Hack/slash Annual 2011: Hatchet/slash Mini-review #1

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• 7.0

  cxPulp - Blake Petit

  Dec 12, 2011

  One of the things I really like about Hack/Slash is when the creators of the book manage to work out a crossover with a real horror movie character, and although I havent actually seen the Hatchet movies, I was looking forward to this book. The results werent bad. Cassie and Vlad are called to New Orleans to take out the mysterious Victor Crowley, a slasher who seems to be responsible for the deaths of dozens of people in the past few years. When they arrive, however, they find that Victor himself is a victim of sorts, although of a far more human and far more insidious foe. Although I liked the story for the most part, there was one thing that really stuck in my craw as a New Orleans-area native. A large part of the book deals with the Hyperdome, an obvious analogue for the Superdome, that is still in a state of chaos, disrepair, and squalor due to Hurricane Katrina. Guys? Its been six years. Im officially calling it over. Comic book writers, screenwriters, guys who work for the freak Read Full Review