Hack/Slash

[PsychoGoatee]

Any Hack/Slash fans on here? The mix of 80s slasher fun, blood and guts, good comedy, solid characterization, drama, it's all there. Easily one of my fav indie comics out there, going strong. Omnibus 4 just hit, it's preeeeetty sexy. Just sayin'.

[Syne]

Not familiar with it, looks interesting though. That dude reminds me a little of Ranxerox. Do you ever get to see beneath the mask?

[Professor Bear]

Is this the comic where the main character had an adventure investigating an existing soft-porn website by becoming a model for it, accompanied by lots of lightboxed pix of her with no clothes on in a Very Special Issue of the comic that came with its own plain brown covering?

While I normally go for stuff that is either completely off the rails or physical proof the creators have given up entirely, this combination of both has never had much of an attraction to me, though I'd be surprised if SBT isn't along shortly to give us an essay on its strengths.

[SmallBlueThing]

Give me a chance, id never heard of it before today.

I will explore further, later.

SBT

[M.I.K.]

Heard of it, haven't read any of it except for a preview of the first issue.

Only other thing I know about it is that there was an internet campaign to have the girl from Warehouse 13 play Hack in a live action version and that she was very much in favour of the idea, apparently already being familiar with the comics.

[Professor Bear]

Give me a chance, id never heard of it before today.

See those pictures?  That is literally everything you need to know about, apart from the time the lady character investigated SuicideGirls.com by going undercover as a Suicide Girl model and being naked in lots of single-page shots where she shows off her Brazilian - and before you ask, no I am not making any of that up.

There's lots of gore and stuff, but it's not done like in Walking Dead where you occasionally see some playful invention like a shotgunned baby or someone getting raped and eaten alive at the same time, it's just the odd bit of every horror film you've seen in the last ten years with a goth girly lead - it's basically this century's Evil Ernie.  Not by a long chalk the worst comic you'll ever read, just not as inventive as you'd maybe hope given the premise.

[P-BOT/1138]

ive been reading it from pretty much the beginning. first one i got was "comic book carnage". only cause i was going through a steve niles phase and though he was a writer in it. i like now that they have now a more bigger mythology going on. not just slasher of the week.

[Kirbs]

Quite fancy this myself, the creator (tim heally) not sure if that's his name, has a interview up on the ifanboy talksplode podcast last week it worth a listen.

[PsychoGoatee]

Nice to see some people dig it, easily one of the best indie books around.

[bluemeanie]

The wife has the first omnibus book and that was a lot of silly OTT fun. Gotta be honest though the premise did wear a little thin for me and the Suicide Girls issue felt like a step too far

That said, it was a clever bit of cross promotion and probably got some non comic readers checking the book out, so more power to 'em.

Been a while since I've read it. Slightly surprised it's still going.