Demonica gets Re-Animated with a mini- review of Hack/Slash Omnibus 2

Demonica gets Re-Animated with a mini- review of Hack/Slash Omnibus 2

by - Demonica

It’s Demonica, the head demon in charge over at NecroCOMICon TV. We have been working hard on getting the new show and season under way. I think everyone is going to be happy and surprised, so tell your friends!

This is my first comic review and I decided to write about my favorite comic series, entitled Hack/Slash. Hack/Slash was being released by Devil's Due Publishing but recently switched to Image Comics, plus starting in February will become monthly again. 

Hack/Slash features Cassandra Hack, (or Cassie for short) and her lovable sidekick Vlad. Vlad protects and helps Cassie in her quest to help those in need and kill serial slashers. Serial killers are a mix of those that return from the dead to continue to kill or even the crazed killers that we are so familiar with, which leads me to this review. I just finished Hack/Slash Omnibus 2, even though this retails for $30, it is well worth it. Great stories and some amazing art. I wanted to talk a bit about the Cassie & Vlad Meet the Re-Animator story arc, I'm a big fan of Herbert West (who doesn't love Jeffrey Combs) so this only made sense to be my first...oh, Mr. Combs..be gentle :)

Originally released as issues #15-17, our hero, poor Cassie Hack, is now without her mother or father. Well, she really was for most of the first 2 Omnibus’ but, I got excited when she found her father toward the end of the 2nd Omnibus. They didn’t even get a day together before Dr. West brought back her mother too. 

In a perfect world, things really start out great. Her mom & Dad together again, they head to a nearby motel, but their love doesn’t last. As they are in bed together, Mrs. Hack starts to become deformed again, into the lunch lady (which is the fat older version of Delilah Hack) that went on a rampage killing hopeless teens that teased her daughter (read the early stuff, it's great...even My 1st Maniac trade, which comes out Dec 8th is fantastic!). Mrs. Hack doesn’t want Jack to see her this way, she decides she needs to make some of the of the stew that Dr. West used to make her alive and beautiful again. So Delilah kills the first person she sees and starts to prepare the stew as Jack calls Cassie to warn her and to have her bring Dr. West to the motel. 

Delilah begins to sense trouble. As she turns of Jack, she stabs him in the stomach. Shortly after, Cassie arrives with Dr. West & Vlad as Jack stumbles to them. Cassie asks Vlad to save her father as she goes to deal with her mother. With the help of Dr. West they decompose Delilah back to a corpse. When Cassie goes to check on her father, Vlad tells her that he died. Dr. West offers Cassie the last vial of the regenator stuff. Cassie took the last vial and smashed it. She didn’t want to bring him back that way. Truly a sad ending, as Cassie leaves with Vlad an orphan, I was really pulling for her. 

Hack/Slash is definitely my favorite comic book thus far. The violence, gore, and sexual content makes me need Hack/Slash Omnibus 3 on Wednesday. 

"Hey Mooch, you better get me this or I will hurt you" 

Until next time, stay sick - Demonica- Slaughter the ones you Love!!

Comic Reviews for June 19th - plus Shadowland news

Dimension and James are back with Comic Reviews

 By Rob Dimension

Hey gang, James from Cyborg One Comics in Doylestown, PA (www.cyborg1.com) was able to join Me as we looked at the hottest and best titles to currently in stores.

I wanted to spotlight some Indie titles in the beginning, notice that they are Horror, then get to the mainstream stuff. I really enjoyed Raven Gregory's The Waking, released through Zenescope. The series just wrapped and was a mystical, yet well grounded, fresh story. I would recommend checking that one out. There are only 4 issues and should be still easy to get your grubby little hands on. Others to look for: Crossed - Family Values, Hack/Slash: My 1st Maniac..I love Cassie Hack. We were both exhausted, but wanted to get the review done..please watch!!


Here is Part 1 of the reviews..we tried to cover a lot of titles:

Watch LNHH Comic Review 06172010 Part 1 in Entertainment  |  View More Free Videos Online at Veoh.com

Here is Part 2 of the reviews - Tons of stuff to read

Later this week we will be releasing a Beginner's guide to Comic Lingo...learn to speak amongst the nerds without feeling left out. John Cannon, edited these videos and was also very tired (being a Horror Host is more tiring then you can believe). Huge thanks goes out to him.

Late Night Comic Review for May 29th, 2010

Late Night at the Horror Hotel reveals comics that you MUST read!

By - Rob Dimension

After some great feedback for the past reviews, Late Night at the Horror Hotel has sent out our resident nerd, Rob Dimension to go visit James Frazier at Cyborg One (www.cyborg1.com)  Comics in Doylestown, PA. They discuss comics that are setting the shelves on fire plus look at some that are not worth the paper they are printed on. Below is what Rob Dimension had to say:

"I read all the time, always trying new comics just for the sake of being a fanboy. Here are some of my favorites plus within the video review, we mention plenty to get you started regardless if you read currently or not. Hope you enjoy and we are working on improving all the time. Huge thanks goes out to my homeboy and co-host John Cannon - he edits everything and does great."

Marvel's Secret Avengers against DC's Legion of Super Heroes - "Pitting both lower level teams against each other for the sake of the readers, I figured I would read both and see who prevails - This was extremely easy for me to choose - Secret Avengers all the way. While James does mention his dislike for the art, no one can dispute how great of a start this issue is presenting. Not much of a secondary squad with Beast, Black Widow, War Machine, Moon Knight and more lead by Steve Rogers...they wreck the lameness of the Legion of Super Heroes. This is my pick of this week as best break out comic."

