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Hack/Slash: My First Maniac (2011)

by Daniel Leister(Favorite Author)

4.06 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1607063387 (ISBN13: 9781607063384)

languge

English

genre

Horror

publisher

Image Comics

review 1: There's just something about this series that hooks you. Full on, meat hook under the skin, dragging you across the floor kicking and screaming. Even though I've been ambivalent about the series as a whole for the most part, I couldn't help but have some curiousity for this entry. It's a prequel, which intrigued me. Would we get to see more of Cassie's encounter with her mother? The answer to that is yes, to an extent. The artwork in this is pretty nice for the most part. It's pretty much your standard comic book artwork, meaning that it's nice to look at but not anything so astronomically amazing that you'd scream to the skies about it. You get a lot of cheesecake shots, which are par for the course, but what does stick out about the artwork is that Leister and Englert do... more an excellent job of capturing an early Cassie. By this I mean that she's slightly more innocent and less bitter/seasoned than she would be far later in the series. There's just something a little sad about seeing Cassie eagerly write in her diary that someone thought she was cool, knowing that this will likely only end badly for her.Story-wise this was nice. It does its job, which is to entertain and give a little more information on Cassie and her starts as a Slasher slayer. The only downfall is that at times the story just didn't seem to live up to the expectations it had for itself. There were one or two points where I felt the story could have been shortened just a tad or used something to flesh itself out with a little more. Perhaps if the comic had delved a little more into Cassie's Lunch Lady slaying? It was fun seeing the shout out to Polybius, though. Then again, that's an urban legend that really could spawn an entire series of comics and movies all on its own. Overall I liked this. I'd read it again, if that's any judge of its merit. I would potentially recommend this to people who haven't read the main series, as you don't have to have read the main series to really know what's going on here for the most part. However, this isn't as good as the main series can sometimes be, so this is really aimed more towards the long-time fans of the series more than newer readers.
review 2: I've loved Hack/Slash from the beginning and this 4-part mini series serves as a great intro following the move to Image comics without feeling like a retread for the older fans.We get Cassie in her early days, still unsure of who she is and how she wants her life to proceed. There's a lot of humour, great writing, while the art remains fantastic and sexy in equal measure. We also get a fun and interesting slasher this time round, proving more imagination than most slasher flicks out there today.Well worth reading; make sure you pick up the ongoing. less

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