Tim Seeley and Stefano Caselli aren’t quite done with Hack/Slash: the horror maestros will return to their creator for a four-issue crossover with Jason Pearson’s Body Bags, coming this October from Image Comics.
“Body Bags was my favorite comic of the late 90s, and its influence on Hack/Slash is probably pretty evident (see Vlad.),” said Seeley via a press release provided to Comic Book Club. “We’re so proud to bring Jason’s characters back, and re-introduce them to old and new fans.”
Added Caselli, “Jason’s Body Bags is one of the biggest reasons I’m a comic book artist today.”
In the four-issue miniseries, Cassie Hack, aka the final girl who went on to slash slashers, and her gentle but monstrous companion Vlad, head to Georgia in search a killer. Instead, they find a slew of bounty hunters. At the same time, Mack “Clownface” Delgado is trying to teach his daughter Panda about Bodybagging, and pits her against Cassie.
“Tim reached out a little over a year ago via our mutual friend, Cully Hamner, one of Jason’s former studio mates at Gaijin Studios, with the idea to do this crossover,” said Keven Gardner, friend and former Publisher to the late Pearson. “To be honest, before talking with Tim, my initial reaction was, ‘probably not.’ This was about six months after Jason’s passing, his mom was in the middle of settling his estate—it just wasn’t something on her radar or mine. But, after I spoke with Tim it was immediately clear that he was a huge fan of Body Bags, that Jason’s work had been a strong influence on him, and that this was something he and Stefano really wanted to do. We talked about possible ideas, and I could see how this could be something special.”
Hack/Slash: Body Bags #1 will hit comic book shops on October 23, but you can get a first look at the covers by Caselli, Seeley, and Darick Robertson, as well as unlettered interior pages, below.
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