Brightest Day #2 - "I have to put on my Lantern ring collection as I write this - As we progress into the aftermath of Blackest Night, Brightest Day is full of surprises. With a combination of 12 villains and heroes dead, each given a Lantern ring, who will become the White Lantern? In a plot similar to the Sword and the Stone, this is shaping up to be the comic series to follow. Aquaman is B.A. simply for the ability to raise zombie creatures from the deep...yes, I said Aquaman. While they're are plenty of cross story comics, reading this just solely will give you enough info to follow."

War of the Supermen -  "I didn't get a chance to get into this comic in the reviews because we are slaves to YouTube's 10 minute video, but for a short mini series, this is worth grabbing. Issue #0 was offered during Free Comic Book Day and begins with the story of General Zod as the leader Krypton Army, waging war against Earth. With the Yellow Sun leveling out the playing field, Superman must save the day. This is a 4 part series and is really good. I grow tired of a lot of the Superman stuff, but this grabbed my attention and made me a fanboy of good ole' Clark Kent again"

What am I reading this week?

What am I reading this week?

by : Rob Dimension

Well another week of comic book reading and movie watching has come to a close. I figured I would share what I am reading, what looks good and what I saw for the week. This way I can cover a few mini opinionated reviews and not be stuck for a long drawn out blog. As you can tell by my picture (on the left) I am very excited with this weeks reading material. I spent this week grabbing some older trades, re reading some and regretting not picking up others sooner. On a whole, this weeks stash was very good.

The Walking Dead - I had read issues here and there and never really got wrapped into the story as much as I should. For me, comic reading is like phases, some weeks I enjoy The Red Hulk stuff (the last year has been very good Hulk reading), while other weeks I might grab some off title that no one gives a chance too. Robert Kirkman had really grabbed my attention with Marvel Zombie trades 1 & 2 plus Dead Days, so I had to go back and read The Walking Dead series (currently issue #71 is in stores). Like all comics, it's never to late to jump in, so I wanted to read about the Zombie Apocalypse, I'm a sucker for love stories. 

The story follows a group of survivors though-out the ordeal, problems on the road, how they survive but what intrigues me the most, the topic that hardly anyone talks about ..... the social issues. How people within your group cope with death, if they can mentally handle what's going on around them. Kirkman does a fantastic job touching on those issues, feeding you the minor details that get you wrapped up within the story and the characters. Very smart writing, makes the good guys likable and the bad guys, not...very simple, yet hard to achieve for many. 

I am 1/2 way through the 2nd Hardback and have set myself a mission to ingest as much as I can to get current. I still have Hardbacks 3 & 4 sitting here and will hopefully be done with those by the end of next week. So, if you haven't read comic in a while and want to check something out, go grab the 1st trade of the Walking Dead by Image, it retails for $9.99 and is worth every penny.

Yep, another trade I slept on...Hack/Slash. Devils Due Publishing puts this one out (currently issue #31 is out) and was pretty big in 2008 but I always just kind of wrote it off and another, cute girl, no storyline comic...man, I was wayyy wrong. Filled with plenty of slasher material that would make any horror fan happy, Hack/Slash delivers the goods on more than one level.

The story follows Cassie Hack, a social misfit whose own Mother murdered for the sake of her daughter's feelings, on a quest to take out the bad and evil slashers. Accompanied by her trusty, equally freakish sidekick, Vlad, Cassie roams from town to town and gives you plenty of adventure, hot scenes that make any fanboys glasses fog up and some laugh out loud moments. Paying tribute to many horror icons today, I spotted a Troma sticker, a few mentions of other pop culture Icons and even a side story with Chucky (yup..the crazy, murderous Good Guys doll). 

I grabbed the Omnibus Volume 1, think a larger trade paperback with numerous chapters, that retails for $34.99 but is full of tons of reading. I can't recommend this one enough. I think fans of Troma, bad B movies and well, lonely nerds world wide will enjoy this one... especially the nerds (like me) since Cassie wears very little. Ladies and Gents..there is a new ass-kicker of slashers and her name is Cassie Hack.

On to the other comics I grabbed for the week - I will admit, it was rather light for me this week. Only so much time in my days for comics and the two mentioned above have taken over...

• Siege #1 - I went back and want to read this, since people are pimping it to me. Norman Osborn was Marvel's go to villain last year and it continues on here. Claiming his new identity as the Iron Patriot, Norman has assembled his own Avengers Initiative and is set to take down Asgard. I have never been a big fan of Thor or Loki, as they are just too wordy for me. But, so far I am enjoying this one...there are only 4 in the series and it isn't too hard to just jump right in. So go check it out! If you wanted to be even more caught up, check out The Dark Avengers series.

• Fall of the Hulks #1 Alpha - I grabbed this simply because within the last year, anything pertaining to the Red Hulk/Green Hulk war has been pretty fun. The smart Hulk vs The Dumb one...equally as powerful, blah, blah, blah...this comic is more of a set up story. Plenty of super villains, I just can't get enough of Doom lately..he is so BA, plenty of back ground knowledge to get you set for the remainder issues. I look forward to reading more about this...the plan of capturing the World's smartest is never an easy task.