{"id":2500,"date":"2010-12-07T14:02:01","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T20:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=2500"},"modified":"2010-12-07T14:02:01","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T20:02:01","slug":"hackslash-super-sidekick-sleepover-slaughter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=2500","title":{"rendered":"Hack\/Slash: Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting thing about the Hack\/Slash series is that is has ongoing arcs, but not one <em>overall<\/em> arc; and in that way it is quite similar to all the old superhero comics I&#8217;ve been reading these last few years. The most recent volume, <a title=\"Hack\/Slash Volume 8: Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter by Tim Seeley and Drew Edwards, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Hack-Slash-Sidekick-Sleepover-Slaughter\/dp\/1607062917\/\" target=\"_blank\">Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter<\/a>, consists mostly of a side arc in which a tangential but still minimally related aspect of the current main arc (a decades-old secret society that may be behind all supernatural slashers) takes the driver&#8217;s seat. In this case, that arc revolves around a group of teens who have found a way to give themselves superpowers. It is fair I think to say that the title has NO SPOILERS WHATSOEVER indicating the outcome of their experimentation.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, dark portents are afoot back at Hack\/Slash, Inc. headquarters. And then, for some reason, there&#8217;s a crossover with some alternate earth half-zombie guy and a rip-off of the Marvel Zombies. So, that happened? But the rest was pretty cool. I just wish the last crossover thing had a slightly more cheese-cakey aesthetic, to make up for my being otherwise bored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting thing about the Hack\/Slash series is that is has ongoing arcs, but not one overall arc; and in that way it is quite similar to all the old superhero comics I&#8217;ve been reading these last few years. The most recent volume, Super Sidekick Sleepover Slaughter, consists mostly of a side arc in which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,30,22],"class_list":["post-2500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-horror","tag-superheroes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}