I don’t know if I’ve said lately how much I appreciate that there’s a generic horror-movie comic around that simultaneously makes fun of and embraces all the relevant tropes. (I mean, last time they had by God Chucky, right?) So: Hack/Slash, thank you muchly for existing! I keep seeing indications of a movie version on the horizon, but I kind of don’t want one, as once it’s a movie, the tongue-in-cheekness of it all flies right out the window. Still, it’s pleasing that the comic’s doing well enough for people to consider that.

One consequence of this appreciation is that I have bought (well, a year ago) and read Return of the Revenge Part 4, in which, as you might possibly expect, old nemeses crawl out of the woodwork to trouble Cassie Hack and her monstrous companion Vlad once more. I know I already said it in the previous review, but I am very much in enjoyment of the month-to-month storylines version of the comic that has only recently (for me) started to occur. Every single issue has just a ton of stuff going on. In this book alone, we have an ongoing quest to discover the whereabouts of Cassie’s long-missing father, an Archie comics parody, and secret society hot tub lesbians. Plus the revengencing enemies I already mentioned, some brand new enemies, the progressing personal lives of the five-ish regular characters in the series, and some pretty brutal moral dilemmas that are only now starting to be planted for eventual dire fruit. Good times!