Hack/Slash is a comic book about Cassie Hack, a young Goth girl who hunts down slashers (in the Michael Myers/Jason/Freddie Krueger vein) alongside her monstrous companion Vlad. This issue brings Cassie and Vlad to a comic convention where a team of artists and writers working on rejuvenating an old character are being picked off one at a time. (Interestingly, the artists and writers depicted in the book are real-world comic scenesters. You can expect to see Robert Kirkman, Skottie Young, Steve Niles, and Messy Stench in illustrated form.) The writing is good and the story is compact and entertaining, which is often not the case with one-shots like this. A brilliant premise (a serial killer on the loose at a comic con, I’m there!) and above average art set this apart from the no-brainer gorefests that most horror comics offer.

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