Comic Quick Hits - Another Dose

Welcome to another edition of Quick Hits. This week will be a little different since most of the books aren't really from this week... but hey whatever right? You probably still haven't read some of the books I have so on with the review.

Hack/Slash #4 (On-going) - I wish I had the time to review issues 2 and 3, but instead I've reviewed issue 1 and now 4. Issue 4 marked the end of the first story arc of the ongoing series. Unfortunately I didn't really like the issue. There was some great stuff with Vlad, but the sense of danger that the first and second issue had was lost on the last two. They spent so much time getting to the ending that by the time they got there, they ran out of pages to tell a well crafted ending. This Demon that's going to impregnate Cassie and this other girl, ends up just looking like a purplely gross tentacle that gets it's ass kicked pretty easily for a Demon. The appearance of Elvis was again humorous but also short lived. He and Sixx both had pretty lame endings to their lives, with Elvis taking one of the impregnating tentacles in the butt and blowing up and Sixx having to play his gig from the first issue over and over again in a personal hell... pretty boring actually.

The Whore, whose name slips my mind, becomes a dominate character all through the fourth issue and will pretty much wear on your nerves. Also I guess Cassie is lesbian, which kinda sucks since she's a strong sexy female and I'm sure most guys read the book because they thought she was hot and would get with her if she was real and now if she was she would be gay so it doesn't really matter. Yeah who cares right? I don't really I just think it's dumb when a character's sexuality is brought up in a comic that has no place for it. In typical Hack/Slash fashion, the next Slasher is introduced and will hopefully be a more successful outing. Here's some previews of this issue before we move on to the next.
























Bump #3 (of 4) - If you're a horror fan and you haven't been reading Bump, then you are missing out on one of the best horror books written to date. The overall story line is nothing new of course, but they "monsters" in it, and the way characters handle situations, is. Basically this sick bastard kidnaps a woman and cuts out their no-no's and locks them into these female bodies made of wood. Well the Sheriff and his deputy put a stop to it one day and leave the bastard to bleed to death and board up his house and pretty much go on each and everyday trying to live with what they did and pretending their best it didn't happen. Problem is the bastards back and he's up to his old tricks. His Mom helps him in his captures and what not, and some scenes have a strong influence of House of a 1,000 corpses, but you know what? It works! If you're a fan of horror in any shape or form, you'll be able to pick out the writers influences very easily, but that's what really makes the book great. It's taking all this cool ideas, meshing them together and not making it suck. I've been able to find every issue on line, and the first issue sold pretty well at the shops that carried it so you might find it in the back issues at a local shop. There's only one issue left of the series, but already there's a cross-over in the works with... you guessed it Hack/Slash! I'm actually really looking forward to that, and seeing what happens with it. Check out Fangoria's site as well!

Killing Girl #1 (of 5) - Let me sum this book up for you real quick. Girl gets kidnapped as a child. She losses her memory or just can't remember, Russian Mafia forces her into prostitution, kills a client, becomes their star assassin, runs into a man who thinks she's his wife, oops my mistake you're not, calls his wife and she tells him about the kidnapping, blah, blah, blah, the kid sister is about to kill the husband but he calls her by her real name. Well everything else in the story makes since except for the husband really just picking up on things way to quick. He's got a gun to his head and he just randomly tries calling her by the name that in all actuality, he never learns? Yeah I don't think so. Art's pretty good, but not strong enough to save the weak story.

The Chemist #1 - Sometimes it's hard to plop down $3.50 for an Image book. For starters you can never be certain that you'll see the next issue, or most of the time, issue 5. Also the story and or art may not be worth the 3.50 that they're asking. At the end of this book you'll ask yourself one question... "Who the hell is Jay Boose? And then, "why isn't he doing more comics?" Well the answer to the second one is because he is the writer, artist, colorist and editor of this book leaving him no time to do other great comics. The story starts off with the guy on the cover meeting a woman in a bar. He is selling pills, but what they are is unclear at the time. Things go bad and the people that hired him want him out of the picture. The woman that was working for the people trying to kill our guy ends up joining him and coming back to his house while they stay low. I'm pretty sure that she's going to try and kill him, which will end up with her having a change of heart, but pretty much I'm suspicious of her and I'm not willing to trust her 100% yet. That's pretty much the gist of the story. What I like about this character is that he's not a drug-dealer. He is an independent "Chemist" that reverse engineers medicine, to make it cheaper for those who can't afford it. Over all I really liked the story and the art was fantastic, making it a worthy buy after all. I liked it so much you get some free preview pages! Enjoy and more than likely they'll be another comic review or Quick Hit coming soon!