at.
As a whole this was a pleasant surprise after the somewhat underwhelming [b: Hack/Slash: My first Maniac|9573979|Hack/Slash My First Maniac|Tim Seeley|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347976911s/9573979.jpg|14460839]. But the moments in which it was really good were few and far between, to be honest.
Cassie Hack and her huge and deformed buddy Vlad are hunting down slashers that were killed at some point already but returned from the dead to wreak more havoc. Like Cassie’s mom, who was slaughtering little school girls that were mean to little Cassie before eventually Mommy herself was killed by Cassie. Though that happened in the prequel [b: Hack/Slash: My first Maniac|9573979|Hack/Slash My First Maniac|Tim Seeley|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347976911s/9573979.jpg|14460839].
This first omnibus collects several one-shots that were included in who knows which volumes of the series. Sometimes the publishing history of comics is rather confusing.
The one-shots collected in this one are the following:
Artists keep changing throughout the book which leads to a constant change in style that didn’t bother me. On the contrary, I found it quite interesting. Though the quality was inevitably fluctuating as well.
For the ones interested in who has done what exactly:
The writing has all been done by Tim Seeley though. And there’s a certain consistency in tone. Slasher movies are usually funny or scary or both. And this one very much falls on the funny side, though it isn‘t always on target. If you’re looking for scary, look somewhere else.
The stories are told chronologically as far as I can tell and there are some recurring characters and themes. Though they are still very much self-contained. You could pick up any of those without missing something significant.
The one I really recommend is Hack/Slash vs. Chucky, as that one has been tremendous fun.
The one that stood out in terms of the art was Hack/Slash vs. Evil Ernie. This one looked really interesting and very different from the rest. I liked that style a lot. But I thought the story was rather boring.
Hack/Slash: Trailers had some really good moments and even one story that was told in the form of a poem. But I can’t really see why anyone would buy this one, since it tells several stories in a single issue comic, which makes them very very short. And most are not even complete. They’re really just trailers. Even though they were fun.
This omnibus is free on kindle unlimited (at least in Germany). So if you’re fond of slasher flicks you might want to pick it up, read the stories you like and skip the rest. It isn’t necessary to read the whole thing. Though I did.
Overall this was wavering around three stars for most of the time. Some stories were average, some were decent and the one with Chucky was really good.
The art, even though inconsistent, was consistently better than it was in the prequel, which I thought wasn’t very nice to look at.
As a whole this was a pleasant surprise after the somewhat underwhelming [b: Hack/Slash: My first Maniac|9573979|Hack/Slash My First Maniac|Tim Seeley|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1347976911s/9573979.jpg|14460839]. But the moments in which it was really good were few and far between, to be honest.