Cassie:"A slasher. It's a type of undead, I guess... sort've like a vampire or a zombie. They're so full of anger that they don't wanna die. They hate love, youth, sex.... things they miss, from life. All I know for sure is that they're mean and hard to kill."
Cassie Hack was an ordinary outcast high school nerdgirl until her mother, Delilah, was discovered to be a serial killer (dubbed "The Lunch Lady") who had been murdering the students who had been bullying her daughter. Even worse, after she killed herself she came back from the grave as a "slasher": an undead serial murderer powered by hate and rage and existing only to carry on killing. To make things even worse, Cassie ended up having to personally re-kill her by shooting her several times in the face.Now Cassie wanders the USA, channeling her guilt and pain into hunting down and destroying the other slashers who stalk the nation. And wearing a fine assortment of highlyrevealinggothwear.Her only friend is Vlad, a hideously deformed but kindlygiant whose odd upbringing by a reclusive butcher left him with No Social Skills but excellent meat cleaver moves. Together they kill zombie mass murderers, and the odd deserving living person. Aiding the two is the so-called Hack/Slash, Inc., founded by would-be slasher victims Doctor Lisa Elsten and Chris Krank, which provides info, and whatever resources they can spare.Hack/Slash is a comic series originally published by Devil's Due, and written by Tim Seeley. A series of one-shots and miniseries illustrated by various artists, published between 2004 and 2007, were followed by an ongoing series, illustrated at first by Emily Stone. In early 2010 it was announced that due to Devil's Due's financial difficulties the series would be transferring to Image Comics. During the rest of the year both publishers issued Hack/Slash material: the Devil's Due series continuing until issue #34 while Image produced a "Year One"-style mini-series titled My First Maniac and a few one-shots. The ongoing series restarted from #1 at Image in 2011.Not to be confused with Hack And Slash, although the plots can get that way, or with Hack and Slash.Has a live-action film in Development Hell, and a motion comic ("illustrated film") on the way, with Brea Grant as the voice of Cassie. The wiki can be found here, and the unofficial official site can be found here.This series provides examples of:
Abusive Parents: If a flashback to Cassie's childhood in The Final Revenge of Evil Ernie is any indication, Delilah wasn't above physical discipline... with a burning hot iron.
Activist Fundamentalist Antics: Laura Lochs, especially in the Vs. Chucky story where she claims to want to "save" Cassie by murdering her friends in ways that reflect sins according to Laura's belief system, even though they don't actually apply to the people she intends to kill.
All There in the Manual: Rudolph, who gets offhandedly mentioned in Entry Wound, first appeared in Slashing Through the Snow, a short story included in the first trade paperback and omnibus.
Art Shift: Issues six and twenty-eight are set in Haverhill, a town inspired by Archie Comics. The art shifts into an Archie-like style to represent this.
However, at the end of twenty-eight, the art shifts back into a more realistic style to represent Haverhill coming down with Cerebus Syndrome.
Also a possible reference to the radical art shift in some recent Archie stories.
Author Appeal: According to the extras in the first trade paperback collection, Cassie was based on a Suicide Girl model Tim Seeley met at the con. He was too shy to ask her out.
Bad Future: Shown in Murder Messiah; Cassie, Lisa and Kris are dead, and Vlad is held captive by the returned Akakios, who unleashed a virus that turned innumerable people into slashers, which conquered a significant chunk of America.
Bandage Babe: Laura Lochs in vs. Chucky has them all over, so we don't see her horribly burned body.
Big "NO!": Let loose by Mary Shelley Lovecraft, after realizing she's been reborn into "a comedic superhero universe" (the Lovebunny one, to be specific) in Entry Wound.
Blondes are Evil: Laura Lochs, Acid Angel, Ms. America, Sarah Bunn from My First Maniac, the briefly mentioned New Year's Eva... Tim Seeley does not appear to like blonde women very much.
Blood Bath: Emily Christy resorts to something akin to this in order to retain a human appearance in Tub Club, manipulating students into weird bloodletting pool orgies as a part of being in the titular secret society. Cassie is also depicted as partaking in one on a cover◊ from the same Story Arc.
Break the Cutie: In flashbacks we learn that Cassie was bullied in school because she was poor and "ugly". Aww.
Not to mention the part where her mother is an undead serial killer who has had to be put down by her on two separate occasions so far. That tends to be a bit traumatic.
Cannibal Clan: Vlad and his biological family are apparently descended from Sawney Beane.
Captain Ersatz: A few slashers are loose parodies of film characters, such as Pinhead, Sammi Curr from Trick or Treat and the brothers from Basket Case.
Car Fu: While effective against zombie animals in Euthanized, the resurrected Mosaic Man proves immune in Foes and Fortunes.
Becomes a disadvantage in Shout at the Devil, due to Six Sixx and Acid Washed having a song that can brainwash virgins.
Celebrity Star: Comic Book Carnage features Steve Niles, Robert Kirkman, Messy Stench and Skottie Young (who reappears in vs. Chucky and Trailers) as characters and victims, plus various real-life Suicide Girls appear in the first annual (and are also killed).
Cool Big Sis: Lisa could be example of this, like in Double Feature.
Cool Car: The duo originally used a van, but after it was destroyed during the battle with the resurrected Julian the Mosaic Man, they replaced it with a hearse that Julian's grateful near-miss victim happened to have lying around.
Several other slashers as well, such Laura Lochs (her boyfriend was stolen by a Spring Break slut, so she planned on committing a massacre) and the Sundermann brothers (killing the people responsible for making their favorite childhood hero Darker and Edgier).
