Hack/Slash: My First Maniac #3

Issue three of Hack/Slash: My First Maniac delivers a genuinely unsettling cover — a battered, rain-soaked Cassie Hack crouches low in a defensive stance, her spiked collar and red skirt unmistakable, while an enormous leering face looms behind her in the darkness, teeth bared and menacing. The tension between her defiant posture and the hulking presence overhead captures exactly the kind of slasher-horror atmosphere this series does so well. If you've been following Cassie's grim backstory through this miniseries, this penultimate chapter promises to keep the dread cranked up.