Hack Slash #3 – Review

By: Tim Seeley (writer), Daniel Leister (art), Mark Englert (colors), Crank (letters) & James Lowder (edits)

The Story: Bobby Brunswick is back with an axe to grind against an ex-girlfriend and is using his “reanimate dead animal” powers to their fullest.

What’s Good: There’s lots of typical fun Hack/Slash action in this comic and that means it’s a lot of fun.  One of the villains in this arc is Bobby Brunswick, who old time Hack/Slash readers will remember as the veterinary assistant who had a huge crush on his boss, Lisa Elsten (the town vet and Chris Krank’s current girlfriend).  Lisa’s boyfriend at the time didn’t like this very much and in a prank-gone-wrong, Bobby was killed before coming back to exact revenge and exhibiting this ability to reanimate dead animals.

So, this issue has scads of zombified animals everywhere.  There are crows spying on pregnant Lisa through the window, zombie deer playing kamikaze with the sheriff’s patrol car, and zombie fish and an effing zombie snapping turtle trying to bite people in the river.  It’s both intense and funny all at the same time and that’s before we even get to the scenes of Bobby going after pregnant Lisa and the requisite Pooch humor (he gets locked in his cage for sniffing Lisa’s butt because “he wants to know what she ate for dinner”).

Summing up, this issue is just a lot of fun as Seeley keeps the action rolling and tosses in humor here and there.  If you like a silly take on slasher movies, you’ll love this series.