Eye Patch Of Power: Six Sixx gets one after a Dread Drinker rips his eye out in Mind Killer.
Eye Scream: Hibachi Devil getting stabbed in the eye with a test tube in Slice Hard, and the Dread Drinkers taking over peoples' bodies by crawling into their eyes in Mind Killer (along with what happened to Six above).
Final Girl: The basic idea for the series came when Tim Seeley, stuck at home one Halloween due to sickness, watched a few horror film marathons and thought, "What if a final girl, after killing the slasher that was after her, went on to hunt down and kill other ones?"
Flashback to Catchphrase: My First Maniac has Cassie yell "Kiss it!" (which she usually carves into her bats) while trying to pop Grinface's head off with razor wire.
The Glasses Come Off: Cassie needed glasses as a kid... she apparently doesn't any more.
Gone Horribly Wrong: Emily Christy's attempts at researching slashers results in her becoming one, the scientist experimenting with infusing children with slasher genes in Little Children gets killed by them, Herbert West and Jack Hack's experiments result in the resurrection of Delilah Hack, who quickly devolves back into the Lunch Lady...
Guilt By Coincidence: Cassie first met Vlad during a spate of slasher murders in Chicago, and since Vlad was living in the shadows at the time, is big, burly and... not a looker, she mistook him for the killer and attacked him.
He Who Fights Monsters: Cassie has always feared becoming a slasher, just like her mother.
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: Sergeant Ryan Kramer from Land of Lost Toys was a slasher who became active every Memorial Day. Entry Wound involved every holiday-themed slasher waking up early, including a Sergeant Ryan Kramer, Jr.
I Ate What?: Delilah didn't just kill the kids who bullied Cassie, she butchered them and made them into cafeteria food, which was fed to the rest of the unknowing students.
I'm a Humanitarian: The first asylum inmate Evil Ernie kills to "impress" Cassie says he was institutionalized because he ate people, claiming doing so let him "see God".
Ironic Hell: Subverted in the Chucky crossover with Laura Loch's Hell House, where the assigned punishments were completely random. Played straight in the Shout at the Devil arc, when Six Sixx is sentenced to perform in a demonic dive for the rest of eternity.
Mundanger: The first ever villain we see Cassie and Vlad take down was the coach of a cheerleading camp who had been murdering campers. He appeared completely normal... aside from him wearing a catcher's mask while killing, for some reason. The second Father Wrath also turned out to be a completely human copycat.
Never Sleep Again: Villain Ashley Guthrie initially had the ability to kill people in their dreams.
No Bisexuals: Averted. Hack/Slash actually has a small gay fan following due to Cassie briefly pursuing a relationship with a stripper named Margaret Crump. It caused them both a bit of soul-searching, but what's broken it off for the time being is Cassie's inability to deal with the notion that the slashers she hunts might show up and kill Margaret. At the moment, Cassie has a deeply bizarre relationship with Samhain.
Oh Crap: Various instances, the best probably being when Cassie goes to tell the authorities all about slashers, realizing too late she's wanted as a suspect in homicide cases all over the country.
Cassie: "... Fuck me running..."
One-Winged Angel: Ms. America near the end of Tub Club, when she became Ourobouros.
"Cassie Hack is the lone survivor of an attack by a slasher called the Lunch Lady... a slasher that happened to be her mother! Now, she travels the world with her monstrous partner and friend Vlad, hunting down and destroying slashers wherever they find them!"
Psychopathic Manchild: Bobby Brunswick from Euthanized, the Sundermann brothers from Comic Book Carnage, Edgar from BUMPed.
Public Domain Character: Nightmare and Sleepy, a pair of Golden Age superheroes, appear in flashback, and a few other Golden Age heroes are obliquely mentioned in the same story.
Raising the Steaks: Early villain Bobby Brunswick had the ability to reanimate animals from the pet cemetery where he was buried. A slasher shark also shows up in Trailers.
Recycled IN SPACE!: One of the "possible" stories in Trailers had the government sending Cassie and Vlad into space to kill slashers who had taken over a space station.
Refuge in Audacity: Summoned when Six Sixx, when asked about the source of his success, gleefully yells "I MADE A DEAL WITH THE DEVIL!". He did, but the other man just says "yeah, whatever".
Mary Shelley Lovecraft, not only being a shout out unto herself, mentions that Cassie is a compelling character, though not as loved as the Summers girl
An earlier reference to Buffy can be found in the Shout Out-filled Comic Book Carnage. When Cassie explains who she is, someone tells her that if she "wants to play Buffy" the roleplaying room is upstairs.
[sigh] Though your tale is more complex than some, you still exist in a simple world of revenge, titillation and death. Allow me to try again, in language more befitting your author. Hi, I'm Mary. I'm Frankenstein, Cthulhu and Godzilla all rolled into one. I'm going to fuck up your world, bitch, and then fictional characters are gonna hop out of books and take over.
Vigilante Man: Cassie and Vlad, Nathan from The Coldest Dish. Evil Ernie tried becoming one, but didn't make a real effort to not kill random bystanders.
Villain Team Up: Slice Hard. The slashers cooperate surprisingly well... except for X-O.
With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Pretty much all slashers, due to their brains being screwed up. Samhain appears to be an exception, though only due to conditioning, and Ms. America had moments of lucidity, as she wasn't a "pure" slasher.
X Meets Y: At least one ad described the series as Buffy, if it was made by Wes Craven and Rob Zombie.
as the voice of Cassie. The wiki can be found here
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