{"id":5520,"date":"2016-05-11T10:55:33","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/?p=5520"},"modified":"2016-05-11T10:55:33","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T16:55:33","slug":"hackslash-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/?p=5520","title":{"rendered":"Hack\/Slash: Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5522\" src=\"http:\/\/www.delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/71itNyUBO5L-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"71itNyUBO5L\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/71itNyUBO5L-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/71itNyUBO5L-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/71itNyUBO5L-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/71itNyUBO5L-624x936.jpg 624w, https:\/\/delirium.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/71itNyUBO5L.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>And thus comes to an end (at the auspicious and (let&#8217;s be honest) inevitable volume 13, no less) the adventures of <del>psycho killer<\/del> killer of psychos Cassandra Hack and her longtime partner Vlad. Looking back, this is definitely a series that would have benefitted from binging, in that it started out episodic but then turned out to have a guiding arc that I didn&#8217;t spot until far too late to pay the proper amount of attention. Like, as of <a title=\"Hack\/Slash Volume 13: Final by Tim Seeley, at Amazon\" href=\"http:\/\/smile.amazon.com\/Hack-Slash-13-Tim-Seeley\/dp\/1607067471\/\">Final<\/a>[1] I have pretty much wrapped my head around most of what&#8217;s going on, why I care about it, and what it means for the characters. But there were two or three previous books where I was definitely floundering, which is a pity, because the series ends very strongly indeed, which maybe means that it was strong back when it felt like it was a slog, too.<\/p>\n<p>So yeah. If you like snarky, cheesecakey horror comics that will probably never win any feminism awards despite frequently passing the Bechdel Test, this series is probably the only example of that. Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p>[1] It is important to note that there are two new volumes that have been published since the so-called final one. Not loving that, especially <em>because<\/em> it ended so cleanly.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And thus comes to an end (at the auspicious and (let&#8217;s be honest) inevitable volume 13, no less) the adventures of psycho killer killer of psychos Cassandra Hack and her longtime partner Vlad. Looking back, this is definitely a series that would have benefitted from binging, in that it started out episodic but then turned [&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],"class_list":["post-5520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-words","tag-graphic-novel","tag-horror"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520","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=5520"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5523,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5520\/revisions\/5523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/delirium.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}