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Zoe Thorogood’s Hack/Slash: Back to School is probably one of the craziest comic series I’ve read in recent times. And definitely the best approach I’ve come across so far to merge two comic worlds together: horror manga and western comics.
With issue #3 in particular, Thorogood shows what makes her as a comic artist so special and unique.
She builds bridges where there were none before.
She treats us with a really wild styles mix that never existed before, nor would you have thought it possible for something like this to work.
But - and I’m especially surprised by this - it works brilliantly. Even I, who am not a fan of either manga or horror manga, am still a little disturbed when it gets too body horror and gorily disgusting here, but I can’t deny a certain fascination.
To lighten things up, improve the digestibility, and to keep people like me interested, despite disturbing monsters and gore scenery, she keeps sprinkling in elements of coming-of-age, great character work, and then spices it all up with emotional depth, trademarked with a pinch of Thorogoodian self-analysis and self-positioning of an adolescent.
Of course, since it is Hack/Slash you still get some tits, ass and sexyness, however this still fits in.
But besides all this innovation and demonstration of her outstanding creativity, Thorogood’s vision of Hack/Slash is simply highly entertaining, both visually and narratively, and thanks to her pitch-black British humor absolutely hilarious.
(You can subscribe for the last issue of Hack/Slash: Back To School right HERE.
Or maybe just buy it regularly...)
Hack Slash Back To School #3 (Of 4) Cover A Thorogood
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Cassie and the Agency discover a dangerous slasher, responsible for making kids murder their own families after spending too long online! Cassie assumes it's brainwashing, which she must be immune to, right? Only stupid people get brainwashed...… read more
